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Do you view Jehovah's Witnesses as a cult?

They don't make you drink cool-aid or anything but I was affiliated with them since birth, I'm now 45 and they stole my parents from me about 30 years ago. So yeah.

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  • 4 weeks ago

    No, not really, but as you point out they try to destroy families.

  • TeeM
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    I just love one sided arguments.

    'Jehovah's Witnesses stole my parents' sounds terrible and will get the emotional response you desire to upbuild your actions.

    I would love to hear what your parents have to say about this.

    I would guess, 'The world stole our son from us'.

    I would guess, that around the age of 15, you left your parents to become part of the world.

    I would guess you, unlike Moses, was seduced by the pleasures of this world.

    (Hebrews 11:25) “25 choosing to be mistreated with the people of God rather than to have the temporary enjoyment of sin,”

    In answer to your question 'Do I view Jehovah's Witnesses as a cult?'

    No, they are true Christians striving to live by godly standards in all facets of their lives.

    No, they follow Christ in all the things Jesus has commanded us.

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  • User
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    Yes

    because

    all religions and religious sects satisfy the standard English definition of the word "cult".

    But I don't call them "cult" except in questions such as yours

    because some use the word in a derogatory sense.

  • No, they are true Christians, living their lives according to the Bible, the word of God. Because Christendom has strayed so far from the teachings of God they think true Christians are a cult. Soon, they will learn the truth but only too late.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    4 weeks ago

    Yes, absolutely I view Jehovah's Witnesses as a cult, an extremely deceitful cult.  And they're experts at conditioning their lemmings not to question the group's dogma or leadership.  If the JW Governing Body told the people at the kingdom halls that the Bible said to eat nothing but grapes for a month, and then to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, they'd do it.  AND they'd do it without even checking the Bible to see for themselves.

    The JW rank & file are usually decent, ordinary people.  But they are complicit in allowing themselves to be deceived by Satan and their venal, cruel Governing Body.  

  • Anonymous
    4 weeks ago

    "Jehovah's witness" (JW) leads to torments in hell because it rejects the truth that the Lord Jesus Christ is God and because JW adds works to salvation.  JW also uses a book that isn't the Bible.  The true Bible is the King James Bible.  So get completely away from JW.  Here is what you need to believe:  The Lord Jesus Christ is God, and He loves you.  Believing in the Lord Jesus Christ means being forgiven all sins past and future, and means going to heaven and not hell.  Death leads to immediate heaven or hell, and it is too late to be saved, after death.  All believers still sin.  See 1 John 1:8.  To be in heaven and not hell, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is God and who died on the cross and shed His blood to pay for all of our sins in full, and who was buried, and who resurrected from the dead.  The only way to avoid hell is by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, without adding any of your own works.  See Romans 4:5, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, and John 3:16.

  • Anonymous
    4 weeks ago

    All religions are cults.

  • 4 weeks ago

    Yes, they formed to get out of buying presents for their kids birthdays and at Christmas.

  • 4 weeks ago

    Its a particularly nasty sect of the cult of Christianity.

    Religious child indoctrination is a form of abuse and should be outlawed.

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