2006-08-06 09:14:17 · 15 answers · asked by TJ 57 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jehovahs Witnesses do believe in the holy spirit, but not that it is god - as in the trinity doctrine.
2006-08-06 09:24:17 · answer #1 · answered by Frax 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Spirit is Jehovah:
2Corinthians 3:17 Now YHWH is The Spirit and where the
Spirit of YHWH is, there is freedom.
2006-08-06 16:23:25 · answer #2 · answered by tina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses actually *DO* believe in the Holy Spirit.
Sadly, Trinitarians and other anti-Witnesses spread the most outrageous propaganda and slander about Jehovah's Witnesses on a regular basis. Some even claim that Witnesses are not Christians!
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
http://watchtower.org/library/ti/index.htm
2006-08-06 19:37:05 · answer #3 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The do, but to them He is an "it" impersonal. They reffer to Him as "God's active force" which is silly, since MY spirit isnt an "it" he is just as much me as my body and mind are.
2006-08-06 16:19:00 · answer #4 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it is a cult, like alot of religions which are man-made. Religions made up of one man's ideas on ceremonies, laws, rituals, etc., are almost always flawed!
2006-08-06 16:19:35 · answer #5 · answered by love_2b_curious 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they follow a false gospel.
2006-08-06 16:16:34 · answer #6 · answered by 1saintofGod 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple, they don't believe the Bible.
... They aren't Christians.
2006-08-06 20:57:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
who said we don't? of course we beleive in the holy spirit! the bible talks about the holy spirit alot. please get your facts straight about us. thank you.
http://www.watchtower.org
2006-08-06 16:19:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Do you know what they DO believe? Because I sure as heck don't.
2006-08-06 16:17:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
cant believe on what u dont have of feel...its like do you know how to read...welll there are people dont know.
2006-08-06 16:19:22 · answer #10 · answered by lins 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