Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christians.

Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christians.

Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christians. Although they believe  in the New Testament, it is their own incorrect translation that is misconstrued to suit their beliefs. They do not call themselves Christians, but `Jehovah's Witnesses' - `Jehovah'being a name of God used in the Old Testament.Their doctrine regarding the Lord Jesus Christ is completely different to the Christian doctrine; it is a mixture of the heresyof Arius, and other new heresies. They have even reached a

level much worse than that of Arius by far.

Many governments have expelled Jehovah's Witnesses from their countries because they sensed the danger which they {presented to the country's general peace}. Therefore, {it can be said that} they do not only propagate false religious beliefs, but they also propagate dangerous political ideas.

As they say that the Church is a product of the devil, they also say that governments are a product of the devil, and encourage people not to enter the armed forces. They also consider saluting the flag as idolatry.

Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe in the immortality of the soul and say that this is the teaching of the devil. They also say that after a person dies, he lives happily in the `earthly paradise',thus contradicting all the promises of the heavenly kingdom.

We are currently in the process of preparing a detailed book about Jehovah's Witnesses. {It will respond to their ideas which have now spread to many countries in the East and West.} This booklet is merely a collection of articles that were published in the `El-Keraza' English magazine, and which we considered publishing and distributing as an introduction to the upcoming book.

THE HERESY OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSESHistorical Background

Jehovah's Witnesses are a group which appeared in the second half of the nineteenth century. Their founder, Charles Russell, was born in 1854 in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Russell was a Christian, but was influenced in his youth by

Arian and Seventh-Day Adventist teaching, as well as the ideas of some atheists. From amongst all this mixture, he formed his doctrine around the year 1872 and published it in the UnitedStates of America. He was able to collect a fortune worth

approximately five million dollars, which he used for industrial and commercial projects.

His wife sued him on the grounds of marital betrayal at the Hamilton court which ruled in her favour, making him pay a fine and approving her divorce application. Some farmers also commenced proceedings against him on the grounds of fraud

and swindling because he sold to them wheat which he called, `miracle wheat' at a very high price, claiming that it was from the holy land and that it was many times more abundant than the normal harvest. {Of course non of this was true, the wheat was normal American wheat.}

In 1878 he renounced all Christian doctrine and in 1879 he published the `Watch Tower' magazine, and thus this name distinguished the publications and societies of Jehovah's.