Jehovah%27s_Witnesses

qas: question: What are the Jehovah Witnesses?
answers: text: millenarian restorationist Christian denomination

question: What are the beliefs of Jehovah Witnesses distinct from?
answers: text: mainstream Christianity

question: How many adherents worldwide does the group claim?
answers: text: more than 8.2 million

question: Who is in charges of directing the Jehovah Witnesses?
answers: text: Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses

question: Where are the group elders located?
answers: text: Brooklyn, New York

question: How many Jehovah Witnesses adherents live in the United States?

question: Where was Jehovah Witnesses founded?

question: How many Jehovah Witnesses are involved in evangelism in the United States?

question: Where do Jehovah Witnesses believe Armageddon will get its start?
context: Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. The group claims a worldwide membership of more than 8.2 million adherents involved in evangelism, convention attendance figures of more than 15 million, and an annual Memorial attendance of more than 19.9 million. Jehovah's Witnesses are directed by the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, a group of elders in Brooklyn, New York, which establishes all doctrines based on its interpretations of the Bible. They prefer to use their own translation, the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, although their literature occasionally quotes and cites other translations. They believe that the destruction of the present world system at Armageddon is imminent, and that the establishment of God's kingdom over the earth is the only solution for all problems faced by humanity.

qas: question: What are Jehovah witnesses best known for?
answers: text: their door-to-door preaching

question: What do Jehovah Witnesses refuse?
answers: text: military service and blood transfusions

question: What do Jehovah Witnesses consider the name Jehovah vital for?
answers: text: proper worship

question: Why do Jehovah Witnesses reject inherent immortality of the soul, hellfire and Trinitarianism?
answers: text: they consider to be unscriptural doctrines

question: Why don't Jehovah Witnesses celebrate the usual holidays and customs?
answers: text: they consider to have pagan origins

question: What  in one of the Christian religions that observes Christmas?

question: What is one of the Christian religions that celebrates Easter?

question: What is one of the Christian religions which believes in Trinitarianism?

question: Which a Christian religion that allows blood transfusions?

question: What is a religion that doesn't limit social interactions with non-believers?
context: Jehovah's Witnesses are best known for their door-to-door preaching, distributing literature such as The Watchtower and Awake!, and refusing military service and blood transfusions. They consider use of the name Jehovah vital for proper worship. They reject Trinitarianism, inherent immortality of the soul, and hellfire, which they consider to be unscriptural doctrines. They do not observe Christmas, Easter, birthdays or other holidays and customs they consider to have pagan origins incompatible with Christianity. Adherents commonly refer to their body of beliefs as "the truth" and consider themselves to be "in the truth". They consider secular society to be morally corrupt and under the influence of Satan, and most limit their social interaction with non-Witnesses. Congregational disciplinary actions include disfellowshipping, their term for formal expulsion and shunning. Baptized individuals who formally leave are considered disassociated and are also shunned. Disfellowshipped and disassociated individuals may eventually be reinstated if deemed repentant.

qas: question: When did Charles Taze Russell form a group?
answers: text: 1870

question: Where did Russell and others form their group?
answers: text: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

question: What was the purpose of Russell's group?
answers: text: to study the Bible

question: When Russell met Nelson H. Barbour in 1876, they jointly produced what book?
answers: text: Three Worlds

question: 1914 would mark the end of a 2520 year period known as what?
answers: text: the Gentile Times

question: What was the name of a member in Charles Taze Russell's group in 1870?

question: What major event occurred in 1914?

question: In what year did Nelson H. Barbour die?

question: What was one of the doctrinal differences that Russell and Barbour had?
context: In 1870, Charles Taze Russell and others formed a group in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to study the Bible. During the course of his ministry, Russell disputed many beliefs of mainstream Christianity including immortality of the soul, hellfire, predestination, the fleshly return of Jesus Christ, the Trinity, and the burning up of the world. In 1876, Russell met Nelson H. Barbour; later that year they jointly produced the book Three Worlds, which combined restitutionist views with end time prophecy. The book taught that God's dealings with humanity were divided dispensationally, each ending with a "harvest," that Christ had returned as an invisible spirit being in 1874 inaugurating the "harvest of the Gospel age," and that 1914 would mark the end of a 2520-year period called "the Gentile Times," at which time world society would be replaced by the full establishment of God's kingdom on earth. Beginning in 1878 Russell and Barbour jointly edited a religious journal, Herald of the Morning. In June 1879 the two split over doctrinal differences, and in July, Russell began publishing the magazine Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence, stating that its purpose was to demonstrate that the world was in "the last days," and that a new age of earthly and human restitution under the reign of Christ was imminent.

qas: question: When did Watch Tower supporters gather as autonomous congregations to study the Bible?
answers: text: From 1879

question: How many congregations were founded?
answers: text: Thirty

question: When did Russell visit each of the congregations to provide the format he recommended to conduct their meetings?
answers: text: during 1879 and 1880

question: What did the congregations which continued to form during Russell's ministry remain?
answers: text: self-administrative

question: Who presided over Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society in 1881?
answers: text: William Henry Conley

question: Who was the most distributed Christian author in the world in 1912?

question: Who presided over Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society in 1900?

question: In what year did Charles Taze Russell die?

question: In what year did William Henry Conley die?

question: How many foreign missionaries did Charles Taze Russell appoint?
context: From 1879, Watch Tower supporters gathered as autonomous congregations to study the Bible topically. Thirty congregations were founded, and during 1879 and 1880, Russell visited each to provide the format he recommended for conducting meetings. As congregations continued to form during Russell's ministry, they each remained self-administrative, functioning under the congregationalist style of church governance. In 1881, Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society was presided over by William Henry Conley, and in 1884, Charles Taze Russell incorporated the society as a non-profit business to distribute tracts and Bibles. By about 1900, Russell had organized thousands of part- and full-time colporteurs, and was appointing foreign missionaries and establishing branch offices. By the 1910s, Russell's organization maintained nearly a hundred "pilgrims," or traveling preachers. Russell engaged in significant global publishing efforts during his ministry, and by 1912, he was the most distributed Christian author in the United States.

qas: question: When did Russell move the Society's headquarters to Brooklyn?
answers: text: 1909

question: What did Russell combine at the headquarters?
answers: text: printing and corporate offices with a house of worship

question: What was the name of the residence where volunteers were housed?
answers: text: Bethel

question: How many people worldwide were associated with Russell's movement by 1910?
answers: text: about 50,000 people

question: When did Russell die?
answers: text: October 31, 1916

question: In what month in 1909 did Russell move the Watch Tower Societies headquarters to Brooklyn, New York?

question: In what year did Russell establish the International Bible Students Association?

question: How many people in the United States were associated with Jehovah's Witnesses as of 1910?

question: In what year had Russell established the Watch Tower Society?

question: What was one of the cities on Russell's 1916 ministerial speaking tour?
context: Russell moved the Watch Tower Society's headquarters to Brooklyn, New York, in 1909, combining printing and corporate offices with a house of worship; volunteers were housed in a nearby residence he named Bethel. He identified the religious movement as "Bible Students," and more formally as the International Bible Students Association. By 1910, about 50,000 people worldwide were associated with the movement and congregations re-elected him annually as their "pastor." Russell died October 31, 1916, at the age of 64 while returning from a ministerial speaking tour.

qas: question: Who was elected as the Watch Tower Society's president in January of 1917?
answers: text: Joseph Franklin Rutherford

question: What had Rutherford been before being elected the group's president?
answers: text: legal representative

question: When did Rutherford release The Finished Mystery?
answers: text: June 1917,

question: Who did the Finished Mystery strongly criticize? 
answers: text: Catholic and Protestant clergy

question: What were Watch Tower Society directors jailed for?
answers: text: sedition

question: In what year did Joseph Franklin Rutherford become the legal representative of the Watch Tower Society?

question: Who was one of the prominent people that disputed Joseph Franklin Rutherford becoming the Watch Tower Society president?

question: Who was one of the Board of Directors for the Watch Tower Society in 1917?

question: In what year was the first of Russells Studies in the Scriptures series first published?

