Prayer
Does Jehovah Answer Prayer Today? Can you say with certainty that Jehovah has fulfilled some of your prayers? How do you know? Most religious communities today have prayer rituals or prayer as an essential part of their worship. We have no verifiable possibility of verifying whether someone has actually been answered by their god in…
Spiritism And Wicked Spirits
PRACTICAL OR SECONDARY QUESTIONS What Jehovah’s Witnesses Teach Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that spiritism and wicked spirits are a real and dangerous force that humans must guard against. According to their understanding, Satan and the demons actively seek to influence people through spiritistic practices such as divination, contact with the dead, magic, or occult rituals. Jehovah’s…
Tattoos
Are Tattoos a Sin in the Bible? Jehovah’s Witnesses Teach Jehovah’s Witnesses advise against tattooing with reference to Leviticus 19:28 which says: You shall not scratch yourselves on your body in mourning over someone who has died, and you shall not make tattoo marks on you. I am Jehovah. Otherwise, Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that tattooing…
What Does It Mean To Inherit God’s Kingdom?
Jehovah’s Witnesses teach Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that God’s Kingdom is a government established by God and that God rules from heaven. Jesus is the King of God’s Kingdom. They believe that the Bible constitutes the laws of God’s Kingdom that the inhabitants of that Kingdom must follow. The Bible says God’s Kingdom is a government…
In What Way Is The Bible Inspired?
How Did God Communicate His Word to Bible Writers? In 2 Timothy 3:16, it says that “All scripture is given by inspiration of God.” When the New World Translation uses “inspired”, this is from the Greek adjective θεόπνευστος (theópneustos). The word is composed of theos which means God, and pneo which means to breathe or…
The Resurrection and Life During the 1,000-Year Kingdom
What Jehovah’s Witnesses Teach Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that there are two types of resurrections. 1) 144,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses who will be resurrected to life in heaven and 2) the rest of Jehovah’s witnesses will be resurrected from death to life during the 1,000-year kingdom. Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that they are the successors of what they…
Is Anyone Going To Heaven?
What Jehovah’s Witnesses Believe Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that people in general have the hope of living on a future paradise earth, similar to the Paradise where Adam and Eve lived. They believe that in the future, the original paradise in the garden of Eden will be extended to the entire earth. However, Jehovah’s Witnesses teach…
The Faithful And Discreet Slave
Jehovah’s Witnesses Teach Matthew 24:45 asks, "Who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master has appointed over his domestics to feed them at the proper time?" The Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses, which according to Jehovah’s Witnesses is the faithful and discreet slave, has declared that they are directly directed by holy…
This Generation
What Jehovah’s Witnesses Teach The Bible Students (as Jehovah’s Witnesses were formerly called) were very concerned about the end and created a sense of urgency since the end could come at any time. The Bible Students focused on a statement in Luke 21:24 that the appointed times of the nations will end and then they…
Who Has Power Over the Earth Today?
What Jehovah’s Witnesses Teach Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that Satan the Devil is the real ruler of the world. They base this doctrine on a statement in 1 John 5:19, which says that “the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.” As a supporting argument, Jehovah’s Witnesses refer to Luke 4:6, where…
