7 Disgusting Facts About "Jehovah's Witnesses"

Added: 2026-05-08

[00:00:00]It's sinful to speak out against abortion according to the Jehovah's Witnesses. I'll be going over that and more in this video going over the top seven things you should know about the Jehovah's Witnesses. Now, if you were to Google Jehovah's Witnesses and what they are, it would say that it's a Christian denomination. A denomination that denies the deity of Christ and the Trinity and you know, a whole bunch of other things that Christians believe. But of course, just like Mormonism for example, they would say that all the other denominations out there, they are abominations. They have gone up apostate. They aren't real Christians.

[00:00:32]So, according to Google, there's over 9 million Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide.

[00:00:35]Let's get started with number one. This one is extremely important. It is their view of who is leading God's people today and how. How does God teach people today? According to their website jw.org, here's this article. You can read this whole thing if you want, but the point comes down here. How exactly does this happen? Well, they have this thing called the governing body and this is who runs this website. The governing body makes important decisions collectively. How so? The members meet weekly and each year they rotate chairmanship since no member of the governing body is considered to be more important than other members. They go on to say, "The governing body is neither inspired nor infallible. Therefore, it can err in doctrinal matters or in organizational direction." But this is where it gets interesting. According to this article, who really is the faithful and discreet slave? And here it says, "The faithful slave is the channel through which Jesus is feeding his true followers in this time of the end." Of course, they believe that we are living in the end times. "It is vital that we recognize the faithful slave." And they interpret the faithful slave as the governing body. They explicitly say that later on in this article. "In recent decades, the slave has been closely identified with the governing body of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Our spiritual health and our relationship with God depend on this channel." So, it's part of their governing body's teachings that you need the governing body to have your relationship with God himself. And by the way, that governing body is fallible. They can make mistakes. So, what does that tell you? It tells you that when the governing body says, "Hey, you need us to get to God." they could be wrong about that and they most certainly are. But this is important when understanding their epistemology.

[00:02:18]They would say that the Bible is the ultimate authority, sola scriptura. They would actually believe something like that that at least on the surface.

[00:02:25]Except on the other hand, they will put out stuff like this. "Our relationship with God depends on this group of people in New York. God feeds his followers worldwide through this group of people in New York, these men." And so, your relationship with God depends on these men who could be wrong whenever they're telling you anything basically cuz they're fallible. They're not God's word, meaning we don't actually need them. What we need is scripture. And of course, we need to go through Jesus himself. He is the way to God as he said in John chapter 14. Now, that's the first thing you should understand about their theology. It's to be distinguished from your average Jehovah's Witness street that might knock on your door.

[00:03:01]Although, I do think your average Jehovah's Witness is pretty knowledgeable. Out of all the cults out there, they would have the highest view of scripture that I know of. They're not like the Mormons who willfully admit on a daily basis, "Oh yeah, the Bible's false. There's a whole lot of false teachings in the Bible." I hear that and I'm like, "What? You're clearly not a Christian then." But these people, the Jehovah's Witnesses, are a bit more sharp. On to number two, let's talk about Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Although, they would say that it's just the modern-day organization that he founded and Jesus really founded Christianity and they would say that only Jehovah's Witnesses are real Christians. But remember, not every Jehovah's Witness is going to say something like that. They might say something like, "Oh, you're a good person. You do good works. I think God will take care of you even if you have some bad beliefs." But Charles Taze Russell, he was born in the 1850s in Pennsylvania and he basically started this movement called the Bible Student Movement. And basically, this was just a Bible-only movement. No care for church history at all. The Bible Student Movement strongly rejected the Trinity because obviously the word Trinity is not found in the Bible. In fact, if I can narrow it down to just three doctrines that the Jehovah's Witnesses have a problem with when it comes to other Christians, is the doctrine of the Trinity, the deity of Jesus Christ, and the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. Most Christians out there would believe and teach that everybody's souls are immortal. People die and then they go on to live somewhere else, either in heaven or in hell. All sorts of Christians would explain that differently, but the core doctrine is the same. Everybody is inherently immortal. Everybody inherently has eternal life. And so, the JWs kind of pride themselves on rejecting those three doctrines. Those are their main distinctives. Now, obviously Charles Taze Russell wasn't really the best Bible student because if he really studied the Bible, he wouldn't have made a bunch of false prophecy. He's one of the most obvious false prophets in American history. He predicted that the rapture would happen in 1878 when it didn't happen, it's whoopsies, it's actually 1881, my bad on the calculation. He also predicted that Jesus would return in 1914, which according to them, he did. They still maintain that today that Jesus is reigning and ruling right now from heaven. However, in his original prophecies, it is a complete destruction of all human governments in 1914. But nowadays, the JWs interpret it more so as the process has begun in destroying all human governments and so the end times began in 1914 according to that.

