Biblical Answers to Tough Questions

What Christians Believe

Virtually all mainstream protestant denominations believe that you come to Jesus as you are. No matter how bad you think you are. His Holy Spirit will quicken your spirit (bring it to life) and with your cooperation, God will help turn you into the best person you can be.

Most cults and even most religions that are not even remotely Christian, believe that you must modify your behavior to be acceptable. You must be “good enough” or do enough “good deeds” to get to heaven.

Many people have gone to an early grave trying to do the impossible — be righteous by their own goodness.

The Bible has proven time and time again that self-righteousness (trying to be good by your own power) is impossible.

Jesus will take you as you are and make you into the person you always wanted to be. And beyond!

Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Confess (tell people out loud) that Jesus is Lord.  If you believe in your heart that Jesus was raised from the dead, you are saved! You’re going to Heaven!

But salvation is only the beginning. Ask Him to come in to your life in your own words — from the heart — then go get baptized as soon as possible. (You do not have to get baptized to go to heaven. But you will need to be baptized to have much success on earth.)  The Holy spirit will quicken your spirit – will bring your spirit to life. He will turn your heart to a heart of flesh (This is promised in Ezekiel 36:26). This is a process. Some processes will take longer than others, but one day when you look back, you will notice that you have made remarkable progress – progress that you never could have made on your own.

See the page on Salvation for more information on getting to heaven and baptism.

The Jehovah’s Witness people are some of the most devout people you will ever meet. Sadly, they do what they do with such zeal not out of the love of God, but out of fear. But that will be covered later.

The problem is with the Jehovah’s Witness religion. They do not believe in the Trinity[1]

Jesus even claimed equality with God. That is what got Him crucified. Jesus also infuriated the religious leaders by clearly claiming divinity when he said, “Before Abraham was, I AM.”

 

 

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by. (John 8:58-59 KJV)

The New World Translation

I have struck this from the blog. Charles Taze Russel may not have been peronaly involved in making the “New World translation”. But whoever translated the Bible to make it conform to the Jehovah’s Witness theology is probably going to be in big trouble come judgement day.

Jehovah’s Witnesses are required to save themselves

Though Christians believe that it is impossible to save ourselves – Salvation is a gift from God, the Jehovah’s Witnesses have a complex, impossible, and completely unscriptural belief about how to get to Heaven.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses have a caste system. 144,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses will be the “Ruling Class” Then there is the “Earthly Class” – everyone else who manages to save themselves. [3]

 

 

 

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1 What Does the Bible Really Teach?

 

2 Jehovah’s Witness History

Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry

http://www.carm.org/jw/history.htm

3 Jehovah’s Witnesses: Salvation Through Works

The Watchman Expositor

http://www.watchman.org/jw/worksjw.htm

4 What Does the Bible Really Teach?

Chapter 15 Paragraph 4 (2006 printing)

Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc

5 What Does the Bible Really Teach?

Chapter 15 Paragraph 11 (2006 printing)

Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc

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