question: Who was one of the Watch Tower Society's directors jailed for sedition in 1918?
context: In January 1917, the Watch Tower Society's legal representative, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, was elected as its next president. His election was disputed, and members of the Board of Directors accused him of acting in an autocratic and secretive manner. The divisions between his supporters and opponents triggered a major turnover of members over the next decade. In June 1917, he released The Finished Mystery as a seventh volume of Russell's Studies in the Scriptures series. The book, published as the posthumous work of Russell, was a compilation of his commentaries on the Bible books of Ezekiel and Revelation, plus numerous additions by Bible Students Clayton Woodworth and George Fisher. It strongly criticized Catholic and Protestant clergy and Christian involvement in the Great War. As a result, Watch Tower Society directors were jailed for sedition under the Espionage Act in 1918 and members were subjected to mob violence; charges against the directors were dropped in 1920.

qas: question: What did Rutherford institute the appointment of in each congregation in 1919?
answers: text: a director

question: What were all members instructed to report weekly to the Brooklyn headquarters?
answers: text: preaching activity

question: Where as an international convention held in September of 1922?
answers: text: Cedar Point, Ohio

question: What was a new emphasis made on at the international convention?
answers: text: house-to-house preaching

question: How long was Rutherford's tenure as president of the Society?
answers: text: twenty-five years

question: In what month in 1920 did Rutherford claim that some Jewish patriarchs would be resurrected in 1925?

question: How many people attended the Cedar Point, Ohio, convention of the Watch Tower Society?

question: In what year did the first Bible Student organizations split from the Watch Tower Society?
context: Rutherford centralized organizational control of the Watch Tower Society. In 1919, he instituted the appointment of a director in each congregation, and a year later all members were instructed to report their weekly preaching activity to the Brooklyn headquarters. At an international convention held at Cedar Point, Ohio, in September 1922, a new emphasis was made on house-to-house preaching. Significant changes in doctrine and administration were regularly introduced during Rutherford's twenty-five years as president, including the 1920 announcement that the Jewish patriarchs (such as Abraham and Isaac) would be resurrected in 1925, marking the beginning of Christ's thousand-year Kingdom. Disappointed by the changes, tens of thousands of defections occurred during the first half of Rutherford's tenure, leading to the formation of several Bible Student organizations independent of the Watch Tower Society, most of which still exist. By mid-1919, as many as one in seven of Russell-era Bible Students had ceased their association with the Society, and as many as two-thirds by the end of the 1920s.

qas: question: When did Rutherford introduce the new name for the Society?
answers: text: July 26, 1931

question: What biblical passage was the name Jehovah's witnesses based on?
answers: text: Isaiah 43:10

question: What system did Rutherford eliminate in 1932?
answers: text: locally elected elders

question: Where were appointments in congregations worldwide made from?
answers: text: the Brooklyn headquarters

question: In what year did Rutherford take over leadership of the Watch Tower Society?

question: How were local elders selected by the Jehovah's Witnesses between 1932 and 1938?

question: In what month in 1932 did Rutherford eliminate the system of locally elected elders?

question: In what month in 1938 did Rutherford introduce a new theocratic organizational structure?
context: On July 26, 1931, at a convention in Columbus, Ohio, Rutherford introduced the new name—Jehovah's witnesses—based on Isaiah 43:10: "Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whom I have chosen"—which was adopted by resolution. The name was chosen to distinguish his group of Bible Students from other independent groups that had severed ties with the Society, as well as symbolize the instigation of new outlooks and the promotion of fresh evangelizing methods. In 1932, Rutherford eliminated the system of locally elected elders and in 1938, introduced what he called a "theocratic" (literally, God-ruled) organizational system, under which appointments in congregations worldwide were made from the Brooklyn headquarters.

qas: question: From when was it taught that the little flock would not be the only people to survive Armageddon?
answers: text: 1932

question: What was the number of the little flock set at?
answers: text: 144,000

question: Where would the great multitude live?
answers: text: a paradise restored on earth

question: All new converts to the movmeent since 1935 were considered part of what class?
answers: text: great multitude

question: When was the start of the last days moved to in the mid-1930s?
answers: text: 1914

question: In what year was Armageddon to occur according to Rutherford?

question: How many Jehovah's Witnesses were there as of 1935?

question: How many Jehovah's Witnesses had there been in 1914?

question: In what year did Rutherford die?
context: From 1932, it was taught that the "little flock" of 144,000 would not be the only people to survive Armageddon. Rutherford explained that in addition to the 144,000 "anointed" who would be resurrected—or transferred at death—to live in heaven to rule over earth with Christ, a separate class of members, the "great multitude," would live in a paradise restored on earth; from 1935, new converts to the movement were considered part of that class. By the mid-1930s, the timing of the beginning of Christ's presence (Greek: parousía), his enthronement as king, and the start of the "last days" were each moved to 1914.

qas: question: Who was appointed as the third president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in 1942?
answers: text: Nathan Knorr

question: What did Knorr commission?
answers: text: a new translation of the Bible

question: When was the full version of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures released?
answers: text: in 1961

question: What was Knorr's presidency marked by the increasing use of?
answers: text: explicit instructions guiding Witnesses

question: What was greater use of congregational judicial procedures used to enforce?
answers: text: a strict moral code

question: In what year did Nathan Knorr commission a new translation of the Bible?

question: In what year did Nathan Knorr organize his first international assembly?

question: In what year did Nathan Knorr start demanding Jehovah's Witnesses start following a strict moral code?

question: In what year did Nathan Knorr issue general instructions to guide Witnesses?

question: In what year did Nathan Knorr introduce his first new training program?
context: Nathan Knorr was appointed as third president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in 1942. Knorr commissioned a new translation of the Bible, the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, the full version of which was released in 1961. He organized large international assemblies, instituted new training programs for members, and expanded missionary activity and branch offices throughout the world. Knorr's presidency was also marked by an increasing use of explicit instructions guiding Witnesses in their lifestyle and conduct, and a greater use of congregational judicial procedures to enforce a strict moral code.

qas: question: From 1966, what did Witness publications and conventions think would happen in late 1975?
answers: text: Christ's thousand-year reign

question: How many baptisms were there in 1974?
answers: text: more than 297,000

question: How many active members were there in 1975?
answers: text: two million

question: Why did membership decline in the late 1970s?
answers: text: after expectations for 1975 were proved wrong

question: What did the Watch Tower Society admit in 1980?
answers: text: its responsibility in building up hope

question: In what year did Witnesses decide to put off Armageddon until late 1975 instead of their earlier year?

question: How many Witnesses were baptized in 1975?

question: How many Witnesses were there in the United States in 1966?

question: What was one of the major changes that occurred in 1975?

question: How many Witnesses were there in 1980?
context: From 1966, Witness publications and convention talks built anticipation of the possibility that Christ's thousand-year reign might begin in late 1975 or shortly thereafter. The number of baptisms increased significantly, from about 59,000 in 1966 to more than 297,000 in 1974. By 1975, the number of active members exceeded two million. Membership declined during the late 1970s after expectations for 1975 were proved wrong. Watch Tower Society literature did not state dogmatically that 1975 would definitely mark the end, but in 1980 the Watch Tower Society admitted its responsibility in building up hope regarding that year.

qas: question: When was the offices of restored to the Witness congregations?
answers: text: 1972

question: Starting in September 2014, who was responsible for making appointments in the Church?
answers: text: traveling overseers

question: In 1976 whose power in Watch Tower Society was diminished?
answers: text: president

question: When did Knorr die? 
answers: text: 1977

question: Who has been president of the Society since 2000?
answers: text: Don A. Adams

question: In what year did branch committees start to make appointments?

question: Who was one of the members of the Governing Body in 1977?

question: Who was one of the members of the Governing Body in 1995?
context: The offices of elder and ministerial servant were restored to Witness congregations in 1972, with appointments made from headquarters (and later, also by branch committees). It was announced that, starting in September 2014, appointments would be made by traveling overseers. In a major organizational overhaul in 1976, the power of the Watch Tower Society president was diminished, with authority for doctrinal and organizational decisions passed to the Governing Body. Since Knorr's death in 1977, the position of president has been occupied by Frederick Franz (1977–1992) and Milton Henschel (1992–2000), both members of the Governing Body, and since 2000 by Don A. Adams, not a member of the Governing Body. In 1995, Jehovah's Witnesses abandoned the idea that Armageddon must occur during the lives of the generation that was alive in 1914 and in 2013 changed their teaching on the "generation".

qas: question: How are Jehovah Witnesses organized?
answers: text: hierarchically

question: What does the theocratic organization of Jehovah Witnesses reflect on Earth?
answers: text: God's "visible organization"

question: What gender are all the members of the Governing Body?
answers: text: male

question: How many members does the Governing Body consist of?
answers: text: seven

question: Who does the Governing Body direct?
answers: text: several committees

question: How many Governing Body members were there in late 2012?

