Garbe, Detlef (2008). Between Resistance and Martyrdom: Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 37, 38. ISBN 0-299-20794-3.
" In their opinion, only people who have accepted Jehovah and subsequently submit to his requirements will survive Armageddon and enter into the New World ... Jehovah's Witnesses also believe that a person confessing to worship God has to be associated with the true Christian denomination. Since they claim to be the only true religious denomination, they also claim to have the only means for salvation."
Is this a belief that all Jehovah Witnesses hold?
A belief of the Jehovah Witnesses?
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Re: A belief of the Jehovah Witnesses?
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Here is the OFFICIAL statement on this matter from the JW website - click on picture to enlarge
If you want to know what each individual Witness believes you could go over to the appropriate subforum and post a question for them. I can't guarantee that all 8.5 million will respond but but possibly one or two will and you can start collecting responses from there.
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Here is the OFFICIAL statement on this matter from the JW website - click on picture to enlarge
If you want to know what each individual Witness believes you could go over to the appropriate subforum and post a question for them. I can't guarantee that all 8.5 million will respond but but possibly one or two will and you can start collecting responses from there.
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viewforum.php?f=45
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WILL ALL NON-WITNESSES BE DESTROYED ?
Did the Watchtower of 1989 say that only Jehovah's Witnesses have the hope of surviving Armageddon?
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 74#p865274
Will these "survivors" of Armageddon all only be Jehovah's Witnesses, with automatic death to all non-Witnesses? (scroll down)
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 78#p917178
Will those that are NOT Jehovah's Witnesses be automatically condemned?
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 30#p861330
Do Jehovahs Witnesses believe non-Witnesse are "unsaved" condemned to annihilation?
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 44#p799144
What do Jehovah's Witnesss encourage non-Witnesses that want to survive Armageddon to do?
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http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 0#p1003130
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DO JWs BELIEVE THEY ARE IN THE ONLY TRUE RELIGION?
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Re: A belief of the Jehovah Witnesses?
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While I appreciate what you have said, this doesn’t address the heart of the question. This only addresses those living in the past.
For those living today, do most Jehovah’s Witnesses hold that only Jehovah’s Witnesses are saved?
(Feel free to give the official position of Jehovah’s Witnesses or, if there is none, your own view. I don’t expect you to respond for every Jehovah’s Witness in the world.)
While I appreciate what you have said, this doesn’t address the heart of the question. This only addresses those living in the past.
For those living today, do most Jehovah’s Witnesses hold that only Jehovah’s Witnesses are saved?
(Feel free to give the official position of Jehovah’s Witnesses or, if there is none, your own view. I don’t expect you to respond for every Jehovah’s Witness in the world.)
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Re: A belief of the Jehovah Witnesses?
Post #4bjs wrote:
For those living today, do most Jehovah’s Witnesses hold that only Jehovah’s Witnesses are saved?
What do you mean by "saved"? You use it in the present tense ("are saved") so I take it uou are not referring to the future destruction of the wicked at Armageddon (will be saved). Do you mean "Do Jehovahs Witnesses believe theirs is the only true religion?"
Clarification appreciated,
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Request clarification of JW teaching on salvation
Post #5Let's make this a simple question and stick to it.
Are you saying that a Jehovah Witness formal teaching is that Jews who die believing Jewish teachings only and Moslems who die believing Moslem teachings only cannot be saved since they were not Jehovah Witnesses?
Please respond to the exact question asked.
Are you saying that a Jehovah Witness formal teaching is that Jews who die believing Jewish teachings only and Moslems who die believing Moslem teachings only cannot be saved since they were not Jehovah Witnesses?
Please respond to the exact question asked.
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Re: Request clarification of JW teaching on salvation
Post #6polonius wrote: Are you saying that a Jehovah Witness formal teaching is that Jews who die believing Jewish teachings only and Moslems who die believing Moslem teachings only will not be saved since they were not Jehovah Witnesses?
Please respond to the question asked.
DO JEHOVAHS WITNESES BELIEVE THAT JEWS OR MUSLIMS THAT DIE BELIEVING THEIR RELIGIOUS TEACHING HAVE NO HOPE OF FUTURE LIFE IN PARADISE?
♦ANSWER No . Jehovahs Witnesses believe many millions of people that held to non-biblical beliefs will be given a ressurection to a paradise earth on this planet (after the destruction of the wicked ) and be afforted the opportunity to learn the truth about God and Jesus.
Who will or will not be afforded everlasting life thereafter depends entirely on Gods judgement.
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"For if we live, we live to Jehovah, and if we die, we die to Jehovah. So both if we live and if we die, we belong to Jehovah" - Romans 14:8
Re: Request clarification of JW teaching on salvation
Post #7JehovahsWitness wrote:polonius wrote: Are you saying that a Jehovah Witness formal teaching is that Jews who die believing Jewish teachings only and Moslems who die believing Moslem teachings only will not be saved since they were not Jehovah Witnesses?
Please respond to the question asked.
I already did? Was there something in my answer you did nit understand?
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 020#854020
RESPONSE: Let's make it simple. Are you say "yes" or '"no"? No dancing around the question please.
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I looked on the JW Watchtower Online site and found this:
Bible students need to get acquainted with the organization of the “one flock� Jesus spoke about at John 10:16. They must appreciate that identifying themselves with Jehovah’s organization is essential to their salvation. (Rev. 7:9, 10, 15) Therefore, we should start directing our Bible students to the organization as soon as a Bible study is established.
From https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/201 ... tion&p=par
This indicates that they believe one has to be a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses (which they regard as God's only true organization on earth) to be saved.
However, the Bible says this about salvation:
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved (Rom. 10:9-10).
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast (Eph. 2:8-9).
Membership in a church doesn't save. Jesus saves and we receive his gift of salvation through faith, not by belonging to a man-made organization.
Bible students need to get acquainted with the organization of the “one flock� Jesus spoke about at John 10:16. They must appreciate that identifying themselves with Jehovah’s organization is essential to their salvation. (Rev. 7:9, 10, 15) Therefore, we should start directing our Bible students to the organization as soon as a Bible study is established.
From https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/201 ... tion&p=par
This indicates that they believe one has to be a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses (which they regard as God's only true organization on earth) to be saved.
However, the Bible says this about salvation:
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved (Rom. 10:9-10).
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast (Eph. 2:8-9).
Membership in a church doesn't save. Jesus saves and we receive his gift of salvation through faith, not by belonging to a man-made organization.