Talk:Jehovah's Witnesses

message: I have updated the categories to properly reflect the fact that the Bible Student movement is related to the background of Jehovah's Witnesses, and that the JW denomination itself was formalised in 1931.
Jehovah's Witnesses is not synonymous with either Bible Students (of which there are also other denominations apart from JWs), nor Watch Tower Society (which is a corporation that began after the Bible Student movement began and before the existence of the Jehovah's Witnesses denomination).--Jeffro77 Talk 01:47, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories 

message: I think the reader needs to be told who Jehovah is, and what it means to witness, or to be a Witness, in this context. This would be familiar to Christians, but I don't think non-Christians will even know that Jehovah is God or that bearing witness to God is something different from witnessing a crime (and they wouldn't learn that from reading the Wikipedia article on witness, which doesn't cover the religious usage of the term). I think this is worth explaining in the lead, maybe in the first paragraph. Levivich (talk) 16:27, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jehovah and Witnesses 

message: What distinguishes JW from other Christian denominations? For example, Mormons have the Book of Mormon, Pentacostals speak in tongues, Baptists practice believer's baptism... off the top of my head, these are examples of distinguishing characteristics of denominations. What about JW? Is nontrinitarianism unique or unusual among Christian denominations? It seems to me that millenarianism is common to all/most Christian denominations? And there are certainly many restorationist denominations. So these are characteristics, and used in the categorization of denominations (right?), but are they unique characteristics? Same for the line, "the destruction of the present world system at Armageddon is imminent, and the establishment of God's kingdom over earth is the only solution to all of humanity's problems" -- is that unique to JW or is that something that more or less all Christians believe? So I wonder if the unique characteristics should be mentioned early (first paragraph?), and the other categorizations mentioned later? Levivich (talk) 16:27, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, nontrinitarianism is unusual among Christian denominations to the extent that most established denominations consider nontrinitarianism deeply heretical. 2A0A:EF40:E05:C701:388F:B266:9B6D:13B7 (talk) 10:58, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distinguishing features 

message: I'm wary that so much of this section is based on 20th-century sources. Are there two or three books about the history of Jehovah's Witnesses that were written in this century? Levivich (talk) 05:37, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background (1870–1916) 

message: The article doesn't actually say that Russell was president from 1884 until (I presume) his death in 1916. Levivich (talk) 20:56, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reorganization (1917–1942) 

message: Jehovah's Witnesses claim that Jesus Christ Preexisting Carnation was as the Archangel Michael. Prophet Michael, God's Disciple (talk) 01:28, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup. And? What suggested change are you making? Vyselink (talk) 03:03, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jesus-Archangel Michael Parallel 

message: I didn't found in the article, are they belive jesus born from a virgin or not? Wikipme31 (talk) 04:43, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Mary conceived Jesus as a virgin. Where they vary from some other denominations is that they believe Mary and Joseph had biological children after Jesus' birth. I'll double check if any of this is in the article but if it's not, it might be an ommission that's worth remedying. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 04:53, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Updated with content adapted from Jehovah's Witnesses beliefs. I'm not sure it's necessary to elaborate at this main article about Jesus purportedly having 'half-siblings'. Possibly something that could be mentioned at the other article, though I'm in two minds about whether it is getting into unnecessary minutia there.--Jeffro77 Talk 05:34, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, it looks like I edit conflicted with you just now . I think I have the stronger sourcing here but I'm willing to listen if you think your version of the text is better. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 05:42, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: What you have added is better.-Jeffro77 Talk 05:58, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

text: The citation error is related to the  template rather than the other citation to which you added the edition. When there is more than one source with the same author name, you need to include the year in the sfn citation. It is not clear which of Chryssides' works is being cited, so I'm not sure which year to add to the citation to fix.--Jeffro77 Talk 06:22, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, that makes sense. I think I've fixed it now . I was citing the New Introduction book there. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 06:28, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jesus born