Is this an accurate belief?

[polonius]

https://carm.org/cut-jw reports that the Jehovah Witnesses believe that only Jehovah Witnesses can be saved.

Only JW church members will be saved (Reference: The Watchtower, Feb. 15, 1979, p. 30)

Is this an actual Jehovah Witness doctrine?

Does anyone have a copy of this Watchtower edition or is it on the web?

[JehovahsWitness]

QUESTION: What do Jehovah's Witnesses currently urge people to do and why?

"Any person who wants to survive into God's righteous new order urgently needs to come into a right relationship with Jehovah and His earthly organization now ".Watchtower 1981 Nov 15 pp.16-17

However, wanting to survive does not mean you will; putting oneself in the "safest place" doesn't mean you will. Being judged favorably means you will.

To illustrate: Any any (adult) person who wants to marry would do well to pay attention to their personal hygiene and get out their and meet people rather than stay at home without making contact with anyone but their cat. Does this mean that if they do bath and get out they are guaranteed to marry? Or simply they have considerably increased their chances? Do no dirty hermits marry?

Stating what a person needs to do to survive doesn't mean amount to a negative statement of destruction for those that ignore the warning or even a guarantee of survival. Certainly coming to an accurate knowledge of their creator and being in the only organization set to survive the coming destruction would, in our opinion be a good thing to do. Being one of Jehovah's Witnesses is definitely a wise choice to make for anyone that wants to survive.

What this statement does NOT say is that all those that fail to do this will die at Armageddon (or all those that do join us are guaranteed salvation). The Jehovah's Witness belief is that, even taking this advice, the final judgement rests with the Almighty (compare Zeph 2:3).


If JWs believe that some that are NOT currently part of their organization will survive Armageddon* why do they encourage people to joint them (scroll down)
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 274#865274

Do Jehovah's Witnesses believe they have the ONE TRUE RELIGION?
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 968#862968

Will those that are NOT Jehovah's Witnesses automatically condemned?
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 330#861330

To learn more please go to other posts related to...

JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES , THE TRUE RELIGION and ...EXCLUSIVITY OF SALVATION

[JehovahsWitness]

Are you going to claim that they were all misquoted?

NOTE: I haven't personally checked all the references so I cannot say one way or the other. I have dealt with the following in good faith that the quotes are indeed accurate

Let’s look at some other JW publications and what they are claiming.

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INDEX

"Only Jehovah's Witnesses, those of the anointed remnant and the "great crowd," as a united organization under the protection of the Supreme Organizer, have any Scriptural hope of surviving the impending end of this doomed system dominated by Satan the Devil." Watchtower 1989 Sep 1 p.19

[1] RESPONSE
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 274#865274

"In the near future this generation will see the foretold “great tribulation� that will bring an end to this present wicked system. (Matt. 24:21) At that time none of Jehovah’s faithful servants, the only ones surviving, will mourn over the destruction of the wicked. To the contrary, they will rejoice, even as Moses and his people rejoiced at the destruction of Pharaoh and his army." Watchtower 1977 Jun 1 p.345

[2] RESPONSE
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 278#865278

"The majority of people living today will probably be alive when Armageddon breaks out, and there are no resurrection hopes for those that are destroyed then." Kingdom Ministry 1968 Mar p.4

[3] RESPONSE
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 282#865282

"An even greater mistake would be to allow the faults of others to stumble us and cause us to leave Jehovah's organization. Were that to happen, we would lose not only the privilege of doing God's will but also the hope of life in God's new world." Watchtower 2016 Jun study ed pp.25-26

[4] RESPONSE
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 285#865285

"At this stage of the affairs of man, it is absolutely impossible for anyone, professed Christian or otherwise, to stand independently of the one organization that is bearing witness worldwide to Jehovah, his goodness and supremacy in accord with the 145th Psalm and, in fact, in accord with all the Scriptures." Yearbook 1982 p.259

[5] RESPONSE
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 290#865290

"Any person who wants to survive into God's righteous new order urgently needs to come into a right relationship with Jehovah and His earthly organization now….Watchtower 1981 Nov 15 pp.16-17

[6] RESPONSE
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 292#865292


Jehovah's Witnesses have a website where you can read the OFFICIAL statement of beliefs.

LINK Offiicial Jehovah's Witness website
https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/

[polonius]

https://carm.org/cut-jw reports that the Jehovah Witnesses believe that only Jehovah Witnesses can be saved.

This is NOT a Jehovah's Witness belief. Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe that only those individuals that are part of the modern day organization of Jehovah's Witnesses will survive the coming destruction of Armageddon.

Moreover Jehovah's Witnesses believe that there will be millions of people that were never part of our organization that will certainly be in paradise.

Here is the OFFICIAL statement on this matter from the JW website - click on picture to enlarge

RESPONSE: So this article is in error too?

https://jwfacts.com/watchtower/salvatio ... nesses.php
Salvation Only For Jehovah's Witnesses

Watchtower teaches that Jehovah's Witnesses alone will survive Armageddon, as only they have Jehovah's backing, being the only people that worship the true God.

"Only Jehovah's Witnesses, those of the anointed remnant and the "great crowd," as a united organization under the protection of the Supreme Organizer, have any Scriptural hope of surviving the impending end of this doomed system dominated by Satan the Devil." Watchtower 1989 Sep 1 p.19

[JehovahsWitness]

[Replying to post 13 by polonius.advice]

Already addressed

[1] RESPONSE
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 274#865274

I have INDEXED the answers for easy reference
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 295#865295


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