According to Jehovah's Witness' theology, God is a single person, not a Trinity
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2007-02-11 05:34:31 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They believe that God had a creator, a series of gods with no ultimate sourse.
They have not heard of St Thomas Aquinas:
Nature of the Trinity
Aquinas argued that God, while perfectly united, is also perfectly described by three interrelated persons. These three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) are constituted by their relations within the essence of God. The Father generates the Son (or the Word) by the relation of self-awareness. This eternal generation then produces an eternal Spirit "who enjoys the divine nature as the Love of God, the Love of the Father for the Word."
This Trinity does not exist in separation from the world. On the contrary, the Trinity serves to communicate God's self and God's goodness to human beings. This takes place through the Incarnation of the Word in the person of Jesus Christ and through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (indeed, the very essence of the Trinity itself) within those who have experienced salvation by God .
They believe eleven men claim to have seen the original golden tablets on which The Book of Mormon was given to Joseph Smith.
But most of them took back their statements."
They left the Church .
The only Apostle who renounced Christ's testimony hanged himself. The others were all martyrs for Him.
They do not understand:
The LDS faith came out of Protestantism which came out of Catholicism.
2007-02-12 06:35:33 · answer #1 · answered by cashelmara 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
First of all, we do not have a theology. And second of all, we deny the trinity because it is not supported by the Bible. According to the trinity, God is made up of 3 co-equal, co-eternal, and almighty persons. Where in the Bible does it say this? NOWHERE!!
Consider what the Bible says:
At Ps. 83:18, it says that Jehovah is the Most High. Jesus called his Father the only true God at John 17:3. So if Jesus' Father is the only true God, how can Jesus and the holy spirit ALSO be the only true God?
Trinitarians will direct you to such scriptures as 1 John 5:7 and 1 Tim. 3:16. If you will look at these verses in more modern Bibles, you will find something different. 1 Tim. 3:16 will NOT say "God manifested in the flesh." And the expression "the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost" has been completely removed from the Bible. Theses verses were discovered to be false additions to the Bible.
Trinitarians are well aware that there is no scripture that says the Father, Son and holy spirit are equal, so they jump on verses that appear to say that Jesus and the Father are equal (which they don't).
One favorite scripture of trinitarians is John 10:30, where it says: "I and the Father are one." Can you see the trinity here? I don't. This scripture doesn't even mention 3 persons. It only mentons 2. And even if you could prove that the Father and Son are equal, THAT DOES NOT PROVE THE TRINITY!
Jehovah's Witnesses deny the trinity because it is not in the Bible. It is a false doctrine.
2007-02-11 05:39:46 · answer #2 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 8⤊ 4⤋
The Bible agrees that God is only one person not three. In the doctrine of the Trinity it states that Jesus is Jehovah, the Father is Jehovah, and the holy spirit is Jehovah, so basically there are three Jehovahs.
Deut 6:4 states that ““Listen, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah”. Notice in Deut 6:4 it used “IS” and only ONE person is involved. If there are three Jehovah then it should have used ARE for THREE persons.
Who is Jehovah? Isa 63:16 states “you, O Jehovah, are our Father”. So Jehovah is "Our Father" notice in Isa 63:16 it doesn't state that Jehovah is the Son, only the Father. Jesus taught in the Lord's prayer "Our Father in heaven" let your name be sanctified. The doctrine of Trinity doesn't sanctify God's name because it conflicts with the Bible.
JWs do not believe in the doctrine of the Trinity but we believe in the Father, the Son and the holy spirit as well.
2007-02-12 07:39:04 · answer #3 · answered by trustdell1 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Can you and your son be the same person? No. God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit aren't a person.
Jesus is God's first creature."He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation"-Colossians 1:15.
The Holy Spirit is God's active force.At Genesis 1:2 the Bible states that "God's active force ["spirit" (Hebrew, ru'ach)] was moving to and fro over the surface of the waters." Here, God's spirit was his active force working to shape the earth.
