The teachings of Jehovah's witnesses: A bibliographical and narrative documentary review

As another neo-Christian religious movement, the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses has exclusivist, proselytizing, millenarian, non-creationist, non-trinitarian, politically neutral teachings and practices and claims to accept scientific discoveries based on evidence, although in practice they do not. This work aims to present and discuss the main teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses, as a member of this religious organization, baptized more than 15 years ago. To this end, it carries out a bibliographical and narrative documentary review, under the Giftedean neoperspectivist paradigm. It fills the gap in the literature on Theology and Science of Religion that there was not yet any scientific work on Jehovah's Witnesses produced and published by someone who belongs or has belonged to this religious entity for a long time. It concludes that: its teachings are based on a mainly literal interpretation of the Hebrew-Aramaic and Christian Greek Scriptures (the Bible), with the exception of prophetic symbolism; its concepts such as apostasy, porneía , dating, friendship, spirituality, maturity, sexting , sexual abuse need to be refined in the light of scientific research, since the Bible does not make them explicit in numerous cases; this religious community needs to learn to respect Science and the scientific community as a whole, since they do not currently do so, believing they understand human life, the world and truth more than scientists; it needs to implement theocratic meritocracy for the appointment, designation or removal of its leaders, with only the requirement of some spiritual qualifications prevailing today, insufficient for the fulfillment of the Christian ministry in strategic functions.