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how was jw started and who was it founded by? thanks!
Jesus started a sect in 29 CE called "the way" by recruiting members to promote and to preach the "Good News" about his Father's Kingdom.
"Jesus said to him: “I am (the way) and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."(John 14:6)
"But Saul, still breathing threat and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, in order that he might bring bound to Jerusalem any whom he found who belonged to(The Way), both men and women." (Acts 9:1-2)
"we have found this man (Paul) a pestilent fellow and stirring up seditions among all the Jews throughout the inhabited earth and a spearhead of the sect of the Naz·a·renes´(Acts 24:5)
"I do admit this to you, that, according to(the way) that they call a ‘sect,’ in this manner I am rendering sacred service" (Acts 24:14)
This Sect that Jesus started all but died out in around 300 CE when the Great Apostasy began and the sect became dormant but was revived in the 1860's. A small group of Bible Students were studying God's Word and also doctrines of various denominations. Through intense study they came upon a prophecy that led to the year 1914. Little did they know that the prophecy in Thessalonians was about to unfold in front of their own eyes. AFTER the man of lawlessness is revealed, the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ was to come! The man of lawlessness takes many shapes and forms, we use the term "Christendom" to reveal this man of lawlessness.
(2 Thessalonians 2:1-12) However, brothers, respecting the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we request of YOU 2 not to be quickly shaken from YOUR reason nor to be excited either through an inspired expression or through a verbal message or through a letter as though from us, to the effect that the day of Jehovah is here.
3 Let no one seduce YOU in any manner, because it will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness gets revealed, the son of destruction. 4 He is set in opposition and lifts himself up over everyone who is called “god” or an object of reverence, so that he sits down in the temple of The God, publicly showing himself to be a god. 5 Do YOU not remember that, while I was yet with YOU, I used to tell YOU these things?
6 And so now YOU know the thing that acts as a restraint, with a view to his being revealed in his own due time. 7 True, the mystery of this lawlessness is already at work; but only till he who is right now acting as a restraint gets to be out of the way. 8 Then, indeed, the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will do away with by the spirit of his mouth and bring to nothing by the manifestation of his presence. 9 But the lawless one’s presence is according to the operation of Satan with every powerful work and lying signs and portents 10 and with every unrighteous deception for those who are perishing, as a retribution because they did not accept the love of the truth that they might be saved. 11 So that is why God lets an operation of error go to them, that they may get to believing the lie, 12 in order that they all may be judged because they did not believe the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness.
In 1879 Brother Charles Russell started to publish a magazine called the "Watchtower" and published bible truths that he and others were learning. The Bible Truths were so powerful that others started coming out of the world which belongs to the man of lawlessness. As told many many times by the Watchtower, the Son of Man who is Jesus Christ will soon remove the son of lawlessness.
In the 1930's as the bright light got brighter and brighter and Bible Truths kept pouring out, the peace loving sect is now named "Jehovah Witnesses," which fulfilled a final prophecy of our time.
(Isaiah 52:5-6)“And now, what interest do I have here?” is the utterance of Jehovah. “For my people were taken for nothing. The very ones ruling over them kept howling,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “and constantly, all day long, my name was being treated with disrespect. For that reason my people will know my name,"
(Isaiah 43:10) “YOU are my witnesses,” is the utterance of Jehovah
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Born Agains preach that Christ is "in" them. If Christ is God as they claim, aren't they making themselves to be gods? "You must not have any other gods against my face." (Exodus 20:3) Oh, they insist Christ is "in" them, so they perform great signs and wonders. Have they never read when Jesus stated, "For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will give great signs and wonders so as to mislead, if possible, even the chosen ones." (Matthew 24:24) Derrick Holland preaches that he was "healed". If Christ is already "in" them, why are they prophesying that Jesus is coming back in the flesh? "Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’ And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew YOU! Get away from me, YOU workers of lawlessness." (Matthew 7:22-23)
Experience
Trinitarians often get offended when the term "gods" are used when describing their trinity or their multi-personality triune or triad of gods. However, they often use the Hebrew term (Elohim) to provide proof that the trinity or a multiple of gods exists, therefore, proving themselves merely hypocritical because Elohim when translated means "gods" in reference to angels or even human judges. They claim the three angels that visited Abraham were in fact angels but Jesus was never an angel, hypocritical isn't it? Since the Trinity doctrine claims “three separate persons” make up One God, not that, the three Gods are One God. Isn’t God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit a contradiction? "And I saw three unclean inspired expressions [that looked] like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the wild beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet." (Rev 16:13)
