2006-07-02 08:16:04 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, witnesses also believe that Jesus is a god - Not God. God said to have no other god before him so is Jesus then a false god or a true god in the eyes of a JW? If Jesus is a true God then he is God as written by Isaiah and is part of the trinity as described throughout the Bible.
Isaiah (44:6) said that "besides me there is no God".
If this is true then is Jesus was a god, then he is in big trouble and we are wasting our time because he would be false. But he isn't false because God is with him and he is God - one with the Father.
The trinity can be concluded by the natural reading of the Bible throughout its pages and the Watchtower recognises this, and it is only through the writings of the Watchtower that they can despute the Trinity. It is therefore the Watchtower that is changing the version of the Bible. With this in mind, they are not following the Bible as wholely as they would like to be seen to, and by not acknowledging the trinity and the deity of Christ, they cannot be Christians.
You cannot pick individual pieces of the Bible to support an argument. You need the whole of the Bible and the whole of the Bible supports the existence of the trinity. If not, then you are saying Isaiah was wrong, yet he was considered one of the greatest prophets. And if Isaiah is wrong, then most of the Bible would follow suit and it would be a fable instead of the Great Book it is.
Peace be with you.
2006-07-03 10:16:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not quite right. They are Witnesses of Jehovah God. If you would like to understand what Jehovah's Witnesses believe go to the link below.
2006-07-02 08:26:26 · answer #2 · answered by .*. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trinitarians repeatedly pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian. Trinitarians use an artificial, trinity-specific definition of the term "Christian" which excludes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century pretended that Christ's followers were Atheists(!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.
Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Both secular dictionaries and disinterested theologians acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion.
The Trinitarian arguments are intended to insult and demean Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than to give a Scripturally accurate understanding of the term "Christian".
In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all the times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"
(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.
(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: "I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe." But Agrippa said to Paul: "In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian."
(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name
So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:
(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded
Learn more!
http://watchtower.org
2006-07-02 15:49:12 · answer #3 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Be careful. The JW cult was made up only a short 120 years ago. So go read the Bible (NIV, KJV, etc..) before reading anything printed by the Watchtower Society.
That warning out of the way.... A Christian is someone who... "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Rom 10:9
From this and other scripture you can see that we have to be willing to accept that we are sinners and in need of a saviour. Then we acknowledge that Jesus Christ is that saviour and that he is part of the one true God. The Holy Spirit, also part of the one true God, gives us the ability to do all this by God's grace.
I hope God gives you the right answer ... !
2006-07-07 09:42:34 · answer #4 · answered by twe 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, as they do not claim a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. They claim only a relationship with Jehovah. They do not acknowledge the divinity of Christ, his bodily resurrection or His 2nd coming in which all of the "dead in Christ" and "those of us who are alive" will be caught up with Jesus in the clouds.
I could spend hours on this, but that's a VERY short version.
2006-07-02 08:22:46 · answer #5 · answered by snddupree 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I may be wrong, but I remember learning that their religion is written by a man who tells them all what to do. Their Bible isn't translated the same as the one I have, therefore it is interpreted differently too.
If it, and their beliefs system, was started by a human isn't it a cult?
Correct me please if I am wrong, but the woman who came to my door not too long ago, who was a Jehovah's Witness, didn't seem to think that the dead would rise and go to Heaven. I found that a little odd. I mean, if the are dead and don't go to Heaven, why do they need Jesus to give them Salvation?
2006-07-02 08:25:33 · answer #6 · answered by Momasita 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree with "snddupree". People of Jehovah's Witness only believe that Jesus was a good man and a prophet.
2006-07-02 08:27:06 · answer #7 · answered by CruelChick 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christians don't go door to door, ONLY Jehovah Witnesses do that.
2006-07-02 08:19:40 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
sure they are Christians another sect of the business that never dies. I would call them the fatalist sect, always looking for the end of the world. Last time i believe was 1966.
2006-07-02 08:38:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mar 9:38 And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.
Mar 9:39 But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
Mar 9:40 For he that is not against us is on our part.
Above is Jesus answer to your question. I could not say it better. Although I think all denominations are flawed I truly believe there are those who know Jesus as Lord in all of them.
2006-07-02 08:23:14 · answer #10 · answered by Lady Di-USA 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