Jehovah's Witnesses

Denomination·Founded 1879 CE

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → Jehovah's Witnesses

Branch

Core Tenets

3 — a sample of the center, never the sum All 3 →
The shared center — held across the tradition
God's name is Jehovah, and he is one person. The divine name restored to the text; Jesus honored as God's first creation, not God himself. Go deeper — context →
God's Kingdom is a real government. Established, Witnesses hold, in 1914 — soon to replace every human rule. The good news is an announcement of state. Go deeper — context →
Every Witness is a minister. The knock on the door: preaching is not a clergy's job, because there is no clergy. Go deeper — context →

Cosmos & Afterlife

how reality is built, and what follows death
After death

Paradise earth for most of the saved; heaven for 144,000

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