I've had a visitor once a month since moving into our house. It is a woman who is always dressed in a nice skirt and blouse giving me a tract or brochure of some kind.
I know she does it as a knotch on her "Get Into Heaven" belt so it doesn't annoy me it just makes me sad. She hardly lets me talk and, of course, always manages to come at the worst time (last time my son didn't have pants on as he had just come out of the bathroom and couldn't button them himself and my daughter had just bumped her head and it was very cold outside!) so we've not had much chance to converse but this last time she gave me a larger book that explains their beliefs to kids (it is written for pre-teens or so).
My husband and I looked through it and found that they don't think Jesus is God but that He is the son of God. Like an actual son, who isn't as old or wise as his Father. Instead they think he was the first and best example of what a Jehovah's Witness should be and that in heaven the really exceptional Jehovah's Witnesses (the 144,000 best) will rule with Jesus over the new earth.
They believe that everyone who dies is asleep and at the very end everyone will be raised up to live in paradise on the new earth regardless of how good or bad they have been. But, remember, only those best Jehovah's Witnesses will actually rule over everyone else.
Here is the mind-numbing irrationality of their faith:
If everyone ends up in Paradise except an exceptional few (the likelihood of my visitor getting into that number is slim to none when there are several million JWs on earth right now much less all the ones who have come before) then what does it matter that you slugged it out as a JW all this time? The book specifically says that even criminals will go to Paradise (they don't believe in hell or any sort of Judgement) since they must not have understood how they should have lived and should get another chance. So what in the world is the incentive to knock on door after door? To abide by their rules and Grace-less faith? So if this lady is right and I am wrong what is my consequence? I live in Paradise after I die.
But what happens if this lady is wrong and I am right? She will go to hell and I will go to heaven.
Just using the logic of the end-state (I'm not even going into the flagrant ignoring and manipulation of Scriptures) it doesn't make any sense to be a Jehovah's Witness. Next time she comes (barring me being covered in throw up or something!) I will ask her what on earth she is thinking!
Note: I am basing my interpretation of their beliefs on the book this woman gave me and am assuming that it correctly delineates the beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses.
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