It is true that the Jehovah Witness is a
very interesting Christian group, evangelical, and deep in the knowledge of
God’s word. And every member of the group, whether literate or otherwise goes around
propagating with enthusiasm what they know or have been taught.
But in spite of their great ‘insight’ in God’s word, they seem to be so
much carried away by the non essential or less essentials (cons. Matt 23:23). It
should be noted that Jesus and the apostle taught only one thing, and that is
‘repentance toward God and Faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ’. Paul makes it
clear that any teaching outside Jesus’ redemptive death is a non consequential
subject in the school of salvation (1cor. 2:1, 2). I say this because all my
Jehovah Witnesses friends bank so much on these non essentials to the extent of
relegating any person or a group of Christians who does not see the issue with
their eyes.
(Note: my intention here is not to disproof any of Jehovah Witnesses
preoccupations; rather every of their teaching is assumed to be the truth).
Few of such issues or preoccupations are
1)
Where do the dead go? Knowing
what happen to the dead has nothing to do with your eternal destination.
Whether humans die like fowls without soul or goes upward as many believers
believe has no consequence on the person’s destiny eternally.
2)
There is no burning hell. Like I
told a friend, hell fire may just be a state of eternal separation from God
rather than a place with physical fire. This is just an assumption, so its
correctness or otherwise could not change my eternal destination. What matter
is SALVATION FROM SIN.
3)
Paradise would be on earth; the
earth would not be destroy
4)
The sign of true believer is
preaching from house to house so we are the true Christians. The Pharisees
equally preached like Jesus, but just that theirs was hypocritical and done in
sin. If any Christian likes, let him/ her turn the street to his house, as long
as such a one is still making practice of any form of sin, such a one would not
see the kingdom of God.
5)
There is no soul
6)
Saturday is the true day of
worship, not Sunday.
7)
We don’t get involved in
politics, even when many of them have sympathy for some government officials
8)
We don’t celebrate birth day. My
friend would not even dare to accept the cake of his friend who was celebrating
birthday, even when he sips lot and lots of alcohol.
9)
We don’t eat dead animal or
strangled meat, etc, etc
Though it is actually
commendable that Jehovah witnesses could forgo these many things for Christ’s
sake, yet these do not make anybody a Christian. These practices, if they are
observed without banking on them as evidence of salvation. it would be
commendable; but using them as reasons for disparaging other Christian groups
is damning.
PREACH JESUS’ DEATH, AND THAT ALONE, AND STOP
THESE RELIGION. GOD BLESS THE CHURCH! Get my books on
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