When nothing supernatural happened in 1914, they changed the year to 1925 then many times thereafter. Jehovah's Witnesses predicted that Jesus would come in 1914 to judge the Earth and annihilate the wicked. They also do not believe in the intercession of the departed saints. Instead, they believe in the annihilation of the wicked (including, according to their beliefs, the annihilation of both Satan and Adam, the first man), i.e., they do not believe in the eternal punishment of sinners. They do not believe in the immortality of the soul (sharing this belief as well as that of the earthly paradise with Seventh Day Adventists). They believe in numerous resurrections, each one being for a particular group of people, and in an eternal earthly paradise as a literal fulfilment of Isaiah 65:21: " They shall build houses and inhabit them They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit". For example, John 1:1 in their New World Translation reads, " In beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god." Other verses worth noting in this context include Acts 20:28 (reads " with the blood of His own" instead of the correct " with His own blood"), Luke 23:43 (" Truly I tell you today, You will be with me in Paradise" instead of the correct " Assuredly I say to you: 'today you will be with Me in Paradise'" - note the different meanings of 'today'), and 1 Timothy 3:16. Jehovah's Witnesses have their own false translation of the Bible, in which they have altered many verses to suit their doctrines. They say that Jesus Christ Himself does not have an immortal soul, but gained immortality as a reward for His success in the test and for His faithfulness to the Father until death. Jehovah's Witnesses also believe that Jesus Christ is the Archangel Michael. Accordingly they deny the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. To sum up, their denial of the Hypostatic Nature of the Holy Spirit is a part of their denial of the Three Persons. Their book " Talk from the Holy Scriptures", P.Their book " This is eternal life", P.Their book " The Truth that leads to eternal life," P.The heresy of Jehovah's Witnesses is clearly presented in their books some of which are the following: Jehovah's Witnesses claim to be "Christians believing in the Bible", hence their real danger to the unaware Orthodox Christian. Their founder, Charles Taze Russell, was Christian, but became influenced by Arian and Seventh-Day Adventist teachings. Jehovah's Witnesses appeared in the second half of the nineteenth century in the USA. You can help OrthodoxWiki by editing it, especially to conform to the Style Manual and the suggestions in How to write a great article. More detailed comments may be noted on the talk page. This article or section needs a cleanup to bring it to a higher standard of quality.
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