[00:05:27]One more crazy prophecy that obviously didn't come true and this is why a lot of Jehovah's Witnesses actually left in the 1920s, was that the Old Testament saints were going to be literally raised from the dead to reign as princes because obviously we need better governance if the current world system is going to be done away with, right?

[00:05:43]Now, on to number three, this is what I mentioned at the beginning of the video.

[00:05:46]They are not allowed to be active politically at all. If you say abortion is wrong in the streets and you are trying to call the governing authorities to repentance, to do good things, you're in sin. You should repent according to them. What should Christians do today?

[00:06:01]True Christians today do not participate in politics. Why not? Because they follow Jesus' example. He said about himself, "I am no part of the world."

[00:06:09]Regarding his followers, he stated, "You are no part of the world." And of course, they try to give their reasons for why you should not get involved in politics. I'm not going to try to refute everything that they say here, but I want you Christians to think about how you would go about refuting what they're saying here. "Oh, God's kingdom, Jesus' kingdom is not of this world. Politics, that's worldly stuff. We should not be engaging politics whatsoever. In fact, you're sinning if you do because that means you're fighting for a worldly kingdom, not Jesus' kingdom." It's not just the Jehovah's Witnesses who believe stuff like that. There's a lot of Christians, real Christians who say stuff like that today. Now, the next thing you should know about the JWs is that they have a corrupt translation. It is called the New World Translation and again, you can find it on their website.

[00:06:49]There is a ton of places in the scriptures that teach that Jesus is God, one of the most famous ones being John 1:1. And in their translation, it says, "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was a god." Now, they have a ton of articles and explanations for why they want to translate it this way. Foundationally though, it's simply because they don't believe he's God and so they have to make it sound like he's not God in their translation. Now, personally, I wouldn't really try to go fight a Jehovah's Witness on John 1:1 because they've been trained these scripted responses to that because they deal with it all the time.

[00:07:22]I would rather go to somewhere like Genesis chapter 18 and 19, Judges 13, Philippians 2, a whole bunch of different passages where even in their corrupt translation, it clearly teaches that God is multi-personal and can be clearly seen. And not just God in the two gods sense. They do believe that there are two gods, the Father and then Jesus is a different God, which is just polytheism, right? But if you don't know the story, you should go to Genesis 18 and 19. That is where God punishes Sodom and Gomorrah by God in heaven. And so again, even in their corrupt translation, this gets through. Jehovah made it rain sulfur and fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah and it came from Jehovah from heavens. Jehovah made it rain from Jehovah. I kind of touched on this one earlier, but yes, they do believe that Jesus has returned. In this article, 1914, a significant year in Bible prophecy. "Just as Jesus predicted, his presence as heavenly king has been marked by dramatic world developments, war, famine, earthquakes, pestilences.

[00:08:23]Such developments bear powerful testimony to the fact that 1914 indeed marked the birth of God's heavenly kingdom and the beginning of the last days of this present wicked system of things."

[00:08:35]is the beginning of the heavenly kingdom even though Jesus said 2,000 years ago, "The kingdom of heaven is in your midst." Okay, so. Now, let's move on to number six. By the way, if you're enjoying the content, please subscribe.

[00:08:47]It helps the channel out a lot. We're going to get into their personal eschatology a little bit. This is their article on what is the resurrection.