Trinity Debunked! http://www.youtube.com/user/BroRando1
Organizations
“I fully support, acknowledge and cooperate with *The Faithful Steward and Its' Governing Body* of Jehovah’s Witnesses.” I am property of the "Faithful and Discreet Slave" that Jesus, my brother, has appointed over his belongings. This Slave is Jehovah's Earthly Organization known Worldwide as "Jehovah's Witnesses". When the World organizations act against God's chosen people after Babylon has been destroyed, Jehovah will slaughter those who are touching the pupils of his eyes. Even though Babylon the Great is spoken as a woman and she has fallen in (Rev. 14:8), the sacred secret is that she is not a woman at all, but the World of False Religion that will be utterly destroyed by the personal hand of Jesus Christ as (King Abaddon) in the coming Great Tribulation never to be found again! (Matthew 24:14)
Publications
Derrick Holland is a false prophet spreading Christendom's "man-made doctrines" from Catholicism. (Rev 16:13-14) Watch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJWYxdOa3QM&feature=related) The Day has come that the oppossers and apostates will no longer get ANSWERS to their questions. "At that time they will keep calling me, but I shall not answer; they will keep looking for me, but they will not find me, for the reason that they hated knowledge, and the fear of Jehovah they did not choose." (Proverbs 1:28-29) Jehovah has turned his attention to the nations to gather a people for his NAME.(Acts 15:14) Here's a QUESTION you can ask trinitarians since they claim Jesus is 100% God and 100% man. What happened to their "three person god"? So if Jesus is 100% God, then he really never died 100% because God cannot die. Isn't that being deceptive? Really! How can the Father be greater than Jesus who they claim to be 100% God? (John 14:28) THE END OF FALSE RELIGION IS NEAR! http://www.watchtower.org/e/kn37/article_01.htm
Education/Credentials
Questions for trinitarians: Are you a child of God or a child of the second hypostasis of the Triune God? How can Jesus be the Triune God itself in John 1:1 if he is supposed to be the second hypostasis of the Triune God? What happened to your "three person" god in John 1:1? When Jesus was praying to the Father as the only true God in (John 17:3) was he really praying to the "three person" god? How come the Triune god or any hypostasis is never mentioned in the Bible? Did you know hypostasis means "personality" and not a person as falsely taught by trinitarians? Are you saying Hebrews 5:8 is Wrong? "Although he was a Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered;" Are you saying according to your doctrine, it should read "Although he was (GOD), he learned obedience from the things he suffered;"?? See how silly they are? They spend all their time preaching a different Jesus making him into God that they deny Jesus as Jehovah's Christ, his chosen one. The KJV states an erroneous and false scripture that "God manifested in the flesh". Really? Notice they don't teach Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh! "For many deceivers have gone forth into the world, persons not confessing Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist." (2 John 7) Oh, It get's worse, right down Satanic, trinitarians and born agains falsely preach "ego eimi" means God. So here we see Paul use the (I am). "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief." (1 Timothy 1:15 KJV) Are they really preaching that Paul is God or that God is the chief sinner of all? Christendom teaches we are saved by "Grace" not judged by works. But what does the Bible Really teach?? "hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works." (Rev 20:13)
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Christendom is False Christianity, including born agains that hold to the man-made doctrines of the trinity, immortal soul, and eternal hellfire. These teachings are not new but are found in paganism 2,500 years before Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Adoption of Pagan beliefs and pagan idols are rejected by Jehovah Witnesses for what they are. Lies. WE don't follow man as Christendom follows those fellas at the Council of Nicene. No matter what part of Christendom you may be or not be, all parts worship the same Roman Dogma founded by Constantine in 325 CE. If you follow religion, you will see that all religions participate in politics, war mongering, and the killing of one another because of race or nationality with one exception, (Jehovah Witnesses) who are no part of the world and have a multi-national brotherhood. JW's have even went to prison for refusing to kill while Christendom priests of the same faith prayed for both sides to be victorious in killing their own spiritual brothers in different countries. http://www.jw-media.org/gbl/gbl04e.htm
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Paul preached to some of the scribes that he seen an angel and that this spirit was in fact Jesus in his true form even though premature. (Acts 9:3-5, Acts 23:9, Rev 22:16) The KJV is a "Doctrine of Mistranslations." Few know the KJV as well as JW's do. Theos when translated to English without the definite article means (a god) as it is written in Acts 28:6. Theologians are in deep error in their rejection that (theos) can't be used in the feminine sense of "the only-begotten god" in as in John 1:18. Notice the feminine noun of theos is (a god) since Jesus was begotten. I guess those theologians never looked up the Strong's Concordance at (http://concordances.org/greek/2316.htm) Funny how the KJV removed theos from that scripture also. The KJV, simply a book of evolution that Christendom's Translators can't get right, even changing terminology in John 1:18 by refusing to translate theos as "the begotten god" in the Greek scripture. LOL
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