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Essay / Who are Jehovah's Witnesses - 1851
I. Introduction Just a few days ago, I saw on the news that a woman who was one of Jehovah's Witnesses had been bitten by a dog while knocking on the door. Even though there was a “Beware of Dog” sign, the woman still decided to go inside. Is their passion for evangelism so strong that they are willing to sacrifice their own safety and accept insults from the people they hit? Through this short presentation, we will attempt to identify the true nature of Jehovah's Witnesses. And since time is limited, we won't go into too much detail but we will try to learn them better so that we are ready to deal with them next time. The Jehovah's Witness began as a Bible study movement in 1870 by Charles Taze Russell. . In 1879, Russell started a magazine called Zion Watchtower and the organization became Zion's Watchtower Track Society in 1884, and in 1908 Russell moved headquarters to Brooklyn, New York, where the organization has been based ever since. After Russell's death in 1916, the organization was led by a man named Franklin Rutherford. Rutherford led the organization with great success, and in 1931 the name "Jehovah's Witnesses" was adopted. Rutherford wrote over a hundred books and fundamentally shaped the theology of the group. Jehovah's Witnesses today publish the magazines "Watchtower" and "Awake" which circulate approximately twenty-seven million and thirty-two million copies respectively. And since Jehovah's Witnesses do not have professional clergy, Watchtower magazine also functions as a means of distributing its doctrine and practice to worshipers around the world. These magazines claim that its content is based on the Bible, but when we study their own Bible and their translated tracts, there have been many misleading interpretations, especially in Christology which makes......at middle of paper ... someone who has more authority than creation. It is divine God. When Jehovah's Witnesses reject the divinity of Jesus Christ by saying that He is created as something other than God, the entire saving authority of Jesus Christ becomes void. The same principle applies to the incarnation of Jesus formulated by Athanasius. If Jesus is not 100% human, then Jesus does not have the right to atone for human sins, because that would be contrary to God's nature of justice. When Jehovah's Witnesses claim that Jesus was God's first creation, inferior in quality to God's creation. himself or describing him as an angel, logic from above leads to the conclusion that there is no salvation in the theology of Jehovah's Witnesses. Thus, the claim of Arius to the Council of Nicea was rejected and the claim of the Jehovah's Witnesses must also be rejected and criticized. Finally more interesting parts.