question: How many self-professed "anointed" Jehovah's Witnesses were there as of 2012 in the United States?

question: How many traveling overseers are there?

question: How many circuits of congregations make up the Jehovah's Witnesses organization?

question: How many "anointed" Jehovah's Witnesses were there as of 2014?
context: Jehovah's Witnesses are organized hierarchically, in what the leadership calls a "theocratic organization", reflecting their belief that it is God's "visible organization" on earth. The organization is led by the Governing Body—an all-male group that varies in size, but since early 2014 has comprised seven members,[note 1] all of whom profess to be of the "anointed" class with a hope of heavenly life—based in the Watch Tower Society's Brooklyn headquarters. There is no election for membership; new members are selected by the existing body. Until late 2012, the Governing Body described itself as the representative and "spokesman" for God's "faithful and discreet slave class" (approximately 10,000 self-professed "anointed" Jehovah's Witnesses). At the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Watch Tower Society, the "faithful and discreet slave" was defined as referring to the Governing Body only. The Governing Body directs several committees that are responsible for administrative functions, including publishing, assembly programs and evangelizing activities. It appoints all branch committee members and traveling overseers, after they have been recommended by local branches, with traveling overseers supervising circuits of congregations within their jurisdictions. Traveling overseers appoint local elders and ministerial servants, and while branch offices may appoint regional committees for matters such as Kingdom Hall construction or disaster relief.

qas: question: What does each congregation have?
answers: text: a body of appointed unpaid male elders

question: Whose responsibility is it to conduct meetings and decide action for cases involving sexual misconduct?
answers: text: Elders

question: Who appoints new elders?
answers: text: a traveling overseer

question: What does the title of elder not signify?
answers: text: a formal clergy-laity division

question: What ecclesiastical privilege may elders employ?
answers: text: confession of sins

question: Who sets teaching times?

question: Who does public preaching work?

question: What is the title used for ministerial servants?

question: Who among the Witnesses does formal clergy-laity?

question: Who appoints traveling overseers?
context: Each congregation has a body of appointed unpaid male elders and ministerial servants. Elders maintain general responsibility for congregational governance, setting meeting times, selecting speakers and conducting meetings, directing the public preaching work, and creating "judicial committees" to investigate and decide disciplinary action for cases involving sexual misconduct or doctrinal breaches. New elders are appointed by a traveling overseer after recommendation by the existing body of elders. Ministerial servants—appointed in a similar manner to elders—fulfill clerical and attendant duties, but may also teach and conduct meetings. Witnesses do not use elder as a title to signify a formal clergy-laity division, though elders may employ ecclesiastical privilege such as confession of sins.

qas: question: What is a requirement for being considered a member of Jehovah's Witnesses?
answers: text: Baptism

question: What aren't considered valid when performed by other denominations?
answers: text: previous baptisms

question: What do Witness publications say baptism symbolizes a person's personal dedication to?
answers: text: God

question: Jehovah Witnesses' literature puts emphasis on the obedience to not only Jehovah but also to his what?
answers: text: organization

question: Individuals must remain Jehovah Witnesses if they wish to receive what from God?
answers: text: favor

question: At what age does a Jehovah's Witness do baptism?

question: What is the name of one of the Jehovah's Witnesses publications?

question: What do people undergoing baptism affirm privately?

question: Will an unbaptized infant survive or not if a sudden Armageddon were to occur?
context: Baptism is a requirement for being considered a member of Jehovah's Witnesses. Jehovah's Witnesses do not practice infant baptism, and previous baptisms performed by other denominations are not considered valid. Individuals undergoing baptism must affirm publicly that dedication and baptism identify them "as one of Jehovah's Witnesses in association with God's spirit-directed organization," though Witness publications say baptism symbolizes personal dedication to God and not "to a man, work or organization." Their literature emphasizes the need for members to be obedient and loyal to Jehovah and to "his organization,"[note 2] stating that individuals must remain part of it to receive God's favor and to survive Armageddon.

qas: question: What do Jehovah Witnesses believe their religion is a restoration of?
answers: text: first-century Christianity

question: Who establishes the doctrines of the Jehovah Witnesses? 
answers: text: the Governing Body

question: Where does the Governing Body express its doctrinal position?
answers: text: through publications published by the Watch Tower Society

question: How does God reveal his will and purpose?
answers: text: gradually

question: What is the Jehovah Witnesses' leadership said to provide?
answers: text: divine guidance

question: What is one of the publications put out by the Watch Tower Society?

question: What religion claims their top official is infallible?

question: What did first-century Christians call themselves?

question: Whose decision was it that members of the Governing Body have "deep truths" imparted to them by the holy spirit?
context: Jehovah's Witnesses believe their religion is a restoration of first-century Christianity. Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses are established by the Governing Body, which assumes responsibility for interpreting and applying scripture. The Governing Body does not issue any single, comprehensive "statement of faith", but prefers to express its doctrinal position in a variety of ways through publications published by the Watch Tower Society. Their publications teach that doctrinal changes and refinements result from a process of progressive revelation, in which God gradually reveals his will and purpose, and that such enlightenment or "new light" results from the application of reason and study, the guidance of the holy spirit, and direction from Jesus Christ and angels. The Society also teaches that members of the Governing Body are helped by the holy spirit to discern "deep truths", which are then considered by the entire Governing Body before it makes doctrinal decisions. The religion's leadership, while disclaiming divine inspiration and infallibility, is said to provide "divine guidance" through its teachings described as "based on God's Word thus ... not from men, but from Jehovah."

qas: question: What is considered the inspired, inerrant word of God?
answers: text: The entire Protestant canon

question: What do Jehovah Witnesses consider the science and history within the Bible to be?
answers: text: accurate

question: Whose pronouncements within Jehovah Witnesses group are considered to carry almost as much weight as the Bible?
answers: text: the Governing Body

question: What are members of Jehovah Witnesses cautioned against reading?
answers: text: other religious literature

question: What is there no provision for members of the Jehovah Witnesses to do in relation to the official teachings?
answers: text: criticize or contribute

question:  Who is the outside foremost authority on Jehovah's Witnesses?

question: How often do many Jehovah's Witnesses read other religions literature?

question: What religion gives their adherents a lot of leeway in regards to abiding by its doctrines?

question: How often does Watch Tower Society put out publications nowadays?

question: In what publication was Andrew Holden's ethnographic study of Jehovah's Witnesses published?
context: The entire Protestant canon of scripture is considered the inspired, inerrant word of God. Jehovah's Witnesses consider the Bible to be scientifically and historically accurate and reliable and interpret much of it literally, but accept parts of it as symbolic. They consider the Bible to be the final authority for all their beliefs, although sociologist Andrew Holden's ethnographic study of the religion concluded that pronouncements of the Governing Body, through Watch Tower Society publications, carry almost as much weight as the Bible. Regular personal Bible reading is frequently recommended; Witnesses are discouraged from formulating doctrines and "private ideas" reached through Bible research independent of Watch Tower Society publications, and are cautioned against reading other religious literature. Adherents are told to have "complete confidence" in the leadership, avoid skepticism about what is taught in the Watch Tower Society's literature, and "not advocate or insist on personal opinions or harbor private ideas when it comes to Bible understanding." The religion makes no provision for members to criticize or contribute to official teachings and all Witnesses must abide by its doctrines and organizational requirements.

qas: question: Who do Jehovah Witnesses believe is God's only direct creation?
answers: text: Jesus

question: What was Jesus a ransom sacrifice to pay for?
answers: text: the sins of humanity

question: What do Jehovah Witnesses believe Jesus died on rather than a traditional cross?
answers: text: a single upright post

question: Jesus is considered to be the only what between God and humanity?
answers: text: intercessor and high priest

question: What biblical passage outlines Jesus' role as a mediator?
answers: text: 1 Timothy 2:5

question: What Christian religion believes Jesus died on a cross?

question: What do Catholics think God created?

question: Who do Catholics think Archangel Michael is?

question: Which religion believes people are free of original sin?

question: Who do Catholics think Abaddon is?
context: Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus is God's only direct creation, that everything else was created by means of Christ, and that the initial unassisted act of creation uniquely identifies Jesus as God's "only-begotten Son". Jesus served as a redeemer and a ransom sacrifice to pay for the sins of humanity. They believe Jesus died on a single upright post rather than the traditional cross. They believe that references in the Bible to the Archangel Michael, Abaddon (Apollyon), and the Word all refer to Jesus. Jesus is considered to be the only intercessor and high priest between God and humanity, and appointed by God as the king and judge of his kingdom. His role as a mediator (referred to in 1 Timothy 2:5) is applied to the 'anointed' class, though the 'other sheep' are said to also benefit from the arrangement.

