The Jehovah 's Witness Religion

One point he made is that “if anything is without a cause, then is the world as God.” He is saying that if there is a first cause, why not is it the world but should be God? Further, if something can be the first cause, why should we need God, why the first cause is not the world? In addition, Russell stated, “the philosophers and the men of science have got going on cause.” Based on this quote, his argumentation and logic in the first cause argument are based on science or the chain of causes is based on the validity of science. The next point that Russell made is that “if everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause” (2). Russell remarks that, if everything must have a cause, then God cannot be uncaused. Nothing can come from nothing and everything has some form of beginning. Russell briefly explains the first cause argument, and then objects it by Mill's words and suggest the further question “who made God?” According to Mill and Russell, there cannot be a first cause. Furthermore, Russell stated, “if there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God.” So he is saying that God and the world has equal amount of power if there can be anything without a

By 1917 Church Of God In Christ congregations were organized in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn. Evangelists were also at work in Harlem. In 1935 a storefront church was opened at 137th and Lenox Avenue, placing Bishop Mason’s message before the largest urban black population in America.

It was formerly the south Presbyterian Church and Sunday school building on Seneca St. in South Buffalo. It’s a 22,000 square foot red brick building that they now use for spiritual retreats and functions, which include prayer services and Bible Study. The large building also provides shelter; dormitory style sleeping on couches, carpeted flooring or provided mats. Groups have to prepare their own meals in fully functional kitchens. Retreats are also available to be held by other people if you rent the facility for a certain fee. The House hosts out of state youth groups who come to the area to do work, such as Habitat for Humanity along with various other

It is the longing of Jehovah's Witnesses that you will be familiar with them. You may have met them as neighbors and fellow workers or in other events of life. You may have seen them on the street, recommending their magazines to onlookers. Or you may have spoken briefly with them at your door.

In regards to religious beliefs in multiple cultures, it is to be understood that the commands of God portray goodness regardless if the command is ethically wrong or right. God’s commands shall be portrayed as morally right by those who believe in Him. The theory of knowing that God exists is more preferred than disbelief. This leads to believing in a higher power which motivates people to have faith in all commands from Him. Due to DTC, all God’s commands would be morally correct; therefore the actions that individuals express would be morally right as well. Furthermore, due to individuals obeying all commands, since He is a benefactor, He would show guidance through hope during certain circumstances. The Jehovah Witness religion demonstrates

I have heard that Jehovah’s Witnesses were a cult, not Christians. I have several occasions that I held brief conversations with those who knocked on my front door. Mostly, our conversation never gone far because I had preconceptions of them being brainwasher who enforce their believe system. However, I have been wondering about Jehovah’s Witnesses believe system ever since I meet a family across our house. After seven years, I learned to admire their family structure, living principle and friendly approach toward everyone. We had a couple of opportunities to chat about the bible, which I found it very interesting we had similar with several life principles. I always wondered about the negative comments I hear about Jehovah’s Witness people

Jehovah’s believe in something called The Great Crowd. These are the subjects of the kingdom ruled by Jesus and the 144,000. They will live on forever in the new earth if they have chosen to obey God. The Kingdom of God that they believe in is a government that rules over earth from heaven. When Jesus became king he kicked Satan and his evil angels out of heaven and they were sent to inhabit the earth. This action they believe is the cause for war, crime, and the other bad things happening today in our world. All of these things indicate Jesus’ reign and that we are in our last days. They also believe that after 1,000 years of the Kingdom of God’s rule, Satan and his demons will be released for a short amount of time. After that, they and their human followers will be destroyed.

As we walked in there were a lot of differences I noticed immediately. One of the architectural features I notices was this wooden structure on the wall filled with plaques. These represented members of their community who have died in years past, it was called the Yahrtzit. The sanctuary had pews to sit on which looked like curved wooden benches. There was also the stand of podium which in Jewish culture is known as the Bimah. At the head of the church was an arc known as Aron Kodesh. Which is where the Torah is. What is interesting is right above it there is a little light called the Ner Tamid, which means eternal light and it always stays on. As you sit in the pews there are prayer books behind each seat so you can fallow along with the readings. The book we used to fallow along was called the Siddur. What was nice was the prayers were in Hebrew with an English translation so I could fallow along. The rabbi would yell out the page number that we are on during prayer but if you were to miss it, I had the guide that I got when I entered the lobby so that was extremely helpful. In the middle of the service we jump to a Torah reading, so we had to put away the first book and then open what’s called a Chumash. Each week they read a different part of the Torah that way each year they read through the entire cycle.

