y do jehovah's witnesses have tha new testament in their holy book if they don't believe in Jesus?

Question

i mean since they don't believe he was a/tha messiah?

if u r a jehovah's witness that would be better...

Answer 1

I am currently studying with the Jehovah's Witnesses and they definately believe in Jesus as the Messiah. Jehovah's witnesses study the Bible as a whole and do not pick and choose what scriptures to believe. Also words are not taken out as mentioned above. Infact God's name has been replaced in the New World Translation where it has been taken out of other versions and translations. It is a common misconception since they do not celebrate Christmas. Infact we believe it is only through Jesus and his ransom sacrifice that we have the hope of everlasting life in a paradise on earth. We do not believe Jesus and Jehovah are the same people as the Trinity expresses. We believe Jesus is God's only begotton son (he was made directly by Jehovah) and all other creation was made through them both. It was illustrated to me that Jehovah would be considered the architect and Jesus the builder. Luke 22:19 "Keep doing this in remembrance of me." We celebrate the memorial of Jesus death every year on Nissan 14.

Answer 2

Jehovah's Witnesses do believe in Jesus, however they differ on his role.

JW's believe that Jesus Christ was a perfect man, and that he is a person distinct from God the Father. However, they also teach that before his earthly life Jesus was a spirit creature, Michael the archangel, who was created by God and became the Messiah at his baptism. According to Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus is a mighty one, although not as almighty as Jehovah God is. According to John 1:1 in their Bible, The New World Translation, Christ is "a god" but not "the God." They teach that Jesus "was and is and always will be beneath Jehovah" and that "Christ and God are not coequal"

Answer 3

Very good point. We do believe Jesus is the Messiah. We, from studying the Bible, have come to feel that Jesus Christ is the son of Jehovah God. Sadly many misunderstand our beliefs.

Answer 4

Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that Jesus Christ was a perfect man, and that He is a person distinct from God the Father. However, they also teach that before His earthly life, Jesus was a spirit creature, Michael the archangel, who was created by God and became the Messiah at His baptism. According to Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jesus is a mighty one, although not almighty as Jehovah God is. According to John 1:1 in their Bible, The New World Translation, Christ is “a god,” but not “the God.” They teach that Jesus “was and is and always will be beneath Jehovah” and that “Christ and God are not coequal”. the name “Jehovah” is used for both God the Father and of God the Son. Although they are distinct persons they are each called “Jehovah” because they each possess deity.

Answer 5

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.”

Answer 6

Jw's do believe Jesus is the messiah. The only holiday they celebrate is the memorial of Jesus death. They just don't believe he is god, but the son of God.

Answer 7

This so-called "question" has at least two false premises.

1. Jehovah's Witnesses have no unique "holy book". Witnesses use the same bible of 66 books that has been used by Christians for centuries (or millenia).

2. Jehovah's Witnesses certainly *DO* believe that Jesus Christ was and is the Messiah. They teach that Christ was and is divine and of the same nature as 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!

Jehovah's Witnesses love and respect and honor Christ. However, Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Scriptures quite plainly demonstrate that Jesus and the Almighty are separate distinct persons, and the Almighty created Jesus as His firstborn son.

(Colossians 1:15) the firstborn of all creation

(Mark 10:18) Jesus said to him: 'Why do you call me good? Nobody is good, except one, God.

(Revelation 3:14) the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God

(Philippians 2:5-6) Christ Jesus, who, although he was existing in God's form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God

(John 8:42) Neither have I come of my own initiative at all, but that One sent me forth

(John 12:49) I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment as to what to tell and what to speak

(John 14:28) I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am

(1 Corinthians 15:28) But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him

(Matthew 20:23) this sitting down at my right hand and at my left is not mine to give, but it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father

(1 Corinthians 11:3) I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; ...in turn the head of the Christ is God

(John 20:17) I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God.

(Deuteronomy 6:4) Jehovah our God is one Jehovah

(1 Corinthians 8:4-6) There is no God but one. For even though there are those who are called "gods," whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many "gods" and many "lords," there is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him

Thanks again for an opportunity to share what the bible actually says about the distinct persons of Jesus Christ the Son and Jehovah God the Father!

Learn more!
http://watchtower.org/e/ti/index.htm?article=article_05.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20050422/
http://watchtower.org/e/20020515/
http://watchtower.org/e/rq/index.htm?article=article_03.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/lmn/index.htm?article=article_04.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/pr/index.htm?article=article_04.htm

Answer 8

Their theology really is... funked up, to the point that most christianity scholars regard them as having gone beyond the pale and exited the realm of christian denominations... but they still do call Jesus "Christ", and they believe, in the tradition of paul, that he announced a "new covenant" replacing that which God had passed with the Hebrews.

So, yeah, the DO regard him as Messiah, and they are a continuation/deviation of Calvinist protestant christianity. So they do have a use for that new testament. If they used only the old, they would be Jews.

Answer 9

Not a JW but I'm pretty sure they believe in Jesus.

Answer 10

The text that was used to translate the Jehovah's Witness bible was created at the turn of the century. It is refered to as the Stuttgard Edition. The Jewish People never accepted this translation. It was translated by Rudolph Kittel. The Jewish Encyclopedia says that Kittel was a major contributor to the Hellinistic Mystery Religions and was anti-Semitic. His son Gerhardt Kittel was tried and convicted for war crimes against the Jewish people. He was Hitlers High Priest and wrote slanderous propaganda against the Jews!