qas: question: Jehovah Witnesses believe who will go to heaven?
answers: text: a "little flock"

question: Where will God resurrected the "other sheep" after Armageddon?
answers: text: a cleansed earth

question: Jehovah Witnesses interrupted Revelation 14:1-5 to limit heaven goers to exactly what number?
answers: text: 144,000

question: Who is the final Judge of whether Jehovah Witnesses get to survive Armageddon?
answers: text: God

question: What will people need to study for during Christ's millennial reign?
answers: text: their final test at the end of the millennium

question: How many Jehovah Witnesses exist today?

question: How many Christians go to heaven according to Catholics?

question: What do most Protestant religions believe in regards to how many people get to go to heaven?

question: How many "other sheep" get to be resurrected by God after the Armageddon according to Jehovah's Witnesses?
context: Witnesses believe that a "little flock" go to heaven, but that the hope for life after death for the majority of "other sheep" involves being resurrected by God to a cleansed earth after Armageddon. They interpret Revelation 14:1–5 to mean that the number of Christians going to heaven is limited to exactly 144,000, who will rule with Jesus as kings and priests over earth. Jehovah's Witnesses teach that only they meet scriptural requirements for surviving Armageddon, but that God is the final judge. During Christ's millennial reign, most people who died prior to Armageddon will be resurrected with the prospect of living forever; they will be taught the proper way to worship God to prepare them for their final test at the end of the millennium.

qas: question: What do Jehovah Witnesses believe of God's kingdom?
answers: text: a literal government in heaven

question: Who rules with Jesus Christ in heaven according to Jehovah Witnesses?
answers: text: 144,000 "spirit-anointed" Christians

question: What do the Jehovah Witnesses believe God will use the kingdom in heaven for?
answers: text: accomplish his original purpose for the earth

question: What will the Earth be transformed into?
answers: text: a paradise without sickness or death

question: When do Jehovah Witnesses believe the kingdom of heaven was established?
answers: text: 1914

question: How many Jehovah's Witnesses were there in 1914?

question: How many Jehovah's Witnesses are there now?

question: How many Jehovah's Witnesses get to serve as Jesus's reps on Earth at any given time?

question: How many people will get to live in a paradise free of sickness and death according to Jehovah's Witnesses?
context: Jehovah's Witnesses believe that God's kingdom is a literal government in heaven, ruled by Jesus Christ and 144,000 "spirit-anointed" Christians drawn from the earth, which they associate with Jesus' reference to a "new covenant". The kingdom is viewed as the means by which God will accomplish his original purpose for the earth, transforming it into a paradise without sickness or death. It is said to have been the focal point of Jesus' ministry on earth. They believe the kingdom was established in heaven in 1914, and that Jehovah's Witnesses serve as representatives of the kingdom on earth.

qas: question: One of Jehovah Witnesses' central teachings is that the world entered into its last days at what year?
answers: text: 1914

question: What do Jehovah Witnesses consider all other present day religions to be?
answers: text: false

question: Who do Jehovah Witnesses think is out to destroy them?
answers: text: the United Nations

question: Who needs to attack Jehovah Witnesses for God to begin the war of Armageddon?
answers: text: Satan

question: What will be the end result of God's kingdom?
answers: text: a fully tested, glorified human race

question: In what year was the United Nations formed?

question: Where does everyone go who isn't destroyed along with Satan and his demons?

question: In what year did the Jehovah's Witnesses religion get formed?

question: How many demons will Satan be leading?

question: What happens to those who died during God's intervention?
context: A central teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses is that the current world era, or "system of things", entered the "last days" in 1914 and faces imminent destruction through intervention by God and Jesus Christ, leading to deliverance for those who worship God acceptably. They consider all other present-day religions to be false, identifying them with "Babylon the Great", or the "harlot", of Revelation 17, and believe that they will soon be destroyed by the United Nations, which they believe is represented in scripture by the scarlet-colored wild beast of Revelation chapter 17. This development will mark the beginning of the "great tribulation". Satan will subsequently attack Jehovah's Witnesses, an action that will prompt God to begin the war of Armageddon, during which all forms of government and all people not counted as Christ's "sheep", or true followers, will be destroyed. After Armageddon, God will extend his heavenly kingdom to include earth, which will be transformed into a paradise similar to the Garden of Eden. After Armageddon, most of those who had died before God's intervention will gradually be resurrected during "judgment day" lasting for one thousand years. This judgment will be based on their actions after resurrection rather than past deeds. At the end of the thousand years, Christ will hand all authority back to God. Then a final test will take place when Satan is released to mislead perfect mankind. Those who fail will be destroyed, along with Satan and his demons. The end result will be a fully tested, glorified human race.

qas: question: On what date do Jehovah Witnesses believe Jesus Christ began his rule as a king in God's kingdom?
answers: text: October 1914

question: What happened to Satan when Jesus started his rule?
answers: text: ousted from heaven

question: How do Jehovah Witnesses believe that Jesus rules?
answers: text: invisibly

question: How is the Greek word parousia translated when referring to Christ?
answers: text: "coming"

question: When will Jesus' presence end?
answers: text: when he comes to bring a final judgment

question: In what month of 1914 was Satan tossed out of heaven?

question: What do most Greek scholars think "presence" translates to in Greek?

question: How do Jehovah's Witnesses think Satan appears to people on Earth since 1914?

question: When do Jehovah's Witnesses now think Armageddon is going to strike?
context: Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus Christ began to rule in heaven as king of God's kingdom in October 1914, and that Satan was subsequently ousted from heaven to the earth, resulting in "woe" to humanity. They believe that Jesus rules invisibly, from heaven, perceived only as a series of "signs". They base this belief on a rendering of the Greek word parousia—usually translated as "coming" when referring to Christ—as "presence". They believe Jesus' presence includes an unknown period beginning with his inauguration as king in heaven in 1914, and ending when he comes to bring a final judgment against humans on earth. They thus depart from the mainstream Christian belief that the "second coming" of Matthew 24 refers to a single moment of arrival on earth to judge humans.

qas: question: Where do Jehovah Witnesses meet for worship and study?
answers: text: Kingdom Halls

question: How are Jehovah Witnesses assigned to congregations?
answers: text: "territory" they usually reside

question: What do Jehovah Witnesses refer to their weekly services as?
answers: text: meetings

question: How often did Jehovah Witnesses congregations meet prior to 2009?
answers: text: three times each week

question: What are Jehovah Witnesses' gatherings opened and closed with?
answers: text: songs (hymns) and brief prayers

question: How many witnesses are there at each Kingdom Hall?

question: How many "circuits" are there of Kingdom Halls?

question: What takes place during "family worship" typically?

question: How many regular meetings does each Kingdom Hall have during the Jehovah's Witnesses annual three-day "regional convention"?

question: Prior to 2009 how many Kingdom Hall meeting were held during the weekends?
context: Meetings for worship and study are held at Kingdom Halls, which are typically functional in character, and do not contain religious symbols. Witnesses are assigned to a congregation in whose "territory" they usually reside and attend weekly services they refer to as "meetings" as scheduled by congregation elders. The meetings are largely devoted to study of Watch Tower Society literature and the Bible. The format of the meetings is established by the religion's headquarters, and the subject matter for most meetings is the same worldwide. Congregations meet for two sessions each week comprising five distinct meetings that total about three-and-a-half hours, typically gathering mid-week (three meetings) and on the weekend (two meetings). Prior to 2009, congregations met three times each week; these meetings were condensed, with the intention that members dedicate an evening for "family worship". Gatherings are opened and closed with kingdom songs (hymns) and brief prayers. Twice each year, Witnesses from a number of congregations that form a "circuit" gather for a one-day assembly. Larger groups of congregations meet once a year for a three-day "regional convention", usually at rented stadiums or auditoriums. Their most important and solemn event is the commemoration of the "Lord's Evening Meal", or "Memorial of Christ's Death" on the date of the Jewish Passover.

