Essay On Jehovah's Witnesses

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Jehovah’s Witnesses compared to the rest of Christianity They are those strange people who leave pamphlets at your door. They mysteriously want nothing to do with medical procedures involving blood transfusions. They go to strange places called “Kingdom Halls” But who are they really? And what do they believe?
These people are Jehovah’s witnesses. They are a very different debnomination than most of Christianity and often are thought of as strange or foreign by many others. Although they believe in many of the things that other Christians do, such as salvation through grace, God as the ultimate creator, heaven, and Jesus as a savior, they are missing many other core ideas such as that of the trinity, hell, and the full divinity in addition to the full humanity of Christ while he was on this earth. Jehovah’s witnesses are considered to be a type of protestant denomination of
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They deny the existence of Hell. Instead, they think that when all people die, they enter a state of nothingness, kind of like death according to atheists. However, on judgement day, after Satan will be destroyed and God will reign on earth, everyone will “wake up” to be judged. Then the Christians will live forever and the non-Christians will go back to nonexistence. According to Jehovah’s witnesses, there are two different types of Christians: the anointed, and the ordinary Christians, called Jonadab. The 144,000 anointed Christians will live in Heaven with Jesus. The Jonadab will live in a perfect earth. The bible says that anybody can reach Heaven if they believe, not just a few thousand pre-ordained “super-Christians”. Also, the idea that Hell doesn’t exist is a profoundly anti-Christian belief. It takes God, who is all powerful and completely just and makes him into a “santa”-like figure, someone who gives stuff for people being good, but never punishes people for

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