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Origination of Jehovah's Witnesses

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Need a little background information on the Jehovah's Witnesses about where they originated from? What are there beliefs? What is their stand on God? Why do the minister from door to door? and How did the Watchtower come about?

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They originated from from a religious movement called the Bible Students, founded in late 1870s by Charles Taze Russell. After his death, the group split up into sections, the one supportive of the "Watchtower Society" became the Jehovah's Witnesses under the new President's leadership, Joseph Franklin Rutherford. The whole religion came about because these were Christians who thought they saw a corruption and compromise in mainstream ...

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