Are There any JW Teaching that you DO Agree With?

by NotFormer 12 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • NotFormer
    NotFormer

    (Apologies for the Typo in the Title. "Teaching" should read "Teachings". 馃檮)

    I misread Vanderhoven7's most recent post as being the above. So I started on that topic, until I realised that I needed to learn how to read properly. 馃檮馃槺 Anyway, here are my answers (feel free to add any, if you can think of them):

    1. That the Christian religion should be based on the Bible alone. (It's up to you how well you think they succeed in their stated goal, of course)

    2. That the Tetragrammaton was better transliterated "Yahweh". (Found in the introduction to their earlier bibles)

    (That's all I got!)

    Vanderhoven7's post that sparked this one: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6244295636418560/what-some-jw-teachings-that-you-do-agree

  • Duran
    Duran
    2. That the Tetragrammaton was better transliterated "Yahweh"

    Why do you think 讬职讛讜指止讛 is better as Yahweh?

    How would you spell this name in English?

    讬职讛讜止砖指讈驻指讟

  • Touchofgrey
    Touchofgrey

    That religions are a snare and a racket.

    That is the only thing that jws got spot on.

    Religion and its teachings are there to control manipulate and coerce people to believe in fictional characters and events and to take people's time and money.

  • NotFormer
    NotFormer

    Duran, this isn't meant to be a thread for argumentation. If you think that the JWs are right about "Jehovah", then write that as your contribution to this thread. 馃檮

    Just the things you personally think the JWs got right, Peeps! Don't argue with other respondents' answers; play nice! 馃惐

  • Duran
    Duran

    There is no argument from me about it. I just was curious to why you thought that.

    The time you spent replying what you did, you could have just written how you would spell the other name.

    And for the purpose of this topic, two things that I agree with JWs on is:

    1. The Northerner/locusts in Joel are not JWs.

    2. The UN has to be given power in the future by the nations before they will turn on BTG, etc.

  • TonusOH
    TonusOH

    I agree that there is no hell for the dead; that death is a state of nonexistence and that 'hell' is a metaphorical reference to the final fate of all people.

  • KerryKing
    KerryKing

    I can't think of any, everything they teach is either twisted, half truth, or outright lie.

  • KalebOutWest
    KalebOutWest

    The problem with this question and some like it is that degrees of what and how Jehovah's Witnesses "believe" things are all strange, weird, and sometimes just downright wrong.

    When I was associating with the Witnesses, some of them believed that the mere musical theme of the Smurf's television cartoon on Saturday mornings was demonic.

    Others believed that some non-Witness homes would remain standing after Armageddon, and they would purposefully check-out terrorities that included the real estate of houses they would like to live in, hoping they could interest the householders to conversations that would invite them in so that they could get a glimpse of the place. If they liked the home, they would ask Jehovah to spare it so they could move into it after the Great Tribulation and the householders had died.

    Others avoided Oreos because there was a rumor that blood was being used by Nabisco to make them, and of course the Bible prohibited one to consume blood...

    Not official beliefs, of course, but ones that shaped how they filtered what came down the Watchtower pipeline and how they applied it.

    I could go on, but you get it. This should be enough.

    The religious foundation of Jehovah's Witness thinking is more than strict theology. It is also cultural. This shapes and, sadly, warps their so-called "Biblical" teachings.

    Thus let us say they believe in the Bible teaching of the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them to do unto you." I believe that. But do I believe it the same way a JW does?

    Jehovah's Witnesses might say they believe in the Golden Rule, but I posit that they do not.

    They often do not view "others" as worthy of the Golden Rule at all times. They are often suspicious, even of members of their own religion.

    First they automatically cancel-out all non-Witnesses as demonized outsiders, so they would not really "do unto them." And often, they would "mark" members in their own congregation. If someone did something they thought "smacked" of "demonic" activity or was just "bad association," a Witness would not "do unto them." And they would not "do unto" anyone in their own family who was "removed" (the "new" term for disfellowshipped), even though this person was their own blood.

    A rabbi I knew once taught that it is not what one claims as creed to be their true beliefs but their actions, especially when they believe no one to be watching. What a person does then, that is their true creed, what they truly believe in. If a person publicly says they do not believe in watching porn, but they watch porn in secret--then they really believe in watching porn.

    So you cannot really say you agree with anything the Witnesses teach or claim to believe. Their view of things is warped. Even when they claim they believe in the "Bible"--the "Bible" they believe in is a warped translation. So you cannot say you believe what they believe--unless you are still one of them.

  • Biahi
    Biahi

    I agree with this statement: The Governing Body is neither inspired nor infallible.

  • a watcher
    a watcher

    I agree with the 2 hopes (paradise/heaven) teaching.

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