qas: question: What are Jehovah Witnesses probably best known for by outsiders?
answers: text: their efforts to spread their beliefs

question: How many languages is the Watch Tower Society literature published in?
answers: text: 700

question: What is the objective of Jehovah Witnesses' door to door ministry?
answers: text: start a regular "Bible study"

question: When are Jehovah Witnesses advised to discontinue Bibles studies with students?
answers: text: show no interest in becoming members

question: What are baptized members who fail to report a month of preaching termed as?
answers: text: irregular

question: How many doors does the average Jehovah's Witnesses knock on each month?

question: What do most people do when a Jehovah's Witness knocks on their door?

question: What happens to a Jehovah's Witness that is determined to be "inactive"?

question: How many people are baptized as a Jehovah's Witness each year?
context: Jehovah's Witnesses are perhaps best known for their efforts to spread their beliefs, most notably by visiting people from house to house, distributing literature published by the Watch Tower Society in 700 languages. The objective is to start a regular "Bible study" with any person who is not already a member, with the intention that the student be baptized as a member of the group; Witnesses are advised to consider discontinuing Bible studies with students who show no interest in becoming members. Witnesses are taught they are under a biblical command to engage in public preaching. They are instructed to devote as much time as possible to their ministry and are required to submit an individual monthly "Field Service Report". Baptized members who fail to report a month of preaching are termed "irregular" and may be counseled by elders; those who do not submit reports for six consecutive months are termed "inactive".

qas: question: What is Jehovah Witnesses' view of divorce?
answers: text: discouraged

question: What is an acceptable grounds for divorce for a Jehovah Witness?
answers: text: adultery

question: What do Jehovah Witnesses considered remarriage when the reason for divorce wasn't adultery?
answers: text: adulterous

question: Jehovah Witnesses will allow what in the event of extreme physical abuse or absolute endangerment of spirituality?
answers: text: legal separation

question: What is remarriage considered as by most modern Protestant people?

question: If a person suffers extreme physical abuse by their spouse what do most Protestant religions allow for?

question: In most Christian religions willfully non-supporting one's family will result in what?

question: When is remarriage encouraged by Jehovah's Witnesses?
context: Divorce is discouraged, and remarriage is forbidden unless a divorce is obtained on the grounds of adultery, which they refer to as "a scriptural divorce". If a divorce is obtained for any other reason, remarriage is considered adulterous unless the prior spouse has died or is since considered to have committed sexual immorality. Extreme physical abuse, willful non-support of one's family, and what the religion terms "absolute endangerment of spirituality" are considered grounds for legal separation.

qas: question: Who administers formal discipline?
answers: text: congregation elders

question: What is formed when a baptized member is accused of doing something serious enough for Jehovah Witnesses to take notice?
answers: text: a judicial committee

question: What is the strongest form of discipline the Jehovah Witnesses' judicial committee can render?
answers: text: Disfellowshipping

question: What are Jehovah Witnesses taught that avoiding social and spiritual interaction with disfellowshipped individuals does?
answers: text: keeps the congregation free from immoral influence

question: What do Jehovah Witnesses describe anyone who formally resign from the church as?
answers: text: wicked

question: How is informal discipline meted out by Jehovah's Witnesses?

question: What happens if an unbaptized member, due to age, is accused of committing a serious sin?

question: Who do members that disassociate from Witnesses get to continue interacting with?

question: How long does Marking last if someone has willfully violated a Bible principle but didn't commit a serious sin?
context: Formal discipline is administered by congregation elders. When a baptized member is accused of committing a serious sin—usually cases of sexual misconduct or charges of apostasy for disputing Jehovah's Witness doctrines—a judicial committee is formed to determine guilt, provide help and possibly administer discipline. Disfellowshipping, a form of shunning, is the strongest form of discipline, administered to an offender deemed unrepentant. Contact with disfellowshipped individuals is limited to direct family members living in the same home, and with congregation elders who may invite disfellowshipped persons to apply for reinstatement; formal business dealings may continue if contractually or financially obliged. Witnesses are taught that avoiding social and spiritual interaction with disfellowshipped individuals keeps the congregation free from immoral influence and that "losing precious fellowship with loved ones may help [the shunned individual] to come 'to his senses,' see the seriousness of his wrong, and take steps to return to Jehovah." The practice of shunning may also serve to deter other members from dissident behavior. Members who disassociate (formally resign) are described in Watch Tower Society literature as wicked and are also shunned. Expelled individuals may eventually be reinstated to the congregation if deemed repentant by elders in the congregation in which the disfellowshipping was enforced. Reproof is a lesser form of discipline given formally by a judicial committee to a baptized Witness who is considered repentant of serious sin; the reproved person temporarily loses conspicuous privileges of service, but suffers no restriction of social or spiritual fellowship. Marking, a curtailing of social but not spiritual fellowship, is practiced if a baptized member persists in a course of action regarded as a violation of Bible principles but not a serious sin.[note 4]

qas: question: Why do Jehovah Witnesses believe the Bible condemns mixing of religions?
answers: text: can only be one truth from God

question: What do Jehovah Witnesses believe is true of their religion and their religion alone?
answers: text: represents true Christianity

question: What are Jehovah Witnesses taught it's vital to remain?
answers: text: "separate from the world."

question: What does Jehovah Witnesses define the "world" to mean?
answers: text: "the mass of mankind apart from Jehovah's approved servants"

question: What are Jehovah Witnesses taught association with worldly people presents to their faith?
answers: text: danger

question: What Protestant religion is open to talking with outsiders?

question: What Protestant religion encourage interacting with the broader world?

question: What Protestant group is fine with the mixing of religions?

question: What Protestant group thinks there can be many truths from God?
context: Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Bible condemns the mixing of religions, on the basis that there can only be one truth from God, and therefore reject interfaith and ecumenical movements. They believe that only their religion represents true Christianity, and that other religions fail to meet all the requirements set by God and will soon be destroyed. Jehovah's Witnesses are taught that it is vital to remain "separate from the world." The Witnesses' literature defines the "world" as "the mass of mankind apart from Jehovah's approved servants" and teach that it is morally contaminated and ruled by Satan. Witnesses are taught that association with "worldly" people presents a "danger" to their faith, and are instructed to minimize social contact with non-members to better maintain their own standards of morality.

qas: question: Who is king of God's kingdom in heaven?
answers: text: Christ

question: What do Jehovah Witnesses remain politically?
answers: text: neutral

question: What are Jehovah Witnesses discouraged from doing?
answers: text: voting

question: Why do Jehovah Witnesses forego religious holidays and birthdays or other celebrations?
answers: text: they consider to honor people other than Jesus

question: What do Jehovah Witnesses feel all the traditional holidays reflect?
answers: text: Satan's control over the world

question: What Protestant group encourages their members to celebrate Easter?

question: What Protestant religion encourages members to vote in elections?

question: What is one of the Protestant religions that thinks it's fun to celebrate their kid's birthdays?

question: What is one of the Protestant religions that thinks celebrating things other than Jesus are ok?

question: What is one of the Protestant religions that enjoys celebrating Christmas with one another?
context: Jehovah's Witnesses believe their highest allegiance belongs to God's kingdom, which is viewed as an actual government in heaven, with Christ as king. They remain politically neutral, do not seek public office, and are discouraged from voting, though individual members may participate in uncontroversial community improvement issues. Although they do not take part in politics, they respect the authority of the governments under which they live. They do not celebrate religious holidays such as Christmas and Easter, nor do they observe birthdays, nationalistic holidays, or other celebrations they consider to honor people other than Jesus. They feel that these and many other customs have pagan origins or reflect a nationalistic or political spirit. Their position is that these traditional holidays reflect Satan's control over the world. Witnesses are told that spontaneous giving at other times can help their children to not feel deprived of birthdays or other celebrations.

qas: question: What industries do Jehovah Witnesses avoid working in?
answers: text: associated with the military

question: What may a Jehovah Witnesses' refusal to serve in the natural military service result in, in some countries?
answers: text: their arrest and imprisonment

question: What do Jehovah Witnesses see themselves as, which transcends national boundaries and ethnic loyalties?
answers: text: a worldwide brotherhood

question: What profession is Ronald Lawson?
answers: text: Sociologist

question: What does Lawson suggest has contributed to the consistency of the sense of urgency in Jehovah Witnesses' apocalyptic message?
answers: text: intellectual and organizational isolation

question:  Who is one of the most prominent outside supporters of Witnesses?

question: Who suggested that Jehovah's Witnesses live socially healthy lives free of paranoia about others not of their religion?

question: What religion is Sociologist Ronald Lawson?

question: What is one of the Protestant religion which is fine with their members joining the military?

