I was told by a Jehovah's Witness once that it is against your rules to listen to the view points of other religions. If that is true then why do I see so many JW's here saying they are looking for new religious view points?
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Randoley
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I think it is usual and healthy for the younger generation to question the thinking of the older generation. One only hopes that it will lead to something better, not worse.
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What you were told (that it is against the "rules" to listen to the viewpoints of other religions) is not true. I think that they are not afraid to discuss other viewpoints of other religions because they are secure in their own religion. But they are not told to not listen. A big part of what they do IS to listen.
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How can you tell who all the Jehovah's Witnesses are on here? I can't tell unless I ask. +5
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Any time a "religion" starts proselytizing that members are not allowed to hear anything but a certain belief system, free will goes down the tubes and brainwashing begins. We need to love God unconditionally with our hearts and our minds. God is not hiding anything from us. We are free to find Him everywhere and through everyone.
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I think it is one thing to listen to unwarranted views and quite another when you are asking pointed questions out of your own curiosity. I'm not a Jehovah's Witness, but how could I hope to talk with someone about my faith and have any influence or impact on them I don't try and understand their view points?
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I thought they went for door to door talking to people about religion? How is that possible if they don't "listen to the view points of other religions?"
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Good question. :D Lets reason here. How can a conversation get started if a topic is not suggested or a question is not asked of the other person? In any conversation not only religious, everyone offers their view point. Thats a conversation most of the time, unless everyone is merely speaking in agreement. When a JW goes to your door, does he not offer a topic? Does he not ask a question about your feelings and beliefs? How can they do this unless they ask for your point view? They must ask for your point of view. In any conversation not only religious, do all people offer and receive the others point of view. I beleive all that happened is probably a little misunderstanding of what the JW meant. :D
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If it was a JW that told you that it is against the "rules to listen to the view points of other religions", then they have not been paying attention at the meetings. I don't know that I would call it "looking for new religious view points" as much as it would be trying to understand where each individual is coming from, as each person deserves to be heard rather it is a new view point or an old view point.
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Since all religions profess to worship God, and yet they worship in different ways, with different beliefs and practices, it is important to know if all of these different beliefs and practices are acceptable to God Himself. If God says that He disapproves of something, and yet a religion practices it, how can it be approved by God? He hasn't left us in the dark about what IS acceptable and what is not acceptable to Him. That information is available to every one through the Bible. So we don't have to study and compare all of the teachings of the hundreds of religions, we just need to learn what the Bible teaches, and then put it into practice. As Jehovah's Witnesses, we want to speak to people of all religions, because every one of us who has a belief in God needs to examine his or her own beliefs to see if they are in harmony with what the Bible teaches. Jesus Christ based all of his teachings on God's Word, and everything he taught was in harmony with the scriptures.
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