Engaged to a Jehovah witness

[justaddwa]

Ask me anything, please no nasty comments about it!

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Do jehova witness believe in the trinity ? Do they believe that Jesus is god ?

I once asked a witness atthe door but got confused by his answer

If you have a child you would willingly allow them to die rather than have a full blood transfusion?

Wow!
Spectacular medical disinformation in this thread!!!!!!

DOI- Haematologist with multiple JW patients and the JW hospital liaison on speed dial

I wonder how people feel knowing their husbands/wives would let them die in the event they needed a transfusion and they weren’t in a position to make that decision.

I mean I know I’d rather my partner had life support turned off rather than let me live in a permanent vegetative state or whatever, but to think he would deny life saving treatment on my behalf if we were of the wrong religion....?

I believe the bit about blood products had to do with ingesting them rather than transfusion? After all transfusion wasn’t around back then was it?

I think the bit in the bible that JW's take to mean blood transfusions is something about 'not partaking of another man's flesh'.

My DH's parent would have let him die rather than have a blood transfusion. They also carry a card that says they are a JW's and don't want one if the need arises. They are completely brainwashed.

My understanding of the blood issue is that the bible forbids eating blood - it's the basis of much of the kosher rules, for example. The biblical reasoning is that because the 'life is in the blood'. It was probably something to do with the Israelites staying separate from the surrounding paganism that may have used blood in certain rituals, and also because the Israelites themselves used blood in very specific religious ways.

The Jehovah's Witnesses have extrapolated that rule to mean that if you wouldn't eat it, then neither should you take it intravenously.

@ILoveHumanity

They don't believe in the trinity and Jehovah is not Jesus - they are considered separate.

Genuine question? Why are Christmas & birthdays satanic?
And if you celebrate and he doesn't, what do us he do at Christmas while you and your daughter are celebrating?

I think the language the OP uses is interesting. She talks all the time about ‘this is what I’ve learnt’ or ‘I haven’t learnt that yet’, suggesting that she is accepting everything she learns. Rather than saying ‘well, this is what they tell me, but I don’t necessary accept what they’re saying’,

They both sound quite young but I wish them both well and hope it works out for them.

The op seems very defensive even though she’s apparently not converted yet. Seems like she’s had a baby with someone and is desperate to cling on.

The blood transfusion thing makes me sick. Does this include bone marrow transplants for cancer patients and kidney/liver transplants aswell?

Fitflap.. I think she just sounds in love and loyal enough to defend her fiancé from condescending remarks

The OP sounds very vulnerable. Don't know how she managed to go to "collage" when she can't even spell it. Good luck OP. Hope your dd realises how much bullshit all of it is before it's too late.

I could well be wrong on this but I was under the impression in JW eschatology that they believe blood entered the human body when Adam and Eve were cast from Eden, it's somehow caught up with the idea of God's life force and is precious etc. But then who knows when they (the Watchtower) seem to change their minds on a dime.

Oh OP.

You sound like someone/some people have been trying to indoctrinate you and you haven't understood a single word of it.

Might have already been asked but are you homophobic too OP?

Bless her.

She’s not engaged to a JW.

She’s engaged to the son of a JW family. He’s not baptised and he doesn’t preach so he’s not an actual witness .

@MrsPotter12 - the reason they don't celebrate birthdays is because they were only mentioned in the Bible twice, and on both times bad things were happening like when the head of John the Baptist was given as a present...

Going back to when the Watchtower was first set up they did indeed celebrate birthdays and Christmas but they then became subject to "new light" which enabled them to live truthfully and not celebrate such heathen things.

iMatter

I think you've hit the nail bang on the head - that is exactly what has happened here. So sad.

Op your beliefs make more sense to me than the non mathematically correct 3 gods in one .

I do think you should reconsider the whole blood transfusion thing though.

But overall, i do feel out of all Christianity ( I’m not Christian), it makes more sense to me that someone would believe that God and Jesus aren’t the same entity in one as it completely doesn’t make sense to me.

However if you are going to be in a vulnerable situation , please don’t go into this blindly. Perhaps you won’t be as you don’t sound pressured into this.

I thought that too cumber .

As someone who has JW family members, my advice to the OP is run for the hills! Take your OH and your family and go and live your life away from the JW side of your life.

And all the best xxx