Knocking At Your Door
Jehovah’s Witnesses are a religious group which is famous for door-to-door evangelism and condemning birthdays. This is only scratching the surface. First of all, The Jehovah’s Witnesses movement was first founded by Charles T. Russell in the late 1800’s in Pittsburgh. Jehovah’s Witnesses believe in one God. They say that men have sinned, and only the followers of Jehovah will receive salvation, and only 144,000 of these followers will be deemed worthy of Heaven. The rest will live on a peaceful earth for eternity. There is no Hell. The non-believers are merely obliterated. They do not burning for eternity. It is also part of the Jehovah’s Witnesses beliefs to study a magazine called the Watchtower, which is accepted as holy and without error. It is as valid as the scriptures.
I can see what is appealing about Jehovah’s Witnesses. There are many similarities to Christianity. They are monotheistic. They acknowledge Christ’s existence. They are evangelical. They believe in Heaven. It’s also a religion that is peaceful and selfless. There some that do in fact make me wonder about the religion, though. It seems illogical to me that the people believe that a magazine is worthy to be deemed holy. I also think that the first time that the prophecy of the 144,000 failed, the followers really should have picked up on the fact that something was kind of off. I don’t think that God would ever mess with his people like that. But, I really don’t see how I can mock anyone’s religion when I believe that a man died and rose again.