They teach that Jesus is not God (Jesus IS the Lord God Almighty).
They teach that Jesus did not die on a cross (He did).
They teach that Jesus is really Michael the Archangel (Jesus is God and not a created angel)
They reject the Holy Trinity. God IS Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
2007-02-09 03:56:38 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What part of this question is "bashing"?
2007-02-09 04:00:41 · update #1
To "T J M", who says that Jesus' disciples never said Jesus was God.
The disciple Thomas called Jesus "My Lord and My God". (John 20:28)
How much more do you want them to say??
2007-02-09 04:34:32 · update #2
Not and keep a straight face.
Same with members of the LDS.
They both like Jesus' teaching, but deny His Deity.
Both churchces are considered cults for this practice and others, which include false prophesy.
2007-02-09 04:00:53 · answer #1 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Counterfeit Christianity is probably the best description I can give for a cult. Counterfeit Christianity is an imitation of real Christianity. Bible terms like "Jesus Christ, Resurrection, Salvation, and Atonement" are used by the Cult, but the various cult groups have assigned entirely different meanings to these terms.
Like counterfeit money which is sometimes difficult to detect, so it is difficult to detect counterfeit Christianity, since it looks like the real thing. Experts examining counterfeit money often hold it up to a strong light and look for identifying marks. Counterfeit Christianity also has identifying marks, which can be seen when, held up to an even stronger light, the light of God's word, the bible.
We are at an advantage if we know what to expect from a cult. Cultists are very well trained to appear "Christian", and indeed believe they are the true churches, and you need the deliverance! Therefore, be bold and ask the question, "do you believe the group you represent is the only true church on the face of the earth?"
If they reply that they are, or if they are evasive, making remarks like "Well, every church has a measure of truth but...", you have made an early detection of a Cultist.
Every true Christian, if asked the same question, regardless of his denomination, would reply that the true church is comprised of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, and HE (not some organization) is THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE, (John 14:6). No legitimate denomination would claim that they alone and their members have salvation exclusively, but the cults (the counterfeits) do.
2007-02-09 05:27:55 · answer #2 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Bible calls Jesus, only begotten Son of God, Christ/Messiah, The Word, Lord, but never "Lord God Almighty" nor "Lord God". Please check the Bible. The term "Lord God" and Almighty God are terms only used for Jehovah, the Father. Jesus calls his Father "MY GOD" both while he was on earth and when he went back to heaven. COl 1:15 calls Jesus the Firstborn of all creation.
The Bible teaches that Jesus died on the original meaning of stauros and xylon which is stake/tree. Cross is a latter meaning only. See Vine's Expository Dictionary.
The Bible teaches that Jesus is the bright morning star, Rev 22:16, Job 38:4-7 states "(Job 38:4,7) When [Jehovah] founded the earth... When the morning stars [or "angels"] joyfully cried out together, And all the sons of God began shouting in applause"
(1 Thessalonians 4:14-16) Jesus died and rose again, so, too... the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel's voice
The Bible doesn't teach the Trinity, it only states that Jehovah is one Jehovah, not three. See Deut 6:4. The Bible teaches though that we have to believe in the Father, and the Son and the holy spirit (not a separate person of God, but a part of God, God's finger - See Luke 11:20)
To answer your question, you have to know what a true Christian is.
A true Christian believes that Jesus is the divine/holy Son of God, the Christ, the Way to the Father.
A true Christian follows and believes in the Bible as the Word of God.
A true Christian believes that Jesus' Father is Jehovah and he is the true God (John 17:3, Psalms 83:18)
A true Christian preaches and excercises faith to Christ, and the Father (John 17:26, John 3:16)
True Christians have faith in Jesus and his Father(John 14)
True Christians make Our Father’s name known so that the love of Christ be with them & Jesus be with those who showed faith (John 17:26)
Their form of worship is clean and undefiled and their teachings have no pagan roots (James 1:27).
True Christians are no part of the world (John 15:19)
True Christians believe that their salvation is from the Father and from the Son (Rev 7:10)
True Christians do the will of the Father, Jehovah as Jesus commanded in Mat 7:21
True Christians magnify Jehovah's name (Mat 6:9)
True Christians’ warfare is not of the flesh (2 Cor 10:3,4)
True Christians believe that we have to be in subjection to the existing human governments because they act as ministers also for our own good (Romans 13)
True Christians have love among themselves so they don't kill each other during times of war and distress (John 13:35)
True Christians bear good fruits (Mat 7:17-20)
True Christians love God’s commandments and follow them (1 John 2)
True Christians preach about God’s kingdom.(Mat 28)
True Christians believe that there is only One God, not Three Persons (not a trinity which is not taught in the BIble) Deut 6:4
and many more…
Who among the existing religions show that? Jehovah's Witnesses fit those descriptions.
2007-02-09 09:31:18 · answer #3 · answered by trustdell1 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You have a skewed view of some of the doctrine too. Can you really be called Christian? Ie, that God the Father and God the Son and the Holy Spirit are the same being. Read the Bible. It does not support that notion.
Pay special attention to the Baptism of Jesus and then ask yourself who was Jesus talking to in John 17.
No, a Christian religion is a religion that believes that the only way to God is through Jesus Christ.
