Can Jehovah Witnesses drink wine?

Jehovah's Witnesses reject foods containing blood but have no other special dietary requirements. Some Jehovah's Witnesses may be vegetarian and others may abstain from alcohol, but this is a personal choice. Jehovah's Witnesses do not smoke or use other tobacco products.
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Are Jehovah's Witnesses allowed to drink alcohol?

Smoking, including electronic cigarettes, abuse of drugs, and drunkenness are prohibited. Alcohol is permitted in moderation.
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Can Jehovah Witnesses drink coffee?

Yes we do as well as tea and most other non-alcoholic beverages.
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What is a sin to Jehovah Witness?

Jehovah's Witnesses avoid violent sports that deliberately hurt people. Abortion is wrong. Killing animals for sport is wrong. Jehovah's Witnesses avoid surrogate motherhood as well as any procedures that involve the use of donated sperm, eggs, or embryos Witnessing to a worker ©
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Do Jehovah Witnesses wear wedding rings?

The Watchtower has stated that the use of wedding rings by Witnesses is acceptable, even though wedding rings may have first been used by pagans, based on its conclusion that there is no definite evidence wedding rings were used "as part of false religious practices" (emphasis from original).
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Can Jehovah Witness cuss?

How do the Jehovah's Witnesses feel about cussing? It's frowned upon. The Jehovah's Witnesses, a Christian group that believes Armageddon is imminent, discourage members from any sort of foul language on the grounds that it's expressly forbidden in the Bible.
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How does JW make money?

Funding. Jehovah's Witnesses fund their activities, such as publishing, constructing and operating facilities, evangelism, and disaster relief via donations.
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Are Jehovah Witnesses allowed to celebrate anything?

Jehovah's witnesses do not celebrate national or religious holidays or birthdays. The only day they do memorialize is Jesus Christ's death around the time of Easter and Passover.
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What is a Jehovah Witness diet?

Diet. Jehovah's Witnesses reject foods containing blood but have no other special dietary requirements. Some Jehovah's Witnesses may be vegetarian and others may abstain from alcohol, but this is a personal choice. Jehovah's Witnesses do not smoke or use other tobacco products.
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Can Jehovah Witnesses be friends with non?

They limit contact with non-Jehovah's Witnesses

Followers are discouraged from having close relationships with those who are not part of the faith. People who are “worldly” are seen as bad influences or “bad associations.”
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Do Jehovah Witnesses celebrate weddings?

Celebrations. Weddings, anniversaries, and funerals are observed, though they avoid incorporating certain traditions they see to have pagan origins.
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Can Jehovah Witness divorce?

Jehovah's Witnesses adhere to the Bible's view of marriage and divorce. Monogamy between one man and one woman and sex only within marriage are requirements in the Witness religion. But Witnesses do permit divorce in certain cases, believing that the only valid ground for divorce and remarriage is adultery.
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Can Jehovah Witness eat chicken?

DIET - Jehovah Witnesses believe it is forbidden to eat blood or blood products. Although meat is usually acceptable, because animals are bled after slaughter, some Jehovah Witnesses may be vegetarian. Patients may wish to pray silently before eating and at other times.
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Can JW be cremated?

According to Jehovah's Witnesses, cremation is permissible. Whether a dead person is cremated or not, Jehovah is not limited in his ability to restore the person to life with a new body.
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What foods do Jehovah Witness avoid?

Jehovah's Witnesses abstain from eating the meat of animals from which blood has not been properly drained. They also refrain from eating such things as blood sausage and blood soup. No special preparation is required. The patient can manage his or her own diet within the hospital dietary parameters.
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How often do Jehovah's Witnesses go to church?

Compared with U.S. Christians overall, Jehovah's Witnesses are especially likely to say they attend religious services at least once a week (85%, compared with 47% of all U.S. Christians), pray daily (90% of Jehovah's Witnesses vs.
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Do Jehovah Witness elders get paid?

The majority of elders are family men and maintain secular employment to support their families. Jehovah's Witnesses do not have a salaried clergy nor any employees.
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What NFL player is now Jehovah Witness?

Personal life. After retiring from the NFL, Worilds announced he left football and became a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Do Jehovah Witnesses pay taxes?

As a religious organization, the group is exempt from paying taxes.
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What do you call a Jehovah Witness pastor?

Jehovah's Witnesses have no professional clergy, so there is no distinction between clergy and lay people. All baptised members are considered ordained ministers. All members take on the missionary work of telling outsiders about Witness beliefs.
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Can Jehovah Witness do jury duty?

Occasionally, an individual is permanently excused for religious reasons, such as a Jehovah's Witness who believes he or she cannot sit in judgment of others. Even if you are called to jury duty, it does not necessarily mean you will serve.
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What do Jehovah Witnesses do for Christmas?

They don't celebrate holidays

The organization says “Christmas is not approved by God” because there is no proof that Jesus was born on December 25th and that the symbols of Christmas, including the lights and the tree, have pagan roots.”
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What happens if a Jehovah Witness Gets blood?

A baptized Witness who unrepentantly accepts a blood transfusion is deemed to have disassociated himself from the group by abandoning its doctrines and is subsequently subject to organized shunning by other members.
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Do Jehovah Witnesses believe in speaking in tongue?

According to Jehovah's Witnesses

For the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Gift of tongues was provisionally a reality in the 1st century in the apostles to promote Christianity after the ascension of Jesus Christ to heaven, after which such ability ceased.
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Can Jehovah Witnesses receive organs?

Jehovah's Witnesses – According to the Watch Tower Society, the legal corporation for the religion, Jehovah's Witnesses do not encourage organ donation but believe it is a matter best left to an individual's conscience. All organs and tissues, however, must be completely drained of blood before transplantation.
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