The Religious Convictions of Jehovah's Witnesses

This paper will look at the meaning behind the word Watchtowers. I will define the word and discuss such things as what it means to me and how it is used in practice. I will discuss why this word is important to me and why it is important to know. I will discuss how I will use this work and why I will use this word in my own practice.

Family, heritage, ethnicity, beliefs, values, knowledge, experiences, attitudes, religion, education, roles, language, and cuisine are all items encompassing culture. Culture is what influences your outlook on life itself as well as behaviors and rituals. Culture is the way different groups of people do things. While some cultures have overlapping cultural behaviors or aspects, most cultures vary significantly. Culture, for the most part, is something you are born into, your innate programming, however, it some aspects can be changed or evolved. "Only part of culture is conscious" (Spector, 2013).

Using proven facts and methodologies, the author supports her argument that various faiths can coexist outside of a singular perspective. Ward acknowledges every faith has defining guidelines followers must embrace, but maintains the

Jehovah’s Witnesses are a religious group that follows the Bible’s principles and uses them as a guideline in order to imitate Jesus -Jehovah’s Son- and serve

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Jehovah’s Witness religion/cult. The background and core beliefs of this religion will be discussed as well as the flaws that can be found in it. There will be much attention given to how proponents of this cult view Jesus and the implications that those views bring. There will

According to dictionary.com (n.d.), Jehovah witnesses are a part of a Christian Sect. Henslin (2012) states that a sect is like a cult, but larger than the cult. Dictionary.com (n.d) states that Jehovah Witnesses were founded in the late nineteenth century,

The Book of John, and the life and death of Jesus Christ are key components of the authors evidence to back up his ways of solving the issues of Christian worldviews. Along with this, the author includes testimonials of his friends that specifically dealt with real-life issues in conflict with their Christian views as well.

All you have to do is sign this document and all your suffering and pain will end, now will you sign, or not? This is a decision that many of Jehovah’s Witnesses during the Nazi Regime faced. What did this document contain? It stated that they would abandon their beliefs and faith in Jehovah God and pledge loyalty to the man behind their persecution of not only them, but also persecutor of the gypsies, Jews, and other groups of people he hated, he was Adolf Hitler. Jehovah’s Witnesses had a number of their human rights violated during the Holocaust. Foremost though, what are human rights? According to www.humanrights.com, human rights are, “The rights you have simply because you are human.” There are thirty human rights that are found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that people should apply, but sadly don’t. The book Stolen Into Slavery by Judith Dennis and Fradin explains another group of people that were violated of their human rights, 19th century slaves. These slaves were required to labor and suffer pain in the South, but some of these slaves were actually free black men from the northern states (where slavery was illegal) who had been lured into the southern states (where slavery was legal and encouraged) like Solomon Northup was a victim to this scam. Jehovah’s Witnesses and slaves were persecuted in a homogeneous manner, in a sense that both groups were tortured, imprisoned and taken away to another country or location, and they were also stripped of

Jews for Jesus has many core beliefs that are written as an attempt to combine Judaism and Christianity. Throughout the organizations statement of faiths, traditional Christian beliefs are clearly written. Jews for Jesus believe in one sovereign God, existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Other statements include the belief that all people are born with original sin; no man can approach G-d directly. Everyone must go through Jesus, the Son, Jesus was born of a virgin birth, and a person's salvation is dependent on his or her belief in the greatness of Jesus.

). Also 62% of the religiously affiliated say that they attend a religious service at least twice a month (Pew Research Center). And among the religiously affiliated, the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons have the greatest levels of regular religious services. Of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, 85% say they attend religious services at least once a week, and 77% of Mormons say they attend them once a week (Pew Research Center). In contrast, 39% of Catholics and 39% of Protestants say they attend Mass weekly, which is relatively lower than the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Mormons (Pew Research Center). There is also quite a large gap in going to religious services between the old and young Americans. The gap is particularly large for Catholics. 56% percent

In World War 2 many religions were being persecuted and punished “because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah 's Witnesses, and homosexuals,” states The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum .

The Jehovah’s Witnesses were rooted as a religion in the era of 1879 in the United States. It was established by Charles Taze Russell, he was a business man from Pennsylvania. Followers are widely acknowledged for going door to door and distributing out articles that analyze their viewpoint or encouraging people to forthcoming events at their gathering place which is termed as the Kingdom Hall. Religious interpretation is significant to the Jehovah’s Witnesses. It is a means through which they consider their faith and values. There are several main beliefs, rituals and practices of Jehovah’s witnesses, like Baptism, Assemblies and Conventions, and lastly Kingdom Hall Services.

In a major manner Jehovah's Witnesses are like everyone else. They have ordinary tribulations economic, physical, and emotional. They make errors sometimes, for they are not superlative, motivated, or flawless. But they

Jehovah’s Witnesses are a people known widely throughout the world. They are well-dressed people who come knocking at your door on different occasions offering religious literature for sale or trying to introduce their beliefs through carefully prepared conversation. People young, old, rich, poor, well educated and non-educated have embraced them. Their enthusiasm as proclaimers of God’s Kingdom has impressed even their harshest critics. Their love toward one another makes some non-witnesses hope and pray that more people would act in that manner. Yet, some may still wonder, who really are the Jehovah’s Witnesses? What is their history, their practices and their beliefs? Why are they the most attacked new religious

Interestingly enough, most children at a very early age recognize ways they can control their surroundings. For example, a screaming child demands his or her parents’ attention and most siblings strive to appease their younger brothers or sisters that have discovered the ability to make them react. While this is a simple model of governing, it demonstrates that ruling is innate and a part of man’s inner being. According to Genesis 1:26, God’s plan instituted the concept that humankind ruled the environment (New International Version). Although Jehovah’s plan gave man dominion over the earth, his ultimate purpose for humans is to know the Lord and have a relationship with him (Weider & Gutierrez, 2011, p. 61). After Adam’s (Eve) sinned,