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HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN Jehovah Witness Willian Miller(1782 - 1849) Miller was a farmer, justice of the peace, sheriff, and Baptist preacher, who, from 1831 to 1844, preached the immanent return of Christ. Miller predicted that Christ would return in 1844. When that second coming failed to materialize, many believers drifted away in the "Great Disappointment." The alternative was to keep the faith through new interpretations of doctrine. Thus rose the Jehovah witness tradition. Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916) established the Witnesses around 1870 in Pennsylvania, and the second president, Joseph F. Rutherford (1869-1942), gave the group much of its present administrative structure. Jehovah's Witnesses doctrine is grounded in Russell's teaching that • the Second Coming of Christ has already occurred (in a spiritual, invisible form) and • the visible form that will follow will include the establishment of Christ's millennial kingdom here on earth. Jehovah's Witnesses adhere to the Bible as their sacred text, though only the New World Translation is approved for use. The movement departs from traditional Christian teaching in several key points, including • a rejection of the Trinity only the Father, Jehovah, is God • a belief that Jesus is a created being and identifies Jesus with Michael the Archangel • the non-existence of hell • the annihilation of unsaved , • the reduction of the Holy Spirit from a person to a force, • the mortality (not immortality) of the soul, The group took on the name "Jehovah's Witnesses" in 1931 under the leadership of Joseph Franklin Rutherford. Besides changing the name, Rutherford also created internal structure for the followers and it became a highly functioning organization. The movement departs from traditional Christian teaching in several key points, including a rejection of the Trinity and a belief that Jesus is a created being. Jehovah's Witnesses have continued to engage in strong evangelistic and missions programs as well as lifestyles based on a strict moral code of conduct. Members of local Jehovah's Witnesses congregations are expected to participate in door-to-door evangelism (including distributing books and the Watch Tower magazine) and attending meetings at the Kingdom Hall (church building). (http://www.patheos.com/Library/Jehovahs-Witnesses.html) 204
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN Charles Taze Russell (1852 – 1916) and Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1869 – 1942), Jehovah's Witnesses began their activity in India in the year 1903, following the visit of their founder Charles Taze Russel to India. There are around 18,500 jehovah's witnesses in India as reported in 2010. 3250 of them are pioneers. Most of them are in the southern states of Kerala,Tamilnadu and Karnataka. The state of Kerala accounts for the largest number of JW in India. 205
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