Jehovah's Witness, what are the four requirements for being spared judgment according to the Watchtower?

Question

Dont be Naive !

Yes the Watchtower lists four requirements !

Answer 1

They do get a little testy when a question is asked that puts them on the spot to admit that they have to try to earn their salvation. They must go out in service..study the WT, loyal to "the organization". not sure what else. But then even this isn't a sure thing that they will be saved. The more they go out in service, the more loyal they are, and the more studing they do for the WT and the many Books they have, in their minds makes them have a better chance of surviving .

It must be very hard to live life in fear..and they do live in fear, although they will say they don't.

What a wonderful blessing it is to be saved by Grace, and to know what the real gospel of the Bible is all about. Even though we are saved by grace, we live our lives for Christ and that in turn makes us better people..more loving, forgiving, Christ like. We walk together as believers, Christian believers have a bond and a deep love for one another as well as for all non believers. Its a Christ thing!

Answer 2

Great question, leave the question for them to get together to agree with this in their 'unity'. I wanna know

Edit: I have heard about this nina-BaC...My account was opened Feb 4th 07

Answer 3

HI there worker4iam!

It seems you already know the answer, what is the point of your question..or as you have said to me before..you are led by the spirit again here to preach the gospel?

Answer 4

Wait a minute, SPARED judgment? Witness' can be spared from god judging you? What does that mean?

Answer 5

Wow!  What a commotion you stirred up.  Jehovah's Witnesses spare judgment by, let me count the ways: I) loyal submission to the WTBS.  2) staying faithful to death (no blood transfusion).  3) getting bible study students baptized.  4) No whistle blowing on the Elders.

Maybe I am a Jehovah's Witness and did I pass the requirements?

Answer 6

As conundrum's answer indicates:

As others have stated, the phone book is the best way to get in contact with the local congregation.

However, you may want to give her this warning, as well:

Jehovah's Witnesses do not appreciate the challenging of their "Governing Body" and the official doctrine as dispensed by these sinful, errant humans. Should a follower of the Watchtower Society find a discrepency in the teachings, they are expected to keep their findings to themselves and patiently wait for "new light" (official change in doctrine).

Anyone who believes that they may be teaching truth would be wise to pray, research and challenge away, before the stakes get higher! (accusations of apostacy, loss of family and friends, scarred children, the list goes on) And all in the name of "Unity!" For this reason and many others, the Jehovah's Witnesses are widely recognized as a psychologically and spiritually abusive cult.

These words are not mine, but I hope you'll find them helpful! :)

All religions have one thing in common: they encourage their members to work as hard as they can to gain everlasting life, the celestial kingdom, nirvana, or whatever else they want to call it.

Biblical Christianity, however, is different. Instead of earning our goal as a reward, it is offered to us freely as a gift through Jesus Christ as the perfect sacrifice, whose offering of Himself was complete to earn our way to everlasting life with God the Father.

As Jesus Christ was dying, he said “It is finished” because from that point on, all anyone had to do was to trust His sacrifice to cover their sins. Everyone needs this sacrifice because the Bible tells us in Romans 3:23 that we are all sinners.

We are in such bad condition that when we try to earn favor with God through our good works, Isaiah 64:6 tells us that our righteous deeds are like filthy rags to God. In Mark 10:27 Jesus is answering His disciples’ question, “who then can be saved?” He said, “with man, this is impossible, but with God, all things are possible.”

God realizes that man cannot possibly save himself through door-to-door preaching or ordinances of a church. That’s why God did not send an organization or a church to offer us peace with God, but He sent His Son Jesus Christ. Jesus says in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but through me.”

These words are not mine, but I hope you'll find them helpful! :)

All religions have one thing in common: they encourage their members to work as hard as they can to gain everlasting life, the celestial kingdom, nirvana, or whatever else they want to call it.

Biblical Christianity, however, is different. Instead of earning our goal as a reward, it is offered to us freely as a gift through Jesus Christ as the perfect sacrifice, whose offering of Himself was complete to earn our way to everlasting life with God the Father.

As Jesus Christ was dying, he said “It is finished” because from that point on, all anyone had to do was to trust His sacrifice to cover their sins. Everyone needs this sacrifice because the Bible tells us in Romans 3:23 that we are all sinners.

We are in such bad condition that when we try to earn favor with God through our good works, Isaiah 64:6 tells us that our righteous deeds are like filthy rags to God. In Mark 10:27 Jesus is answering His disciples’ question, “who then can be saved?” He said, “with man, this is impossible, but with God, all things are possible.”

God realizes that man cannot possibly save himself through door-to-door preaching or ordinances of a church. That’s why God did not send an organization or a church to offer us peace with God, but He sent His Son Jesus Christ. Jesus says in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but through me.”

Answer 7

Your question is not worded correctly.  JWs DO not believe that they will escape Judgment.  We believe the judgment will START with us

(1 Peter 4:17) 17 For it is the appointed time for the judgment to start with the house of God. Now if it starts first with us, what will the end be of those who are not obedient to the good news of God?

Why will it start with JWs?  Because we believe that we  have been given a great responsibility to declare the Good News of Gods Kingdom by his Son Jesus.  And because of that responsibility we are accountable

(Luke 12:48) 48 But the one that did not understand and so did things deserving of strokes will be beaten with few. Indeed, everyone to whom much was given, much will be demanded of him; and the one whom people put in charge of much, they will demand more than usual of him.

Perhaps you meant what are the 4 requirements for salvation.  Well there are more than 4 requirements for salvation.  I will list 6 Biblical requirements that we teach

1)We must take in Knowledge of God and Jesus



(John 17:3) 3 This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.. . .

