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naomi24 18:27 Thu 15th Apr 2021 They do believe in heaven
but spaces are limited and most are already filled with special Jaws. Once God has disposed of all the non-JWs, the rest of the cult will inherit a perfect earth free of our harmful influences.
/////God recommends his own love to us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us { Romans}
The beginns of Babylon the Great,,? the world empire of false religion?, has brought much reproach on God’s Name. She has taught lies about God. She has prostituted herself spiritually by forming alliances with earth’s rulers. She has used her power and influence to exploit her flocks. And she has spilled much Blood, including the Blood of God’s servants
I will show you the judgment on the great prostitute.—Rev. 17:1.
“THE Real Tragedy of the Medieval church is that it FAILED to move with the times. Far from being, far from GIVING A SIRITUAL lead, it was retrograde and decadent, corrupt in all its members.” So says the book The Story of the Reformation about the powerful Roman Catholic Church, which had dominated most of Europe from the 5th century to the 15th century C.E.
John Wycliffe (1330?-84) was a Catholic priest and a professor of theology at Oxford, England. Well aware of the abuses in the church, Wycliffe was particularly outspoken when it came to the church’s neglect in teaching the Bible. During the reign of Henry IV of England, they were branded as heretics, and many of them were imprisoned, tortured, or burned to death.
Protestant Reformation has to be given, it would be October 31, 1517, when the Augustinian monk Martin Luther (1483-1546) nailed his 95 theses to the door of the castle church at Wittenberg in the German state of Saxony.
John Calvin (1509-64), who came in contact with Protestant teachings during his student days in France. In 1534 Calvin left Paris because of religious persecution and settled in Basel, Switzerland
His effort in translating the Bible into English was followed by others. William Tyndale, who had to flee from England, produced his New Testament in 1526. He was later betrayed in Antwerp and strangled at the stake, and his body was burned. The publication of the Bible in the language of the people was no doubt the single most powerful factor that contributed to the Reformation in England.
These are not Jehovah witnesses as we know them ,{ BUT }THEY WERE FAITHFUL MEN OF OLD , who tried to put thing right even within church .,and suffered the consequences {death } just to name a few ?{resurrection in view }