Trinity

TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD:
PROF. M. M. NINAN
This belief is based on the Greek words used in the Bible for the cross, which literally
translate as 'stake' and 'tree'.
Modern Witnesses regard the Cross as a pagan symbol and do not use it, although it was
accepted by the movement until 1931.
Death, Heaven and Hell
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that when a person dies, their existence completely stops.
This is because the Bible makes it clear that human beings do not have an immortal soul
that survives when the body dies.
The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are
conscious of nothing at all ... for there is no work nor devising nor
knowledge nor wisdom in (the grave), the place to which you are going.
Ecclesiastes 9: 5, 10
Witnesses believe that Hell (as traditionally portrayed) does not exist. There is no place
where sinners are tormented after death - since their existence is over, nothing can be
done to them or for them. Witnesses also argue that it would be completely against
God's nature to torture humans for eternity.
However, death is not the end of everything: each person can be remembered by God
and eventually be resurrected.
Witnesses say that this is clearly stated by Jesus:
The hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear [Jesus']
voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life,
those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.
John 5:28-29
End times
Much of Witness belief concentrates on the 'End Times', and Witnesses have pointed to
a number of past dates as Biblically significant, though they have not stated in terms
when the end of the world, or 'conclusion of the system of things,' is expected.
Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the
heavens nor the Son, but only the Father.
Matthew 24:36
Witnesses believe that the end times started in 1914, but they realise that most human
beings were unaware of this.
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