Russell began to develop a pacifist attitude. Pacifism is a movement against war, violence, or militarism. During the war Russell stated “When the war came I felt as if I heard the voice of God. I knew that it was my business to protest, however futile protest might be. My whole nature was involved.” (F-8) He used this as a sort of calling to bring forth his beliefs and gain followers to resist the war. He suggested that the Great Powers of Europe were blind by their government and Russell said “he was quite unable to accept the superficial melodramatic explanations of the catastrophe which were promulgated by all the belligerent governments.”(F-6) Russell was a major peace activist who added on to the era of modernism. After the war he was disliked by the church because he stated that “if God exists, it was surely impossible that an all powerful, all knowing, being would be so vain as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.” (M-3) In this statement Russell questioned the will of God and this made it very hard for him to attract followers outside of his own group. Russell had a meaningful cause but he did not have enough followers to make an impact as the church had done for so many years. Although Russell was completely against warfare and violence he knew that war among humans was inevitable as he concluded that “fighting and killing are among the natural

Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher and mathematician throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries. He wrote in many philosophical areas, including epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics, with some of his most notable works being Theory of Knowledge, Why I’m Not a Christian, and In Praise of Idleness. He also worked with mathematics and logic, penning Principia Mathematica and Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 for various pieces of writing he had published. He was also very openly pacifist, and even went to jail in 1918 for publicly encouraging anti-war ideology during World War I. Russell is widely considered to be an incredibly influential thinker and writer.

Lewis states, man cannot know a crooked line without first having an idea of a straight one. Also, if we were left alone in darkness without ever seeing light we would not know it was dark. The analogy fits, so it is with morality which I believe based on those things has to come from a creator .Moving from the creation argument, Russell then moves to the teachings of Christ, gives reasons why they are flawed and decides for himself that Jesus Christ was a good man with a high level of morality and knowledge, yet not the greatest man ever. He eventually states to him Buddha and Socrates outrank Jesus. I find this ranking system irrelevant so instead I will state why he misses the truth about Jesus and why he contradicts himself on it. To begin with many of Russell's claims about Christ aren't even supported by Christians in the first place. Russell makes many bold and proud statements about verses in scripture that Christians run from, when the truth is all Russell has did is taken symbolic verses, verses that were meant to not be literal and made them literal. He also claims Jesus was a great thinker and man yet not the best. The thing is Jesus himself did not allow that

Certain theories and laws were not looked into further until later because it was simpler to accept that God made everything work the way he wanted. I am not really sure what Russell means by his argument, but what I took from it was that if God had a reason for all the laws he created then why is it that only these certain laws were made? Why are there not laws that involved a similar planet to ours? Or laws regarding human nature, why are some people greedy and others

After a dramatic encounter with Jesus Christ during his senior year of college, Jamey began a process of seeking the Lord that led him from his career in business and into preaching, ministry, and church planting. In 1993, Jamey and his wife Kim planted Christ Fellowship along with eleven other friends and their children. Their vision was pretty straightforward…they wanted to see and be the church that they read about in the book of Acts. They believed (and still do) that the church is called to be a life-giving, multiplying, reproducing, Christ-manifesting, multi-ethnic community of God's people who are joining together for God's worship, God's mission, and God's glory in the power of the Spirit.

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The messianic synagogue is located in a part of Tampa that seemed to be quite, I saw people enjoying brunch on outdoor patios of restaurants, and some quaint boutique clothing shops. The building itself is located off the main road with a parking area on either side of the building. The building was large and painted white, and it appeared that there were two buildings connected, to the left was a sign that read House of Hope, and to the right, Shoresh David Messisinc Synagogue each having their own entrance, additionally written under the name of the synagogue was a quote that read “Where Jews and Gentiles Worship Together”.