JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES

Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses are derived from a movement founded in 1873 under the name “Bible Students” by Charles Taze Russell, a preacher American. Influenced by the Adventist George Storrs, Jonas Wendell and Nelson Barbour, he resumed their theories proclaiming the end times: Christ had returned invisibly in 1874 and since Armageddon planned for 1914. The Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society was founded in 1881 to disseminate his doctrine in a series of books entitled Studies in the Scriptures at the time publishing house; it has now become the central entity of Jehovah's Witnesses (Rogerson, 1969).

Jehovah's Witnesses claim to base all their beliefs and concepts in the Bible, and consider it as the only source of reference on matters of doctrine. Preferably used for this New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (edition published by the organization itself), but also cite and use other translations. In the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures commonly used the name Yahweh, which in other editions of the Bible translators have chosen to pour the Tetragrammaton from the Hebrew name of God as "God," "Lord" or "Yahweh" (Penton, 1997).

They claim to worship one God, Jehovah, and identify themselves as followers of one leader, Jesus Christ. Consider Jesus the son of God, but God Almighty identify him with the archangel Michael , mentioned among other passages in Daniel 10:13,10:21,12:1, which states that "the great prince." They believe the kingdom of God in the hands of Jesus Christ the Lord will vindicate the right to rule over all creation and that the planet will become a paradise where everyone will live forever live in harmony with God's standards (based in texts such as Psalm 37: 10, 11 and 29, Matthew 5:5, Daniel 2:44 and Revelation or Apocalypse 21:3 and 4) (Stark et al., 1997).

They are known for their active preaching of their beliefs (which they called good news of the Kingdom), especially from house to house, although they do in any circumstance where feasible they bear witness to their beliefs. They consider it a Christian duty. Jehovah's Witnesses believe, based on Biblical texts as 1 Timothy 4:1-3, that after the death of the apostles , there was a great apostasy that corrupted the original ideas of Christianity . The main effort ideology has been so removed from their teaching beliefs they interpret as contrary to the Bible to return to they realize they are in harmony with Scripture, reason, are in constant refinement of what is called secondary truths(Holden, 2002) .

They reject the doctrines of the Council of Nicea and later, as the Holy Trinity and define the Holy Spirit as "God's active force, not as a person. Do not believe in the immortality of the soul or the hell, believing that death is a state of absence of which will awaken in the resurrection. They also rejected infant baptism as contrary to biblical standards, as they believe that an infant cannot decide on a voluntary and conscious choice to Jehovah as ...