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subtopics = [[Beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses|Beliefs]] - [[Jehovah's Witnesses: Jesus]], [[JehohavJehovah's Witnesses: Blood|Blood]] |

Jehovah's Witnesses are members of a religious movement who, although identifying themselves as Christian, are not generally considered as Christians by mainstream [[Christianity]] because they are [[non-trinitarian]]. They number around seven million. Their headquarters are in [[New York]], [[USA]]. It is an international organization known for its extensive preaching and publishing activities. They are well known for their rejection of [[blood transfusions]]and their specific version of the [[Bible]] with a number of crucial differences from mainstream translations.

The Jehovah's Witnesses had their modern-day start beginnings in the late 1870's when a small group under the leadership of sincere men and women started a Bible study group led by [[Charles T. Russell. When this group studied the Bible extensively, they found that many teachings ]] began to question a number of mainstream Christianity did not fit in with what was in the Bible namely accepted Christian doctrines including the [[Trinity]], [[Hellfire]], and who is going to [[HeavenHell]].

The Jehovah's Witnesses teach the following as core doctrine, basing them on certain passages. Some of these interpretations, in particular, Jesus as a created being, are in direct conflict with orthodox Christianity.*There is only one true God - ([[Isaiah 43:10]]; [[Isaiah 44:6]]; [[John 17:3]]; [[1 Corinthians 8:5, ]]-6)*God is named Jehovah (or Yahweh) - ([[Exodus 3:15, ]]-16; [[Exodus 6:3]]; [[Psalm 83:18]])*Jesus is God's son - ([[John 10:36]]; [[John 20:17]])*Jesus was created by God - ([[Colossians 1:15]]; [[Revelation 3:14]])*Bible is God's Word and ''only'' truth - true ([[2 Timothy 3:16]]; [[John 17:17]])*Christ lived a perfect life - ([[1 Peter 2:22]])*Christ died for all mankind - ([[Matthew 20:28]]; [[1 Timothy 2:5, ]]-6; [[1 Peter 2:24]])*Christ only had to die once for all man - mankind ([[Hebrews 9:25]]-28)* Only 144,000 will make it to heaven. {{b|Revelation 7:4}}** This is contradicted in {{b|Revelation 14}}, as it says the 144,000 are celibate Jewish males.

According to the Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus was created by God. He and came to earth and lived a sinless life. It that ultimately ended in his death, which was . His death is seen as a sacrifice for all sinful humans. The teachings of Christianity are based off of the life of Jesus Christ.  ====Views on Blood Transfusions====

*Basic Argument Against Blood TransfusionsThe Jehovah's Witnesses are well known for their refusal to receive blood transfusions. This is based on their interpretation on a number of passages in the Bible. These include [[Genesis 9:3]]-4, where God commanded Noah and his family to not eat blood. This command is re-iterated in [[Leviticus 7: 26]], [[Deuteronomy 12:16]] and again in the [[New Testament]]. In a list of things that Christians were forbidden to do, since there was confusion because the Law had been abolished, the disciples said that Christians were supposed to abstain from blood. ([[Acts 15:28, ]]-29) To illustrate: If a doctor told a man that he was to drink no more alcohol, would it be okay for the man to insert the alcohol into his veins? Hardly. Since God told man to abstain from blood, inserting it into your veins would not be abstaining from blood.

*Basic Argument for Blood Transfusions: The Law only prohibits ''drinking'Jehovah' s Witnesses believe that this declaration applies to all forms of taking blood, ''not'' blood transfusions, into the body because (a) blood transfusions were the Scripture in Acts does not in existence in Biblical times (and therefore the Bible say that you cannot say anything against them), and (b) ingesting eat blood can be very unhealthy (hence why it was prohibited by God). However, but that you must completely abstain from blood transfusions are ''not'' unhealthy, and in fact have saved millions of lives. The argument from the "alcohol analogy" (above) is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_analogy false analogy], because whether drinking alcohol or directly injecting it into one's body will have the same physical effect (both are unhealthy), whereas receiving They claim that taking a blood transfusion will have a different effect would not be abstaining from drinking blood (the former is healthy, the latter is not).

There are around 7,000,000 Jehovah's Witnesses on Earth today. They spend billions of hours preaching every year and hold millions of Bible studies in an effort to teach people what they believe the Bible really says. They have the most extensive publishing operations in an effort to print Bibles and Bible aids in every language to reach all people with the Gospel. Their Many find their international operations are to be surprisingly impressive.

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