Many centuries before the time of Christ, there were triads, or trinities, of gods in ancient Babylonia and Assyria. The French "Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology" notes one such triad in that Mesopotamian area: "The universe was divided into three regions each of which became the domain of a god. Anu's share was the sky. The earth was given to Enlil. Ea became the ruler of the waters. Together they constituted the triad of the Great Gods."
The book "The Symbolism of Hindu Gods and Rituals" says regarding a Hindu trinity that existed centuries before Christ: "Siva is one of the gods of the Trinity. He is said to be the god of destruction. The other two gods are Brahma, the god of creation and Vishnu, the god of maintenance. . . . To indicate that these three processes are one and the same the three gods are combined in one form."—Published by A. Parthasarathy, Bombay.
A Dictionary of Religious Knowledge notes that many say that the Trinity "is a corruption borrowed from the heathen religions, and ingrafted on the Christian faith." And The Paganism in Our Christianity declares: "The origin of the [Trinity] is entirely pagan."
WHY, for thousands of years, did none of God's prophets teach his people about the Trinity? At the latest, would Jesus not use his ability as the Great Teacher to make the Trinity clear to his followers? Would God inspire hundreds of pages of Scripture and yet not use any of this instruction to teach the Trinity if it were the "central doctrine" of faith?
2007-02-11 07:11:31 · answer #4 · answered by Alex 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Because God says clearly what he and his Son are, without deception. JWs are not the only religion who follow this, nor is their Bible the only Bible to. Consider checking the first couple versions of the King James Version. It was not Authorized until it was revised four times over a 150 year time period.
Finally, what religion is overall the most Christ like in all things? If the Trinity were true, than we are all lost, as the churches of Christendom are the worse examples of good Christian value you can find.
People will say that the Trinity is traditional, going back centuries. Well, Judaism goes back even further, so don't they also have the right to be right?
2007-02-11 05:45:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 3⤋
I would like to say that the trinity is a doctrine made up by man not God. It does not even have anything to do with the bible. Also, God made man in his image. Do you have three individuals living inside of you. Well I hope not, because that would mean you have multiple personalities. The trinity actually states that there is 3 persons living inside God and that Jesus is one of them One thing I can never understand is, people say they solemly believe in Jesus yet when he says he is God's son they say no way. Why would he decieve you?
2007-02-12 08:01:39 · answer #6 · answered by ccolston2005 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Jehovah witnesses also believe that the Arch Angel Michael and Jesus are one in the same. I still can't figure that one out. I don't know why they don't believe in the Trinity. My cousin is a Jehovah witness and I don't agree with a lot of the stuff they tell her. But, I'm not going to put her down, she goes to church and she is a good person and I just don't understand her religion.
2007-02-11 05:42:04 · answer #7 · answered by crash 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Dear Robert,
It doesn't make a bit of sense to me.
I know that the word Trinity is not in God's Word
but the concept is definitely there -
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
When I read jw material I feel like I am a victim of a Bait & Switch scheme to end all Bait & Switch schemes! They call themselves Christian but call Christ "a god" making them polytheists.
http://www.soulright.com
One Truth Exposes a Thousand Lies - Traits Shares Between Jehovah and Jesus
There is a suspiciously high number of qualities that Jehovah and Jesus share. And since Jehovah God will not share His glory with anyone (Isaiah 42:8) it seems odd that the two have the same characteristics through and through!!!
2007-02-11 06:05:36 · answer #8 · answered by JOYfilled - Romans 8:28 7 · 0⤊ 6⤋
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2007-02-11 10:23:25 · answer #9 · answered by softfuzzyrabbit 2 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Why does anyone deny the Trinity? It comes from Nimrod or Lucifer. Christianity was wed to the religion of Nimrod in 325 AD at the behest of Constantine. At that time the trinity came in to vogue and not from the original teachings of Jesus but instead from the corrupt religion of Nimrod who was against God.
Anyone in their right mind will reject the trinity if they know the truth about it. Not just JWs of which I am not.
2007-02-11 05:46:07 · answer #10 · answered by regmor12 3 · 6⤊ 3⤋