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Jehovah's and Witnesses
His answers to the classification questionnaire reflected that he was a minister of Jehovah's Witnesses, employed at night by a sugar producer.
Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.
In 2006, one out of 221 people were Jehovah's Witnesses.
Nontraditional churches, especially the Jehovah's Witnesses, have been subjected to harassment, sometimes violently.
Like Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventists use key phrases from the Bible, such as " For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten " ( Eccl.
Jehovah's Witnesses occasionally use the terms " afterlife " and " hereafter " to refer to any hope for the dead, but they understand Ecclesiastes 9: 5 to preclude common views of afterlife:
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that death is the price for sinning.
However, many people, notably Jehovah's Witnesses, believe that the wisdom in this proverb symbolizes Jesus Christ because he is later described in a similar way.
The Christology of Jehovah's Witnesses is also generally regarded as Arian, given their views on development of the Trinity.
In connection with this Jehovah's Witnesses also believe the Holy Spirit is not an actual person but rather is God ’ s divine breath, God's power in action.
Most of the ACLU's cases came from the Communist party and Jehovah's Witnesses.
Others deported to Auschwitz included 150, 000 Poles, 23, 000 Roma and Sinti, 15, 000 Soviet prisoners of war, some 400 Jehovah's Witnesses and tens of thousands of people of diverse nationalities.
The International Bible Students Association ( precursor to Jehovah's Witnesses ) identified Abaddon as Satan in the 1917 seventh and final volume of Millennial Dawn, to which Charles Taze Russell's name was attached ( although his authorship of the work is doubted ).
Jehovah's Witnesses now take the contrasting view, believing that Abaddon is another name of the resurrected and enthroned Jesus Christ.
* 1933 – Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
The Bible-based name Jehovah's Witnesses identifies these Christians as a ' people for God's name.
For further evidence, Jehovah's Witnesses note that in Mark 1: 9-10, after Jesus was baptised in water by John the Baptist, he was baptised by the spirit symbolised by a dove.
American Millennialism and Adventism, which arose from Evangelical Protestantism, influenced the Jehovah's Witnesses movement ( with 7 million members ), and, as a reaction specifically to William Miller, the Seventh-day Adventists.
There are also places of worship in George Town for Jehovah's Witnesses, and followers of Bahá ' í Faith.
: Roman Catholic 76. 3 %, Evangelical 13. 7 %, Jehovah's Witnesses 1. 3 %, other Protestant 0. 7 %, other 4. 8 %, none 3. 2 %
Several churches, such as the Anabaptists and Socinians of the Reformation, then Seventh-day Adventist Church, Christadelphians, Jehovah's Witnesses, and theologians of different traditions reject the idea of the immortality of a non-physical soul as a vestige of Neoplatonism, and other pagan traditions.
" Jehovah's Witnesses contrast " memorizing or repeating creeds " with acting to " do what Jesus said ".
Many Pentecostal churches such as the Assemblies of God, as well as Restorationist churches, like Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons, also take the position that homosexual sexual activity is immoral.
The Jehovah's Witnesses view marriage to be a permanent arrangement with the only possible exception being adultery.

Jehovah's and Seventh-day
Other Christian denominations include Roman Catholicism, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Latter-day Saints ( Mormonism ), Salvation Army, and Jehovah's Witness.
Religions: Roman Catholic 72 %, Pentecostal 4, 9 %, Protestant 3. 5 %, Seventh-day Adventist 3, 1 %, Methodist 2, 9 %, other Christian 4, 2 %, Jehovah's Witnesses 1, 7 %, Jewish 1, 3 %
Severe measures are directed toward religious sects that have not been able to establish official ties of state recognition, especially Baptists, Pentecostals, Seventh-day Adventists, Hare Krishna, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Bahá ' ís.
Others are mostly Pentecostals, Evangelicals, Seventh-day Adventists, Lutherans and Jehovah's Witnesses.