question: What are United Methodists allowed to do?
context: They do not work in industries associated with the military, do not serve in the armed services, and refuse national military service, which in some countries may result in their arrest and imprisonment. They do not salute or pledge allegiance to flags or sing national anthems or patriotic songs. Jehovah's Witnesses see themselves as a worldwide brotherhood that transcends national boundaries and ethnic loyalties. Sociologist Ronald Lawson has suggested the religion's intellectual and organizational isolation, coupled with the intense indoctrination of adherents, rigid internal discipline and considerable persecution, has contributed to the consistency of its sense of urgency in its apocalyptic message.

qas: question: What biblical passage informs Jehovah Witnesses' refusal of blood transfusions?
answers: text: Acts 15:28, 29

question: What is grounds for expulsion from Jehovah Witnesses, since 1961?
answers: text: willing acceptance of a blood transfusion

question: What do Jehovah Witnesses accept in lieu of blood transfusions?
answers: text: non-blood alternatives

question: What does Jehovah Witnesses' literature provide about non-blood medical procedures?
answers: text: information

question: What is one of the Protestant religions who don't see blood transfusions as a big deal?

question: When was the first non-blood alternative developed for blood transfusions?

question: How many Jehovah's Witnesses have died in the past decade due to their refusal of blood transfusions?

question: How many Jehovah's Witnesses have been expelled in the past decade for accepting a blood transfusion?
context: Jehovah's Witnesses refuse blood transfusions, which they consider a violation of God's law based on their interpretation of Acts 15:28, 29 and other scriptures. Since 1961 the willing acceptance of a blood transfusion by an unrepentant member has been grounds for expulsion from the religion. Members are directed to refuse blood transfusions, even in "a life-or-death situation". Jehovah's Witnesses accept non-blood alternatives and other medical procedures in lieu of blood transfusions, and their literature provides information about non-blood medical procedures.

qas: question: What are Jehovah Witnesses allowed to accept at their discretion? 
answers: text: blood plasma fractions

question: What pre-formatted durable power of attorney documents are provided by the Watch Tower Society to prohibit?
answers: text: major blood components

question: What can Jehovah's Witnesses' members specify on the canned legal forms from the WTS?
answers: text: allowable fractions and treatments they will personally accept

question: What cooperative arrangement did Jehovah's Witnesses establish?
answers: text: Hospital Liaison Committees

question: The Hospital Liaison Committees serve to bridge between hospitals, medical professionals and who?
answers: text: individual Jehovah's Witnesses

question: What is one of the Protestant religions who are fine with blood transfusions?

question: Who decides what the limit is for allowable fractions of blood plasma fractions?

question: What is one of the career paths many Jehovah's Witnesses choose to take?

question: Who do most Witnesses get guidance from in regards to how much blood plasma fractions they are willing to accept?
context: Though Jehovah's Witnesses do not accept blood transfusions of whole blood, they may accept some blood plasma fractions at their own discretion. The Watch Tower Society provides pre-formatted durable power of attorney documents prohibiting major blood components, in which members can specify which allowable fractions and treatments they will personally accept. Jehovah's Witnesses have established Hospital Liaison Committees as a cooperative arrangement between individual Jehovah's Witnesses and medical professionals and hospitals.

qas: question: What term do Jehovah's Witnesses use for members actively involved in preaching?
answers: text: publishers

question: How many publishers did the Jehovah's Witnesses have as of August 2015?
answers: text: 8.2 million

question: How many congregations did the Jehovah's Witnesses have in 2015?
answers: text: 118,016

question: Over how many hours had Jehovah's Witnesses spent preaching and in "Bible study" activity in 2015?
answers: text: 1.93 billion

question: What do Jehovah's Witnesses their worldwide growth rate to be?
answers: text: 1.5% per year

question: How many preaching members of the Witnesses are there in the United States?

question: How many children were involved in "Bible studies" in 2015?

question: How fast was Jehovah's Witnesses growing in the mid-1990s per year?

question: How much time was spent in just preaching time since 2015?

question: How much time was spent in just "Bible study" since 2015?
context: As of August 2015, Jehovah's Witnesses report an average of 8.2 million publishers—the term they use for members actively involved in preaching—in 118,016 congregations. In 2015, these reports indicated over 1.93 billion hours spent in preaching and "Bible study" activity. Since the mid-1990s, the number of peak publishers has increased from 4.5 million to 8.2 million. In the same year, they conducted "Bible studies" with over 9.7 million individuals, including those conducted by Witness parents with their children. Jehovah's Witnesses estimate their current worldwide growth rate to be 1.5% per year.

qas: question: Where do the officially published membership statistics come from?
answers: text: those who submit reports for their personal ministry

question: Only about half all Jehovah's Witnesses are actually considered what in the faith itself?
answers: text: active

question: What did a 2008 US Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey discover about Jehovah's Witnesses' retention rate?
answers: text: low

question: Only about what percentage of the people raised in the religion continue to identify themselves as Jehovah's Witnesses?
answers: text: 37%

question: According to a 2008 US Pew Forum report how many Protestants identify as still active in the faith they grew up in?

question: What percentage of people who join the Jehovah's Witnesses as an adult end up being considered as inactive?

question: What percentage of Jehovah's Witnesses end up getting disfellowshipped?

question: In what year did US Pew Forum issue their first Religion & Public Life survey?
context: The official published membership statistics, such as those mentioned above, include only those who submit reports for their personal ministry; official statistics do not include inactive and disfellowshipped individuals or others who might attend their meetings. As a result, only about half of those who self-identified as Jehovah's Witnesses in independent demographic studies are considered active by the faith itself. The 2008 US Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey found a low retention rate among members of the religion: about 37% of people raised in the religion continued to identify themselves as Jehovah's Witnesses.

qas: question: What is the profession of James A. Beckford?
answers: text: Sociologist

question: When did Beckford study the Jehovah's Witnesses?
answers: text: 1975

question: What did Beckford classify the Jehovah's Witnesses organizational structure as being?
answers: text: Totalizing

question: What is the conviction that Jehovah's Witness leaders dispense absolute truth?
answers: text: absolutism

question: What is the term for Jehovah's Witnesses' rejection of certain secular requirements and medical treatments?
answers: text: world indifference

question: Who issued a positive report about Jehovah's Witnesses in 1975?

question: What is a profession that Jehovah's Witnesses aren't allowed to do?

question: When was the last time there was a doctrinal change for Jehovah's Witnesses?

question: In what year did James A. Beckford graduate from college?

question: Who claimed there was a low rate of turnover among Jehovah's Witnesses?
context: Sociologist James A. Beckford, in his 1975 study of Jehovah's Witnesses, classified the religion's organizational structure as Totalizing, characterized by an assertive leadership, specific and narrow objectives, control over competing demands on members' time and energy, and control over the quality of new members. Other characteristics of the classification include likelihood of friction with secular authorities, reluctance to co-operate with other religious organizations, a high rate of membership turnover, a low rate of doctrinal change, and strict uniformity of beliefs among members. Beckford identified the religion's chief characteristics as historicism (identifying historical events as relating to the outworking of God's purpose), absolutism (conviction that Jehovah's Witness leaders dispense absolute truth), activism (capacity to motivate members to perform missionary tasks), rationalism (conviction that Witness doctrines have a rational basis devoid of mystery), authoritarianism (rigid presentation of regulations without the opportunity for criticism) and world indifference (rejection of certain secular requirements and medical treatments).

qas: question: Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States ranked highest in people whose education extended no further than what?
answers: text: high school graduation

question: Compared to other religions, Jehovah's Witnesses have the highest frequency of doing what with the Bible outside of religious services?
answers: text: reading

question: What religion ranks highest in frequency of religious attendance? 
answers: text: Jehovah's Witnesses

question: Statistically, what is a Jehovah's Witnesses likely not to care about at all?
answers: text: politics

question: What do few Jehovah's Witnesses earn?
answers: text: a graduate degree

question: The members of what religion have a lot of university degrees?

question: Educational aspiration is a hallmark of what Protestant religion?

question: What is one of the Protestant religions that encourages people to be engaged in politics?

question: What is one of the Protestant religions that is realistic about the time commitment of their members to their religion?

