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JW. org: "No, we are not a cult. We do not look to any human as our leader."
by Faithful Witness 49 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Crazyguy
nice find on thier website.
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mynameislame
It is easy to not be a cult if you define what a cult is.
Some think of a cult as people who kill pigs and drink their blood naked in time square on new years eve.
Obviously we are not a cult.
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rebel8
Ask a cultist what a cult is, and he'll give you a definition that only includes things his religion is not.
factnet.org has some really interesting descriptions.
Besides legit sources like that, there is also the dictionary. Letting a cultist get away with redefining the word is illogical.
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sd-7
we pattern our worship after that of the first-century Christians
Who you pattern your worship after has nothing to do with whether or not you are a cult. Many cults say they pattern their worship after Jesus--or indeed that they're the only ones who do.
Jehovah's Witnesses do not look to any human as their leader. Rather, we adhere to the standard that Jesus set for his followers when he stated: "Your Leader is one, the Christ."
I'll just use their own words to put the lie to this one.
9/15/10 WT, p.23
In this time of the end, Christ has committed “all his belongings”— all the earthly interests of the Kingdom—to his “faithful and discreet slave” and its representative Governing Body, a group of anointed Christian men. (Matt. 24:45-47) The anointed and their other sheep companions recognize that by following the lead of the modern-day Governing Body, they are in fact following their Leader, Christ.
*** w94 2/15 p. 4 Cults—What Are They? ***
Their devotion to a self-proclaimed human leader is likely to be unconditional and exclusive. Often these leaders boast of having been divinely chosen or even of being themselves divine in nature.
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Spectre
It's astonishing that a watchtower writer could write articles saying, "nope! we're not a cult" without something in the brain saying, "heeeeeeyyyy....waitaminute..."
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ABCXYZ
Marked
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WhoYourDaddy
"We are not a cult."
and Ye doth protest too much.
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Scott77
There are multiple ways they get you to start thinking this way, and believing it is wrong to "stumble" someone else with anything they might not like to hear about their own religion 12 I was never baptized, but my sister cut me off because I asked her a couple of tough questions she could not answer. Faithful Witness Sometimes they will say do not bring reproach on Jehovah's holy name. To me that is about as same as equating themselves to God. These people are so cunning and cultish that they are not even aware of that. You cannot see when you are in the 'box' Outlaw, as usual, you are awesome. These guys are 7-popes for a reason. 7 stands for completeness as a whole, refers to their defination in that red revealation book.
Scott77
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wasblind
" Are Jehovah's Witnesses a sect or a cult ?
Some define sect to mean a group that has broken away from an established religion. Others apply the term to a group that follows a particular human leader or teacher "____Reasoning Book page 202
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Wake up people
Russell founded his own brand of religion because
" He simply could not accept the commonly understood teachings of the churches " ____Proclamers Book page 43
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" They do not look to any human, but rather to Jesus Christ as thier leader "____Reasoning book page 202
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False.
They look to a group of men that represent " One body " (singular) that governs
And disobeys Jesus command in ACTS 1:8 that says to be witnesses of him
In 1931, a new human leader called Rutherford took over. Rutherford said they would be Jehovah's Witnesses instead
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"A cult is a religion that is unorthodox "___Reasoning Book page 202
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No birthdays or holidays allowed, They Shun loved ones , No blood , Avoid the word GOOD LUCK
God Bless, the Holy Cross, Lucky Charm Cereal, and don't vote
If you were to ask the general population
they would most definitley say that the Jehovah's Witnesses are unorthodox
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"Thier worship is a way of life not a ritual devotion "____Reasoning book page 202
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False. Thier ritual devotions are forced into thier daily lives
Thursday night ritual
field service ritual
sunday ritual
Assemblies and conventions
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" nor isolate themselves from the rest of society. They live and work in the midst of other people "____Reasoning book page 202
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The Jehovah's Witness mantra " We keep separate from the world "
The Witness that work beside you, live beside you, and talk nicely to you
will not include you in thier social circle unless they are trynna recruit you
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