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Jehovah's Witnesses

  • There is one Almighty God Jehovah
    • This being is not omnipresent or omnipotent
    • God ruled the universe from the Pleiades star system
      • This teaching was later retracted in 1953 (Watchtower, 11/15/53, p. 703.)
  • Second created being was Michael the Archangel
    • Who then created all 'other' things
    • Michael the Archangel became a human in the form of Jesus.
      • Jesus grew and kept all the laws of God and never sinned
      • When Jesus died, it was not on a cross but on a torture stake where he bore the sins of mankind except Adam's sins
      • Jesus rose from the dead as a spirit, not physically; his body was dissolved and taken by God.
      • during his visitations to people on earth after his body dissolved, he manifested a temporary physical body for them to see and touch
      • Jesus returned invisibly in 1914 and is now reigning in heaven. 
      • When Jesus finally returns physically to earth, which will happen at the time of the Battle of Armageddon, He will set up his earthly 1000-year kingdom.
        • During this 1000-year period, people will be resurrected and have a second chance to receive eternal salvation by following the principles of Jehovah's Organization on earth known as the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
        • After the millennium, those who reject God and His organization will be annihilated; that is, they will cease to exist.
        • the Jehovah's Witness who have faithfully followed God's organization on earth will be saved from eternal annihilation and reside forever on Paradise earth.
  • After Adam sinned, God's paradise on earth was ruined
  • God instituted a system of redemption what lead to Jesus' execution on a stake.
  • God needed to have a visible, theocratic organization on earth to accurately represent Him; thus The Watchtower organization has been formed
    • Charles Taze Russell formally began what is now known as the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society which is run out of Brooklyn, New York
    • In 1879 he sought to popularize his ideas on doctrine so he co-published The Herald of the Morning magazine with its founder, N. H. Barbour; and by 1884 Russell controlled the publication and renamed it The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom and founded Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society (now known as the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society).
    • Russell claimed that the Bible could be only understood according to his interpretations
    • After the death of Russell on Oct. 31, 1916, a Missouri lawyer named Joseph Franklin Rutherford took over the presidency of the Watch Tower Society which was known then as the International Bible Students Association. In 1931 he changed the name of the organization to "The Jehovah's Witnesses."
    • This organization claims to be the only true channel of God's truth on earth today and that it alone can properly interpret God's word since it is the angel directed prophet of God on earth.
  • There have been faithful Jehovah's witnesses who have managed to keep The Truth in spite of the "demonic" doctrine of Trinitarianism that has permeated the Christian church in "Christendom."  
    • Christendom is filled with pastors who are antichrists in churches run by Satan and who support the earthly governments which are all of the devil.  
      • In other words, all of Christianity is false; and only the Jehovah's Witness "theocratic" organization led by several men in Brooklyn, New York, is true.
  • They denying the Trinity
  • They deny of the deity of Christ,
  • They deny the deity and person of the Holy Spirit
  • They deny the existence of hell, and eternal conscious punishment in hell. 
  • They deny Jesus' physical resurrection
  • They deny salvation by grace through faith.
  • Heaven is a place for a special group of 144,000 Jehovah's Witnesses who are the only ones who are "born again" and who alone are allowed to take communion in their annual communion service.
  • When you study with the Jehovah's Witnesses, you agree to attend five meetings a week where you are taught from Watchtower literature or only literature that which agrees with the Watchtower societies teachings.  You cannot be baptized until you have studied their material for at least six months and have answered numerous questions before a panel of elders.
  • If anyone was to leave the Jehovah's Witness organization, they are considered an apostate and are to be shunned.
  • The New World Translation is the Watchtower organization's translated and published bible tailored to fit their teachings.
  • The Jehovah's Witnesses consider themselves to be Christians because they believe they are serving the true and living God.

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