question:  What is one of the Protestant religions open to the ideas of other people?
context: A sociological comparative study by the Pew Research Center found that Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States ranked highest in statistics for getting no further than high school graduation, belief in God, importance of religion in one's life, frequency of religious attendance, frequency of prayers, frequency of Bible reading outside of religious services, belief their prayers are answered, belief that their religion can only be interpreted one way, belief that theirs is the only one true faith leading to eternal life, opposition to abortion, and opposition to homosexuality. In the study, Jehovah's Witnesses ranked lowest in statistics for having earned a graduate degree and interest in politics.

qas: question: What has at times led to immense violence against Jehovah's Witnesses?
answers: text: Political and religious animosity

question: Why have Jehovah's Witnesses sometimes been imprisoned?
answers: text: doctrine of political neutrality and their refusal to serve in the military

question: Of the 20,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany in 1933, how many were later imprisoned?
answers: text: 10,000

question: What were Jehovah's Witnesses identified by in Nazi concentration camps?
answers: text: purple triangles

question: What countries ban the religious activities of Jehovah's Witnesses?
answers: text: China, Vietnam and some Islamic states

question: How many Jehovah's Witnesses were there in Canada at the start of World War II?

question: How many Jehovah's Witnesses were there in the Soviet Union at the start of World War II?

question: How many Jehovah's Witnesses died in the Soviet Union during World War II?

question: How many Jehovah's Witnesses escaped Germany during World War II?

question: How many Jehovah's Witnesses are there thought to be in China today?
context: Political and religious animosity against Jehovah's Witnesses has at times led to mob action and government oppression in various countries. Their doctrine of political neutrality and their refusal to serve in the military has led to imprisonment of members who refused conscription during World War II and at other times where national service has been compulsory. In 1933, there were approximately 20,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany, of whom about 10,000 were later imprisoned. Of those, 2000 were sent to Nazi concentration camps, where they were identified by purple triangles; as many as 1200 died, including 250 who were executed. In Canada, Jehovah's Witnesses were interned in camps along with political dissidents and people of Chinese and Japanese descent. In the former Soviet Union, about 9,300 Jehovah's Witnesses were deported to Siberia as part of Operation North in April 1951. Their religious activities are currently banned or restricted in some countries, including China, Vietnam and some Islamic states.

qas: question: Who were Jehovah's Witnesses accused of intentionally provoking in the 1930s and 1940s?
answers: text: authorities and other religions

question: What authors have suggested Rutherford invited and cultivated opposition for the purpose of publicity?
answers: text: Whalen, Harrison and Schnell

question: What did Rutherford hope to convince members about the persecution from the outside world?
answers: text: evidence of the truth of their struggle

question: What did Watch Tower Society literature tell Jehovah's Witnesses they should never seek?
answers: text: controversy

question: What should a Jehovah's Witnesses prefer to paying fines?
answers: text: jail

question: In what decade did author William Whalen die?

question: In what decade did author Shawn Francis Peters die?

question: What religious leader of the 1930s and 1940s would never have been suspected of using his members arrests to garner more disaffected members?

question: In what decade did Barbara Grizzuti Harrison escape the Jehovah's Witnesses?

question: In what decade  did Alan Rogerson get out of the Jehovah's Witnesses?
context: Authors including William Whalen, Shawn Francis Peters and former Witnesses Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Alan Rogerson and William Schnell have claimed the arrests and mob violence in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s were the consequence of what appeared to be a deliberate course of provocation of authorities and other religions by Jehovah’s Witnesses. Whalen, Harrison and Schnell have suggested Rutherford invited and cultivated opposition for publicity purposes in a bid to attract dispossessed members of society, and to convince members that persecution from the outside world was evidence of the truth of their struggle to serve God. Watch Tower Society literature of the period directed that Witnesses should "never seek a controversy" nor resist arrest, but also advised members not to co-operate with police officers or courts that ordered them to stop preaching, and to prefer jail rather than pay fines.

qas: question: What did Jehovah's Witnesses persistent legal challenges result in, in the United States?
answers: text: reinforced judicial protections for civil liberties

question: What is religious conduct protected from the interference of?
answers: text: federal and state

question: What right to abstain from do Jehovah's Witnesses exercise?
answers: text: patriotic rituals and military service

question: What do patients have the right to refuse?
answers: text: medical treatment

question: Where have cases in the Jehovah's Witnesses favor been heard outside of the U.S.?
answers: text: Canada

question: What was one of the countries that the Jehovah's Witnesses lost a bunch of civil liberties lawsuits?

question: Besides the US what other country has the Jehovah's Witnesses lost lawsuits about such things as the right to refuse medical treatment?

question: Has the Witnesses won more federal or state lawsuits?

question: Was it in the US or Canada that Witnesses first gained the right to abstain from patriotic rituals?

question: Was it in the US or Canada that Witnesses first gained the right to abstain from military service?
context: In the United States, their persistent legal challenges prompted a series of state and federal court rulings that reinforced judicial protections for civil liberties. Among the rights strengthened by Witness court victories in the United States are the protection of religious conduct from federal and state interference, the right to abstain from patriotic rituals and military service, the right of patients to refuse medical treatment, and the right to engage in public discourse. Similar cases in their favor have been heard in Canada.

qas: question: Who establishes the doctrines of the Jehovah's Witnesses?
answers: text: the Governing Body

question: What do the Jehovah's Witnesses religion not tolerate any of?
answers: text: dissent

question: What happens to members who disagree with the religion's teachings?
answers: text: expelled and shunned

question: Why should the counsel received from the Governing Body be trusted?
answers: text: part of "God's organization"

question: Who do Jehovah's Witnesses believe introduced independent thinking?
answers: text: Satan the Devil

question: What religion accommodates members who question its teachings?

question: What religion encourages its adherents to think critically?

question: What religion treats those who want to engage in independent thinking in a loving way?

question: What religion wouldn't think of expelling someone merely because they have questions about what the church teaches?
context: Doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses are established by the Governing Body. The religion does not tolerate dissent over doctrines and practices; members who openly disagree with the religion's teachings are expelled and shunned. Witness publications strongly discourage followers from questioning doctrine and counsel received from the Governing Body, reasoning that it is to be trusted as part of "God's organization". It also warns members to "avoid independent thinking", claiming such thinking "was introduced by Satan the Devil" and would "cause division". Those who openly disagree with official teachings are condemned as "apostates" who are "mentally diseased".

qas: question: What do former Jehovah's Witnesses members Heath and Gary Botting compare the culture of the religion to?
answers: text: Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four

question: Who describes the Jehovah's Witnesses' leadership as being totalitarian? 
answers: text: Alan Rogerson

question: How do the leaders of the Jehovah's Witnesses cultivate a system of unquestioning obedience?
answers: text: disparaging individual decision-making

question: What do critics of the Jehovah's Witnesses accuse the religion's leaders of exercising over members?
answers: text: "intellectual dominance"

question: What did former Governing Body member Raymond Franz argue the methods employed by the religion were all elements of?
answers: text: mind control

question: Who was the first totalitarian in charge of a nation?

question: Who was the first leader of the Witnesses?

question: Who was one of the people that argued the Witnesses make people abrogate all responsibilities and rights over their personal lives?

question: Who got out of the Witnesses first, Alan Rogerson or Raymond Franz?

question: Who between Heather and Gary Botting first wanted out of the Witnesses?
context: Former members Heather and Gary Botting compare the cultural paradigms of the religion to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, and Alan Rogerson describes the religion's leadership as totalitarian. Other critics charge that by disparaging individual decision-making, the religion's leaders cultivate a system of unquestioning obedience in which Witnesses abrogate all responsibility and rights over their personal lives. Critics also accuse the religion's leaders of exercising "intellectual dominance" over Witnesses, controlling information and creating "mental isolation", which former Governing Body member Raymond Franz argued were all elements of mind control.

qas: question: What profession did Rodney Stark grow up to become?
answers: text: Sociologist

question: What statement does Stark make about the leaders of the Jehovah's Witnesses?
answers: text: "not always very democratic"

question: How do Jehovah's Witnesses see themselves in regards to the power structure of the church?
answers: text: "part of the power structure rather than subject to it."

question: Another Sociologist, Andrew Holden, feels anyone who joins a movement such as the Jehovah's Witnesses has made a what?
answers: text: informed choice

question: Holden acknowledges that defectors are seldom allowed a what from the church?
answers: text: dignified exit

question: Who described the Jehovah's Witnesses as a relatively democratic organization?

question: Who said that it was formal rules that kept people in line in the Jehovah's Witnesses?

question: Who wrote that the majority of people joining the Witnesses are making a pretty uninformed choice?

question: Who wrote that people leaving religious groups like the Witnesses are allowed a dignified exit?

