Ask about Jehovah's Witnesses (beliefs, choice, Satan, Adam and Eve)

[robtex]

was jesus crucified on a pole or a cross?

[cardero]

Witnessof Jah if you need some assistance with some of the questions other members post, I may be able to lend a hand. I may not REMEMBER the specific Bible scriptures but I did not forget the principals.

[Rex]

Originally Posted by WitnessofJah

I think you're confusing this teaching with the Mormons. The Mormons believe something along those lines, but definitley not Jehovah's Witnesses. In fact, we welcome any person from any ethnic background to join us. Never in our history have we discriminated against anybody.

Yes that could be right.. I get confused from time to time with denominatinos.. UGH.. Sorry .

Rex

[_salam_]

What are your views about Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). I realize that you don't recognize Him as a prophet, but what are the reasons why and what are your views about the revelation He recieved from God.

[Rozs]

What is the real name of God? I heard that there is no letter "J" in the hebrew characters. Can you pls. explain it for me.
Thanx!
God Bless!!!

[Rozs]

When God created the heavens and the earth and all the creatures in the planet, was He alone? If not who is with him?

Thanx!!!

[WitnessofJah]

Originally Posted by Druidus

Do you believe that men should never shave, or cut their hair? Do you believe that people should be stoned for swearing? Do you believe that eating such foods as pork or shrimp should be punishable by death? Do you believe that working on a saturday should be punishable by death? Do you believe that touching (in any way) a women who is undergoing her menstruation should be punishable by stoning?

All those particular laws you have just mentioned were part of the Mosaic law of Israelite times. These laws reflect the tradititions, cultures and protocols of ancient Israelite times - not the times of now (a 21st century society). Those laws no longer became applicable when Jesus came to Earth, because a better set of laws replaced them - the laws of Christ. God promised: "Look! There are days coming, . . . and I will conclude with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant; not one like the covenant that I concluded with their forefathers." The Ten Commandments—the nucleus of the Mosaic Law—were written on stone tablets. But of the new covenant, Jehovah said: "I will put my law within them, and in their heart I shall write it."—Jeremiah 31:31-34.

What is the purpose of this new covenant (new law)? It is to produce a nation of kings and priests to bless all mankind (a future hope). The Mosaic Law covenant never produced this nation in the fullest sense, for Israel as a whole rebelled and lost out on their opportunity. This new covenant would be more than just reading off of a stone of tablets, it would be a set of laws that we could use on a personal level, a law that we could use to look deep into our heart to become a better worshiper of God.

2 Timothy 3:16 still holds true however. All word "is inspired of God and applicable". Even though we may not follow the Mosaic laws today, we can still learn from them. They show us the organization he had among his people, how much justice God has, and how he delt with his people.

Most strongly, why do you believe that people should not recieve blood, if in need of it?

This is a very wide topic, and I may start a thread on it to go through every avenue and misconception. For now, I'll keep it short but sweet: As Jehovahs Witnesses, we believe that you should accept the Bible in full or not at all. In the Bible, Blood is a very sacred thing to God, and he say Genesis 9:4 says: "Only flesh with its soul—its blood—YOU must not eat., Leviticus 17:14 says : "For the soul of every sort of flesh is its blood by the soul in it. Consequently I said to the sons of Israel: "YOU must not eat the blood of any sort of flesh, because the soul of every sort of flesh is its blood. Anyone eating it will be cut off." And finally, a NT prohibition (Acts 15:29): "To keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication.. This is the main skeletal structure of why we don't accept blood - because the Bible says we should'nt. I will elaborate more on this at a later time.

Is it not circular logic to say that the bible is inspired by God, merely because the bible says so? How is this a proof?

If I write a couple pages and then, at the end, write that what I wrote was divinely inspired, does that make it so?

The reason why that is not true is because the Bible cannot be considered a normal book. The Bible is not inspired because it says so, but because of it's works and fruitage. Druidus, name me another book which was written over a period of 1000's of years, has prophecies which have come true 100's of years before they were told, were written by prophets who lived in different time periods who had never met eachother but the Bible's message still remains harmonious, was scientifically correct in an era where scientific knowledge was poor, and has archaelogical evidence to support it's message?

[WitnessofJah]

Originally Posted by Ronald

You came here saying ask Me a question! I asked and you don't answer! Do you want to debate me? That would be a change in venue, wouldn't it?
I can read English, so when you answer,givea complete an answer, not just another verse. I can read! I have read the Bible.
If you want to ask the questions start another thread and ask away. Here, I want you to answer my questions. Who are the ones, who are in the first resurrection? I personally don't know of anyone who has been beheaded, no one has found out what the mark is. Nor the beast, so you may have bowed down to it, are you sure you haven't?

Ronald, I have already answered your question! Jehovah's Witnesses teach from the Bible, and nowhere else. These scriptures are the word of God and should be the primary source of an arguement. I don't give my "own personal opinon" - I give the Bible's opinion.

In Laymans terms, the people in the first resurrection are the Anointed of christ who have been specially chosen by him to serve him in heaven for a 1000 years as kings. These are the only people on earth who will go to heaven. The rest of the humans resurrections' will remain here on earth to live forever on a paradise earth.

[WitnessofJah]

Originally Posted by true blood

I agree with alot of what you have posted. However I was wondering if you are counting the Rapture as one of the resurrections. Personally I believe the Rapture will be different from the first and second resurrection. What do you think?

As Jehovah's Witnesses, we don't believe in the rapture. The word "rapture" does not appear in the Bible a single time. The idea of a rapture was first thought out when 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 was taken out of context and was misunderstood. If this were to be true, the rapture theory would contradict much of the Bible, however this is not the case. The Bible clearly states the hope for mankind (apart from the anointed), that for all humans, our hope is eternal life on earth under the rule of God’s Kingdom.

[WitnessofJah]

Originally Posted by robtex

was jesus crucified on a pole or a cross?

A stake (a form of pole) but not a cross.

In classical Greek the word (stau·ros´) rendered "torture stake" in the New World Translation primarily denotes an upright stake, or pole, and there is no evidence that the writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures used it to designate a stake with a crossbeam.

The Bible clearly states (Acts 5:30): "The God of our forefathers raised up Jesus, whom YOU slew, hanging him upon a stake."

Jesus died a Roman death, and back in Jesus time, it was a customary Roman procedure to inpale humans by hanging then on a stake - there is even archaelogical to support this, since "stakes" have been found on ancient Roman settlements.

Here is the definition of the "stake" in the dictionary: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/resu...archword=stake