2007-02-09 04:04:38 · answer #4 · answered by rbarc 4 · 3⤊ 5⤋
Yes! We are Christian... Cause We Preach The Good News of God's Kingdom... Just like Jesus did when he was here on Earth...
Jesus Christ
Definition: The only-begotten Son of God, the only Son produced by Jehovah alone. This Son is the firstborn of all creation. By means of him all other things in heaven and on earth were created. He is the second-greatest personage in the universe. It is this Son whom Jehovah sent to the earth to give his life as a ransom for mankind, thus opening the way to eternal life for those of Adam’s offspring who would exercise faith. This same Son, restored to heavenly glory, now rules as King, with authority to destroy all the wicked and to carry out his Father’s original purpose for the earth. The Hebrew form of the name Jesus means “Jehovah Is Salvation”; Christ is the equivalent of the Hebrew Ma·shi´ach (Messiah), meaning “Anointed One.”
Does John 1:1 prove that Jesus is God?
John 1:1, RS: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God [also KJ, JB, Dy, Kx, NAB].” NE reads “what God was, the Word was.” Mo says “the Logos was divine.” AT and Sd tell us “the Word was divine.” The interlinear rendering of ED is “a god was the Word.” NW reads “the Word was a god”; NTIV uses the same wording.
What is it that these translators are seeing in the Greek text that moves some of them to refrain from saying “the Word was God”? The definite article (the) appears before the first occurrence of the·os´ (God) but not before the second. The articular (when the article appears) construction of the noun points to an identity, a personality, whereas a singular anarthrous (without the article) predicate noun before the verb (as the sentence is constructed in Greek) points to a quality about someone. So the text is not saying that the Word (Jesus) was the same as the God with whom he was but, rather, that the Word was godlike, divine, a god. (See 1984 Reference edition of NW, p. 1579.)
What did the apostle John mean when he wrote John 1:1? Did he mean that Jesus is himself God or perhaps that Jesus is one God with the Father? In the same chapter, verse 18, John wrote: “No one [“no man,” KJ, Dy] has ever seen God; the only Son [“the only-begotten god,” NW], who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.” (RS) Had any human seen Jesus Christ, the Son? Of course! So, then, was John saying that Jesus was God? Obviously not. Toward the end of his Gospel, John summarized matters, saying: “These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, [not God, but] the Son of God.”—John 20:31, RS.
2007-02-09 04:13:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
It is sometimes interesting when people explain the traditions of their family or group, repeating things they have heard from relatives and neighbors. However, true Christians are primarily interested in WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES (see Scriptures below).
Meanwhile, 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 three 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
2007-02-09 05:16:00 · answer #6 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
There are many calling their self Christians in this day's, perhaps they are?, as well that there are many false Prophets? the way I see it easy to spot, most every so call Christian church in U.S., has this prophets, taking in account that to become a priest in this U.S., Country it takes only 350.00 Dls., cost. I like to read from a Catholic perspective, I'm Catholic my self and very proud of it, is hard to get alone with everyone, though remember don't get to judge them, some of the literature they present is good to read, because they do talk about the Son of God, as been the perfect sample of how we should be and behaved with one another?, They can reject what ever they want, in the end you know and I know God will have the answer, and I do believed as you say, Jesus will soon to become God, should be seeing as such because God said, Jesus will become God, one day, I don't know what are they thinking if to get to the Father, they can only get there through the Son????Glory to Jesus because he is the Glory of his Father, I just which I could do for my own earthly Father the same as Jesus did for his. thank-you God.
2007-02-09 04:11:52 · answer #7 · answered by paradiseemperatorbluepinguin 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No they are not, they are a cult.
They are not following sound doctrine, which is the teachings of Christ Jesus.
They have added to God's word and they have taken away from it. They are obsessed with end times, and they believe they are the 144,000 to be saved- which that is specifically talking about jewish men who are virgins.
I don't know where they get all of this from-but it is definately contrary to what the word of God says.
1 Timothy 6:2-5
Teach and urge these things. 3If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound[a] words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, 4he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, 5and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
2007-02-09 04:01:10 · answer #8 · answered by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
The Bible itself reveals those doctrines that are essential to the Christian faith. They are 1) the Deity of Christ, 2) Salvation by Grace, and 3) Resurrection of Christ, and 4) the gospel. These are the doctrines the Bible says are necessary. Though there are many other important doctrines, these four are the only ones that are declared by Scripture to be essential. A non-regenerate person, or a cultist (i.e., Mormon or Jehovah's Witness), will deny one or more of these essential doctrines. Please note that there are other derivative doctrines of scripture that become necessary also, the Trinity being one.
2007-02-09 04:02:18 · answer #9 · answered by Sternchen 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Jesus never said he was God. even the 12 said he was the son of the Most Holy Father Jehovah. when he prayed he prayed to his Father in the heaven. you cannot pray to yourself. when Jesus was batized, Jehovah came down like a dove and said this is my son. so how can Jesus be God. the Holy Spirit is Jehovah's active force. learn what a cult is. a cult worships man. and live together. we worship Jehovah and Jesus and live in 236 lands and work on jobs. a cult dont work and they take peoples money. we have our own money and pay. also God can not die only Jesus Christ die.
2007-02-09 04:01:29 · answer #10 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 2⤊ 5⤋