question: Which sociologist said that the Witnesses are on the whole a democratic organization?
context: Sociologist Rodney Stark states that Jehovah's Witness leaders are "not always very democratic" and that members "are expected to conform to rather strict standards," but adds that "enforcement tends to be very informal, sustained by the close bonds of friendship within the group", and that Jehovah's Witnesses see themselves as "part of the power structure rather than subject to it." Sociologist Andrew Holden states that most members who join millenarian movements such as Jehovah's Witnesses have made an informed choice. However, he also states that defectors "are seldom allowed a dignified exit", and describes the administration as autocratic.

qas: question: What is the New World Translation the most accurate translation of?
answers: text: the Bibles most widely in use in the English-speaking world

question: What do many Bible scholars assume the differences in the New World Translation are the result of?
answers: text: religious bias

question: BeDuhn clarifies that the differences are actually due to what?
answers: text: greater accuracy

question: The NW often errs on the side of what type of translation?
answers: text: literal, conservative

question: What insertion into the New Testament violates accuracy in favor of denominationally preferred expressions?
answers: text: Jehovah

question: Which Bible doesn't insert Jehovah too often as the word for God?

question: What is regarded as the least accurate translation of the Bible in the world among the nine main ones?

question: What university did Bible scholar Jason BeDuhn get his degree from?

question: Who was one of the New Testament Writers?
context: On the other hand, in his study on nine of "the Bibles most widely in use in the English-speaking world", Bible scholar Jason BeDuhn, Professor of Religious Studies at the Northern Arizona University, wrote: “The NW [New World Translation] emerges as the most accurate of the translations compared.” Although the general public and many Bible scholars assume that the differences in the New World Translation are the result of religious bias on the part of its translators, BeDuhn stated: “Most of the differences are due to the greater accuracy of the NW as a literal, conservative translation of the original expressions of the New Testament writers.” He added however that the insertion of the name Jehovah in the New Testament "violate[s] accuracy in favor of denominationally preferred expressions for God".

qas: question: Who do Watch Tower Society publications claim God has used?
answers: text: Jehovah's Witnesses

question: What does God use Jehovah's Witnesses for?
answers: text: to declare his will

question: What has God provided to Jehovah's Witnesses?
answers: text: advance knowledge about Armageddon

question: What have various Jehovah's Witnesses' publications made predictions about?
answers: text: world events

question: What had some of the failed predictions of Jehovah's Witnesses been presented as?
answers: text: "beyond doubt"

question: What Protestant religion has allowed that some of their predictions may not come to pass?

question: What is one of Watch Tower Society's publications?

question: What is one of of the Protestant religions doesn't claim to know what is coming next?

question: What is one of the religions that doesn't believe in an upcoming Armageddon?
context: Watch Tower Society publications have claimed that God has used Jehovah's Witnesses (and formerly, the International Bible Students) to declare his will and has provided advance knowledge about Armageddon and the establishment of God's kingdom. Some publications also claimed that God has used Jehovah's Witnesses and the International Bible Students as a modern-day prophet.[note 5] Jehovah's Witnesses' publications have made various predictions about world events they believe were prophesied in the Bible. Failed predictions have led to the alteration or abandonment of some doctrines. Some failed predictions had been presented as "beyond doubt" or "approved by God".

qas: question: What accusations does the Watch Tower Society reject?
answers: text: that it is a false prophet

question: What does George D. Chryssides suggest the changing views and dates of the Jehovah's Witnesses can be attributed to changed understandings of?
answers: text: biblical chronology

question: What profession does Andrew Holden smugly self-identify as?
answers: text: sociologist

question: How long ago was the foundation of the Jehovah's Witnesses movement?
answers: text: around 140 years ago

question: What have Jehovah's Witnesses maintained we are living on the precipice of since their formation?
answers: text: the end of time

question: What religion is George D. Chryssides?

question: What is George D. Chryssides occupation?

question: Since what year has Andrew Holden been a sociologist?

question: In what year was the Watch Tower Society founded?

question: Who argues it is foolish to not believe that the Witnesses set end dates of civilization just to get additional members?
context: The Watch Tower Society rejects accusations that it is a false prophet, stating that its teachings are not inspired or infallible, and that it has not claimed its predictions were "the words of Jehovah." George D. Chryssides has suggested that with the exception of statements about 1914, 1925 and 1975, the changing views and dates of the Jehovah's Witnesses are largely attributable to changed understandings of biblical chronology than to failed predictions. Chryssides further states, "it is therefore simplistic and naïve to view the Witnesses as a group that continues to set a single end-date that fails and then devise a new one, as many counter-cultists do." However, sociologist Andrew Holden states that since the foundation of the movement around 140 years ago, "Witnesses have maintained that we are living on the precipice of the end of time."

qas: question: What are Jehovah's Witnesses accused of concealing within their organization?
answers: text: sexual abuse

question: Whose hands should elders leave allegations of sexual abuse in when the accused person denies wrongdoing?
answers: text: Jehovah's

question: Who does Barbara Anderson feel the church's policy regarding sexual abuse protects?
answers: text: pedophiles

question: What do Jehovah's Witnesses maintain they want to protect?
answers: text: children

question: Jehovah's Witnesses do not sponsor activities when the result is the separation of whom?
answers: text: children from parents

question: What religion is one of the best at protecting children from molestation?

question: Who came up with the "two witness rule" within the Jehovah's Witnesses organization?

question: What Bible scriptures contradict the Jehovah's Witnesses views on sexual abuse?

question: How does Deuteronomy 19:15 describe the best way to prevent pedophilia?

question: What does Matthew 18:15-17 have to say about sexual abuse?
context: Jehovah's Witnesses have been accused of having policies and culture that help to conceal cases of sexual abuse within the organization. The religion has been criticized for its "two witness rule" for church discipline, based on its application of scriptures at Deuteronomy 19:15 and Matthew 18:15-17, which requires sexual abuse to be substantiated by secondary evidence if the accused person denies any wrongdoing. In cases where corroboration is lacking, the Watch Tower Society's instruction is that "the elders will leave the matter in Jehovah's hands". A former member of the church’s headquarters staff, Barbara Anderson, says the policy effectively requires that there be another witness to an act of molestation, "which is an impossibility". Anderson says the policies "protect pedophiles rather than protect the children." Jehovah's Witnesses maintain that they have a strong policy to protect children, adding that the best way to protect children is by educating parents; they also state that they do not sponsor activities that separate children from parents.

qas: question: What has the Jehovah's Witnesses failure to report to authorities been criticized? 
answers: text: abuse allegations

question: Of the 1006 alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse identified by Jehovah's Witnesses within their organization since 1950, how many were reported to secular authorities?
answers: text: not one

question: Why are the Jehovah's Witnesses reluctant to alert authorities to abuse?
answers: text: to protect its "crime-free" reputation

question: What have courts in both the UK and the US found the Watch Tower Society to have been for failing to protect children from sexual predators within the congregation?
answers: text: negligent

question: How much has the Society reportedly paid to settle lawsuits without admitting any wrongdoing?
answers: text: as much as $780,000 to one plaintiff

question: How many child sexual abuse cases have been reported to authorities in the US by The Watch Tower Society since 1950?

question: How much has The Watch Tower Society paid to victims of child sexual abuse in Australia since 1950?

question: In what year did William Bowen leave the Jehovah's Witnesses?

question: How many alleged sexual abuse cases have there been in the United States since 1950 involving members of the Jehovah's Witnesses?

question: How much does the Watch Tower Society pay to lawyers each year to represent them against child sexual abuse cases?
context: The religion's failure to report abuse allegations to authorities has also been criticized. The Watch Tower Society's policy is that elders inform authorities when required by law to do so, but otherwise leave that action up to the victim and his or her family. The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found that of 1006 alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse identified by the Jehovah's Witnesses within their organization since 1950, "not one was reported by the church to secular authorities." William Bowen, a former Jehovah's Witness elder who established the Silentlambs organization to assist sex abuse victims within the religion, has claimed Witness leaders discourage followers from reporting incidents of sexual misconduct to authorities, and other critics claim the organization is reluctant to alert authorities in order to protect its "crime-free" reputation. In court cases in the United Kingdom and the United States the Watch Tower Society has been found to have been negligent in its failure to protect children from known sex offenders within the congregation and the Society has settled other child abuse lawsuits out of court, reportedly paying as much as $780,000 to one plaintiff without admitting wrongdoing.