[00:08:56]Where will people be resurrected? Some people are resurrected to life in heaven to rule as kings with Christ. This is what they believe the 144,000 are. You might have heard people say that Jehovah's Witnesses only believe that 144,000 people are going to heaven. Yes, that's true. But you have to understand that orthodox Christian theology teaches that zero people go to heaven, okay? We believe that there is a resurrection from the dead. People will literally come back to life to live forever on earth. It's going to be a renewed earth.

[00:09:26]But they would believe that there are two different kinds of resurrection.

[00:09:29]Some Christians will go live forever in heaven and the rest are going to be raised from the dead to life on earth, okay? Which is most people. Now, who will be resurrected? They would quote the Bible. Again, they love quoting the Bible and often times they are correct in their interpretations. That's fine. I can even recognize that there's atheists out there who can read the Bible and understand it just fine. So, this part right here is correct. "The righteous include faithful people such as Noah, Sarah, and Abraham." And it says, "The unrighteous include those who failed to meet God's standards but did not have the opportunity to learn and follow them. However, those who become so wicked that they are beyond reform will not be resurrected. When such ones die, they suffer permanent destruction with no hope of a return to life. So according to them there's two kinds of wicked people, the super wicked people who die and that is their judgment. They never come back to life. And then the not as wicked people, they're not as culpable for their sins. They get raised from the dead for a second chance. And they explain that that happens during the millennial kingdom. If you get that second chance, you come back to life to live another life basically and you get a chance to repent again. So practically speaking, the Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe in hell at all. They don't believe that there is a resurrection of the dead to judgment as John chapter 5 talks about. For more information, you can look at this article, Judgment Day, What Is It? Where it says the one who has died has been acquitted from his sin. So you die, you're free from your sins. Those resurrected thus to life with a clean slate. They totally didn't take that verse out of context, now did they? Anyways, at number seven, I believe, they would deny the gospel and God himself, thus making the Jehovah's Witness religion a completely false religion and it's leading many many people straight to hell. That is the biblical view of hell, not their kind where there actually isn't one and you get a second chance after you die. We already dealt with the deity of Christ and the Trinity, but look at this, they completely and totally deny that Jesus was raised from the dead. Look at their interpretation. Jesus' own words showed that he would not be resurrected with his flesh and blood body. He said that he would give his flesh in behalf of the life of the world as a ransom for mankind. If he had taken back his flesh when he was resurrected, he would have canceled that ransom sacrifice. This sounds a lot like the atheist argument that they make. Oh, he only gave up a bad weekend. No. So they would teach that Jesus was a literal human being during his life on earth and then he literally died, but then he wasn't literally raised from the dead. His body stayed in the ground, it dissolved. As we see in another article from them where they explicitly say that. They believe that his body was disposed by God, not raised from the dead. And of course, we know from 1 Corinthians 15, if he is not raised from the dead, then our faith is futile. If we aren't raised from the dead, our faith is futile. The second way in which they deny the gospel is works based salvation. Of course, just like all the other false religions out there, is belief in Jesus all that we need to be saved? No. But remember guys, this is from their governing body, which could teach false things, okay? So they say although we must believe in Jesus to gain salvation, more is required. And of course, they quote all the other verses that people love to take out of context. Instead of going straight to the verses that directly answer this question in regards to justification, how we are saved, how are we made right with God? The Bible explicitly says, but to the one who does not work, but believes upon him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness. So the Jehovah's Witnesses, just like the Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Muslims, all these false religions out there, they insist that you cannot know if you are saved, if you will have eternal life. You are constantly in this battle against your flesh and so there is no guarantee that you're going to win out and so the most honest and humble people don't fully trust God for their salvation. They have to trust partly in themselves. Therefore, we can't have assurance of salvation. That's the argument that they have and so you have to believe that if you believe in works based salvation, that is God didn't do everything for us. But the Bible does teach that God did everything, he paid it all. And it is indeed by faith that we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Take the Jehovah's Witnesses to verses like this, show them that they have absolutely zero hope in a false Christ, one that doesn't actually [music] have all power and that their gospel is a phony gospel. All right, God help us all.

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