2)We need to repent of our former course of life

(Luke 13:1-5) 13 At that very season there were certain ones present that reported to him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 So in reply he said to them: “Do YOU imagine that these Gal·i·le´ans were proved worse sinners than all other Gal·i·le´ans because they have suffered these things? 3 No, indeed, I tell YOU; but, unless YOU repent, YOU will all likewise be destroyed. 4 Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Si·lo´am fell, thereby killing them, do YOU imagine that they were proved greater debtors than all other men inhabiting Jerusalem? 5 No, indeed, I tell YOU; but, unless YOU repent, YOU will all be destroyed in the same way.”

3) In repenting we must be baptized. Baptism is an open way of publicly declaring that we want to do Gods will and a request to God for a clean conscience in regard to our former life

(1 Peter 3:21-22) 21 That which corresponds to this is also now saving YOU, namely, baptism, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the request made to God for a good conscience,) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 22 He is at God’s right hand, for he went his way to heaven; and angels and authorities and powers were made subject to him.

In being baptized we also publicly declare that we want to be known as JW and are willing to work along with the “faithful l slave” in declaring the good news

4)We must have faith in the ransom death of Jesus

(Romans 3:21-26) 21 But now apart from law God’s righteousness has been made manifest, as it is borne witness to by the Law and the Prophets; 22 yes, God’s righteousness through the faith in Jesus Christ, for all those having faith. For there is no distinction. 23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and it is as a free gift that they are being declared righteous by his undeserved kindness through the release by the ransom [paid] by Christ Jesus. 25 God set him forth as an offering for propitiation through faith in his blood. This was in order to exhibit his own righteousness, because he was forgiving the sins that occurred in the past while God was exercising forbearance; 26 so as to exhibit his own righteousness in this present season, that he might be righteous even when declaring righteous the man that has faith in Jesus. . .

5) our faith is an active faith. We must become doers of the word



(James 1:22) 22 However, become doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves with false reasoning. . .

Because faith with out works is dead

(James 2:14) 14 Of what benefit is it, my brothers, if a certain one says he has faith but he does not have works? That faith cannot save him, can it?

(James 2:18) 18 Nevertheless, a certain one will say: “You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith apart from the works, and I shall show you my faith by my works.”. . .

(James 2:26) 26 Indeed, as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

6)We need to have endurance to run the race of life

(Matthew 24:13) 13 But he that has endured to the end is the one that will be saved. . .

Answer 8

They don't know/OR/ they do and don't want to share with anyone else

The only other answer is that maybe, just maybe they know that people who are not already indoctrinated will run if they find out.I choose the last option from comments they have already given. A good deal of the exclusive doctrines require hours of preparation so the student of ("the Bible" NWT only) which becomes a synonym for (Watchtower) is primed to except doctrinal interpretation.

Answer 9

nina Bac-

You state that God has always used an organization.  What organization did he use in the beginning?  What organization did he use when Jesus was preaching.  Did Jesus use an organization or did he just do it himself?  Oh, and by the way can you name the book and verse that states that God always used an organization and then last but not least tell me where it is in the bible that the Watchtower is his only chosen organization, if you would please.

Edit++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++...

What happened to nina-BaC you know the other nina bac?  He answer the question and then I asked him and now he is gone.

Answer 10

Your Questions are corrosive to an untrained eye and in no way is meant to find the truth...However having said that being truthful does not mean that we are obligated to divulge all information to anyone who asks it of us. “Do not give what is holy to dogs, neither throw your pearls before swine, that they may never . . . turn around and rip you open,” warned Jesus, at Matthew 7:6. For example, individuals with wicked intent may have no right to know certain things and Christians understand that they are living in a hostile world which is why Jesus advised his disciples to be “cautious as serpents” while remaining “innocent as doves.” (Matthew 10:16; John 15:19) Jesus did not always disclose the full truth, especially when revealing all the facts could have brought unnecessary harm to himself or his disciples and in this case harm other Witnesses or those learning about the truth. Jesus  instead chose either to say nothing or to divert the conversation in another direction.

As I have just done.

Answer 11

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into h**l and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter; and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds), then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, (2Peter 2:4-9)

God did not spare even the angels from judgment.  I don't think man can be spared the judgment of God.  

Answer 12

Your Questions are corrosive to an untrained eye and in no way is meant to find the truth...

(Really Who Made YOU jude over all?)

However having said that being truthful does not mean that we are obligated to divulge all information to anyone who asks it of us. “Do not give what is holy to dogs, neither throw your pearls before swine, that they may never . . . turn around and rip you open,” warned Jesus, at Matthew 7:6. For example, individuals with wicked intent may have no right to know certain things and Christians understand that they are living in a hostile world which is why Jesus advised his disciples to be “cautious as serpents” while remaining “innocent as doves.”

(AGAIN, CASTING JUDGEMENT WITH ADD OF INSULT)

( A TRUE WITNESS WE CAN ALL RESPECT)

(Matthew 10:16; John 15:19) Jesus did not always disclose the full truth, especially when revealing all the facts could have brought unnecessary harm to himself or his disciples and in this case harm other Witnesses or those learning about the truth.

(SO WE SHOULD TAKE IT LITERAL WHEN YOU SING  MAKE THE TRUTH YOUR OWN?)

Jesus instead chose either to say nothing or to divert the conversation in another direction.As I have just done.

(YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING WITH THIS COMMENT, EXCEPT TO MAKE THE ASKER LOOK SMARTER)