Among them are two Churches of Christ ( non-instrumental ), three Roman Catholic churches, four Lutheran churches, three Methodist churches, over a dozen Baptist churches, two LDS Churches, the Bullhead Islamic Center, two Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Halls, two Episcopal churches, two Seventh-day Adventist churches, Unity Church of the Mohave Valley, two Assemblies of God, Foursquare ( Spirit Life Church ), Calvary Chapel, Temple Israel Ba Midbor ( Jewish services in Laughlin ), and active Neo-Pagan ( Coven of the Canyon and River ) and Buddhist communities ( Soka Gakkai Colorado River District ).
In addition to a large Roman Catholic parish, the city contains one of each of the following denominational churches: Episcopal Church, United Methodist, Assemblies of God, United Church of Christ, Mennonite, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Community Alliance Church Christian & Missionary Alliance, eXperience Church, Vineyard Church.
The late Walter Martin, in his classic The Kingdom of the Cults, devoted 34 pages to the group, claiming that Armstrong borrowed freely from Seventh-day Adventist, Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormon doctrines.
Other religious groups for which the 2000 census provided estimates included evangelicals, with 1. 71 percent of the population ; other Protestant evangelical groups, 2. 79 percent ; members of Jehovah's Witnesses, 1. 25 percent ; " historical " Protestants, 0. 71 percent ; Seventh-day Adventists, 0. 58 percent ; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 0. 25 percent ; Jews, 0. 05 percent ; and other religions, 0. 31 percent.
Other denominations are also represented, the Baptists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventist Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the United Reformed Church all have places of worship within the city.
The Seventh-day Adventists would be the first in line to oppose the right-wing incorporation of religious agenda into politics, not only because Seventh-day Adventists and other Christians ( such as Jehovah's Witnesses ) have been arrested and tried for offenses such as draft evasion, but because the politicization of any religious agenda may lead to an official religion and not only first criminalize the losers, but if there is a power shift, also come to criminalize the ex-winners, too.
Anglican, Jehovah's Witness, Methodist, Moravian, Presbyterian, Pentecostal and Seventh-day Adventists are among the Protestant denominations prevalent on the island.
Other denominations include mainline and evangelical Protestant groups, the Iglesia Ni Cristo, the Seventh-day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses and the Aglipayan Church, also known as the Philippine Independent Church.
Other Christian groups with smaller followings include the Africa Inland Church, Armenian ( Apostolic ) Church, Sudan Church of Christ, Sudan Interior Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, Sudan Pentecostal Church, Sudan Evangelical Presbyterian Church ( in the north ), Presbyterian Church of the Sudan ( in the south ), and the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Sudan.
Annihilationist proponents include the Seventh-day Adventists, Bible Students, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians, and some other Protestant Christians.
* Restorationism ( Christian primitivism ) – The doctrine that most of the modern Church is apostate ; includes the Millerites, Seventh-day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Latter Day Saints.
The city has a very diverse presence of Protestant or Reformed faiths, such as the Presbyterian Church, Calvary Chapel, For Christ International Church of Grace of God, Pentecostal Church of God in Brazil, Methodist Church, the Episcopal Anglican Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Baptist Church, an Assembly of God Church, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, the Jehovah's Witnesses among others.
This hypothesis gained a following among Jehovah's Witnesses and from Seventh-day Adventist physicist Robert W. Woods, before being given prominent and repeated mention in The Genesis Flood in 1961.
Also in the area are Baptist, Roman Catholic, a Seventh-day Adventist Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Salvation Army and Jehovah's Witnesses.
The program frequently criticizes various denominations for their doctrines, practices and what it says are false teachings, including the Catholic Church, some Christian Denominations, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventist Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and especially the Iglesia ni Cristo, ( Church of Christ founded by Felix Manalo ), a Philippine-based religion.
There are also small groups of Seventh-day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Bahá ' ís in the country.
Other Christian communities are Baptists, Seventh-day Adventists, the ICF Movement, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Old Catholics and the New Apostolic Church, as well as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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