Are Jehovah's Witnesses Damned?

Cold Steel

This is really aimed at evangelicals and people of other religions, especially those who left the JWs and are now happily engaged in other Christian faiths. In short, based upon your present religious views, are Jehovah's Witnesses damned to an eternal Hell for their beliefs?

If you're an atheist or agnostic, this question ain't for you. It's only for those who have migrated from "The Truth" to other religious views.

Or...from outsiders who just drop by this site. If you've never been a JW, do you think they are in danger of eternal torment? Or do you think their faith in Christ will carry them through?

undercover

If you're an atheist or agnostic, this question ain't for you.

You just cut the odds of getting any responses by about 90%

breakfast of champions

They're pretty damned hard-headed!

leavingwt

You may find this thread to be of interest.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/182364/1/Question-for-Evangelicals-Are-JWs-Going-to-Hell

Cold Steel

I don't know that 90 percent of this board are atheists/agnostics, but in a way it clears up a lot of questions for them. It also should raise some questions, but that's a question for another time.

I just bought the entire set of HBO's series THE BIG LOVE. I thought it would be more religious, but I'm almost through Season 1 and all it is is a soap opera, and a bad one at that. Anyway, the pastor of my old non-demoninational church (years ago) preached that Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventists were on a greased slide to hell. He said they worshiped a "different Jesus" and becaquse of that they could never accept the one true Jesus who could save them from Hell and gain them entrance to Heaven. It made me wonder just how many false and true Jesuses there are running around the universe is beyond me, but in the past 20 years or so I've been hearing more from evangelicals and Pentacostals about salvation being denied to members of "cults." Meanwhile, Catholics don't particularly hold out much hope for Protestants. They believe the "man of sin" that must come before the return of Jesus is personified in Protestantism...and they aren't too crazy about the Eastern Orthodox and vice versa.

As much as I disagree with the Jehovah's Witnesses, I wonder how much of a leeway there is for salvation if there is a God. The JWs don't hold out much in the way of salvation for anyone besides themselves.

So all this got me to thinking how God views JWs from the points of view of those who left the WTS for another Christian denomination or those who may not have ever been JWs, but who might think of them as a cult. (After all, is there any salvation for cult members if they don't accept the true Jesus in this life?

So if you're a Christian and not a JW, what do you think? Do JWs have to accept a more biblical Jesus to be saved?

Christ Alone

Anyway, the pastor of my old non-demoninational church (years ago) preached that Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventists were on a greased slide to hell.

Yuck...remind me not to go to that one.

God doesn't send anyone to hell/eternal death/or whatever you want to call it. People choose for themselves what they want to do with the evidence or lack of evidence given. Some don't think the evidence is compelling enough or it doesn't make sense to them, so they reject it. That's their right. Some come to a different conclusion (like JWs) and that's fine too.

As far as the Bible is concerned, it says that Jesus is the only way to life. You can accept that or not. The Bible is clear that those that do not accept Jesus will not receive life. (John 14:6)

Some people don't like that it is so exclusive. And that is their right.

I have come to the point in my life that I don't tell anyone that they are going to hell or not be resurrected. It's not my place. I've made my decision that I believe Jesus words and I believe what the Bible says,and personally I believe there is enough evidence for me to believe this.

That being said, I've thought about it over the years. Jehovah's Witnesses DO believe in Jesus. So is that enough? Or do they have to believe in the exact concept of Jesus as other Christians do? I don't remember reading anywhere that unless you believe Jesus is God, you will not be saved. I don't remember reading that if you think that Jesus was a created being that you will not be saved.

That ALSO being said, Paul did warn those not to follow after "another Jesus". Jesus also said that it is only by going directly to HIM that people could be saved, and Jehovah's Witnesses do not do this.

That is why the compelling evidence has caused me to not condemn anyone and say that they are going to hell. Or that they are damned. Or that they are whatever. I believe that it is my job to love everyone (Christians, Islamic, Atheist/Agnostic, Jew, etc...) regardless of their beliefs, and not take it upon myself (as many evangelicals do) to tell them "If you don't believe this specific thing, you are going to hell."

Nambo

I dont belive in Hell or that people are Damned as such.

Having said that, the Bible gives us an example of what happened to the Hebrews when they helped their worship of Jehovah along a little bit by making a Golden calf "to Jehovah", when Moses came down he gave them a choice, many however stuck to their Golden calf and the ground swallowed them up.

Its exactly the same thing in the org, instead of folk going directly to Jesus, they have made this Golden Calf of men called the Governing body which demands worship in itself, though suppossedly as an aid to worshipping Jehovah.

When the greater Moses, Jesus comes along, I expect he will give JWs the same choice, to abandon their Golden Calf worship, and I imagine many of them will not and then the ground will swallow them up.

jam

The minister at my sister church talks about the JW,s

often in his sermon. His view, they work for the devil.

Vanderhoven7

God knows them that are His. He alone knows the heart. Jehovah's Witnesses preach guilt/destruction by organizational non-association. This is abomination. Faith in and relationship with Christ is the only determinate. He who has the Son, has life; he who has not the Son, has not life. I John 5:13

LV101

I certainly hope they're given an opportunity to run from the evil w/tower.

Someone posted within the past 3-4 mos. that two angels would pull the honest-hearted ones out in time --- anyone familiar with a scripture indicating this.

Are Jehovah's Witnesses Damned?

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