How do you prove it though? What evidence do you think is required to confirm that you have the "right" one?
You are forgetting that there is a master deceiver who rules this world. (1 John 5:19) His MO has been consistent throughout time.
He is a counterfeiter, making fake copies of worship systems that confuse people and lead them down the wrong path. (Matthew 7:13-14) He knows what humans want.
He plays on their weaknesses, and gives them what they want, as opposed to what God wants and what Jesus taught. The road to life is "cramped and narrow".....not many want to choose the hard way.....so if you make the road to death look like the road to life by making it easy....bingo!
These are the "weeds" that Jesus said would be planted by the devil.....a counterfeit of the original. Why would Jesus say that "few" will choose the right road? Think about it.
That is just what satan wants people to think. He creates confusion because they are all so similar.....yet the small differences don't really matter. But the way Jesus explains it.....it isn't the similarities, but the complete difference that reveals the true faith from the corrupted fakes....the "wheat" from the "weeds".
JW's have no major doctrinal beliefs that agree with Christendom's.
We are nothing like them. This is how I know I have personally made the right choice. I checked out every teaching that I grew up with and realised that Jesus never taught any of them. Those differences are all supported by the Bible's overall teachings.
I can show you that this is just not true.....any more than Christianity was a branching or splintering of Judaism.
Jesus did not come to create a new religion.....he came to clean up the old one. The majority chose to stick with their comfortable old form of worship....so confident that they could condone Jesus' death on the say so of their corrupt leaders. (Matthew 27:25)
Daniel foretold that another 'cleansing' of God's worship would take place in "the time of the end". (Daniel 12:9-10)
We believe that we represent the fulfilment of that prophesy. Others may disagree.
We are not a breakaway from any of Christendom's denominations, but have walked away from all of them by cleaning out false beliefs, cleansing ourselves of false religious teachings and practices, and refining our worship by removing so many impurities that were added over many centuries.
This thread is showing that the "mother church" has led her 'daughters' into false worship. Like the disciples in the first century, who had to remove themselves from a system of worship that had been corrupted by men, we have to do that too. (Revelation 18:4) The same devil has never changed his MO. He knows what works.
That is what we believe.
There is indeed a master deceiver at work in the world, who has convinced his bride the mother church, from whose spirit=teachings the JWs and the majority of Christian denominations were spawned, that Jesus was an eternal God, who existed before the creation of the cosmos and who, some two thousand years ago, came down to earth and entered the womb of some supposed virgin and created for himself a human-like body in which he could walk the earth disguised as a descendant of Adam.
The good ol' church which was established by King Constantine, was established according to the plane of God. But, does that make it righteous?
Many were the leaders of Nations that God rose up as his rod to chastise his son "Israel," the actions of God were righteous, the actions of those leaders whose hated of Israel God used to accomplish his will, were not righteous.
Acts 2: 23; In accordance with his own plan God had already decided that Jesus would be handed over to you; and you killed him by letting sinful men crucify him. Does this mean that the act of Judas's betrayal, which was in accordance with God's plan, was a righteous act? The act according to God's plan, is justified in the end result, but does that justify the intent of Judas?
Zechariah 11: 12-17; speaks of the plan of God, to raise up a worthless shepherd, to guide his stubborn flock after they had valued him (As seen in his obedient servant Jesus, who he had filled with his spirit) at 30 pieces of silver. This worthless shepherd that God rose up to fulfil his purpose, is the church of Constantine, who, with her daughter bodies have spread their misleading teaching throughout the earth, which was the will of God, that the minds of the people should be made dull, their eyes blind, and their ears deaf to the truth, otherwise, to receive the great reward that is offered to those who are able to win the victory, they would have turned to God while still in their sins, and he would have to have forgiven them.
Christ the anointed one whose spirit filled the body of his earthly host body, “Jesus” used that body established by Constantine, to fulfil the mission that was given to him by God. Isaiah 6: 8-19; (8) Then I heard the Lord say, “Whom shall I send? Who will be our messenger?” I answered, “I will go! Send me!” (9) So the Lord told me to go and give the people this message: “No matter how much you listen, you will not understand. No matter how much you look, you will not know what is happening.” Then He said to me, “Make the minds of these people dull, their ears deaf and their eyes blind, so that they cannot see or hear or understand, If they did, they might turn to me and be healed.”
Matthew 13: 14; The reason I use parables in talking to the people, is that they will look, but will not see, and they listen, but hear not, nor understand. (14) So the prophecy of Isaiah applies to them; “This people will listen and listen, but not understand; they will look and look, but not see, because their minds are dull, and they have stopped up their ears and have closed their eyes. Otherwise, their eyes would see, their ears would hear, their minds would understand, and they would turn to me says God, and I would heal them, (While still in their sins.)
Again, the intent of the Lord is righteous, in raising up the worthless shepherd, and given them over to believe the lie, in order that only those who would endure in the truth of his word, would win the victory, while the intent of the church was to seek out and devour and become bloated on the fat of the lambs of God’s flock.
O! You shepherd of the darkness who claims God sent him out
And even though we know that’s true, that fact I wouldn’t flout
For God commanded Zechariah, “Throw my wages ‘cross the floor,
Those thirty bits of silver, for I’ll guide this flock no more
A worthless shepherd now I’ll raise to guide this stubborn flock
And he will be a useless one, of him I’ll take no stock
For he’ll not feed my little ones, nor search for them that’s lost
But he eats the meat of the fattest sheep. And their hoofs? He tears them off
That worthless shepherd, he is doomed for abandoning my flock
His power, will I destroy by war, his arm will wither dry, then drop
And his right eye will I turn Blind, that’s why he’s never seen
The passage where I speak of him, Zechariah eleven—twelve to seventeen.
Zechariah 13: 7, The Lord Almighty says, “Wake up Sword, and attack the shepherd who works for me! Kill him, etc.
All bodies must die then go off into judgment, even the religious bodies that have burned the pagans at the stake, who have murdered, how many thousands of women, who were accused by their husbands as witches, knowing that the church who forbade them to divorce their wives would burn or drown them as witches instead. And how many atrocities were perpetrated during the inquisition? There is not enough room in this entire forum to record the sins of the church of Constantine which has fulfilled the purpose for which God allowed it to be established.
But now has come the time for her to be judged, and no matter how righteous we become in the twilight of our years, no matter how repentant we are for the sins of our past, and no matter how many tears we shed in the passion of our despair, we must all pay the blood price for the mistakes of our past, even those whose are judged while alive and the elements of their physical bodies become so excited they burn up, and disappear. But it is the hope of God, that his children will hear his call and come out of her, and that only the empty shell will be destroyed.
Revelation 18: 4 to 8.
Come out of her my people, do not share in her sin.
You must not share her punishment, her judgment day has come
Her sins are piled to heaven and God recalls her evil ways,
She says I am no widow and I’ll never see the grave
Because of that in just one day disease will strike her down
Plagues and famine she’ll receive until the day she’s burned
You must pay her back two fold for all that she has done
Fill her cup as she filled yours, but make it twice as strong
For all the glory she has claimed and all her luxury
Must be repaid this very day with pain and misery.