Why do Jehovah's Witnesses think that Jehovah is not the Christ? Did Jehovah or Christ create Heaven and Earth and Adam and Eve? Are all human languages created by Jehovah or the Christ? Is Jehovah the Christ or the Father?
2007-05-19 02:03:01 · 12 answers · asked by mouthbreather77 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Although it is hardly a significant doctrinal point, Jehovah's Witnesses happen to believe that the "voice" of God the Father was not heard except for three occasions mentioned in the so-called "New Testament" (see Matthew 3:17; 17:5; John 12:28, 29). During other bible accounts, God the Father (Jehovah) spoke through Jesus and angels.
(Hebrews 1:1,2) God, who long ago spoke on many occasions and in many ways to our forefathers by means of the prophets, has at the end of these days spoken to us by means of a Son
(Galatians 3:19) [The Law] was transmitted through angels by the hand of a mediator.
Even on Mount Sinai, the bible indicates that Moses did not speak directly with God the Father, but with an angelic representative.
(Acts 7:37,38) This is the Moses... This is he that came to be among the congregation in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai
Now, getting back to the initial "question" above... Jehovah's Witnesses believe the bible to teach that there are several references to Jesus in the so-called "Old Testament" which indicate that he is distinct from the "God" or "Jehovah" of the so-called "Old Testament". It is not enough to simply assert that a doctrine is true, and so Jehovah's Witnesses reason from the Scriptures on the matter...
It seems rather obvious that the apostle Luke at Acts 4:25-27 quotes from Psalms 2:1,2. Although these passages are part of the Christian and Hebrew Scriptures respectively, BOTH passages make it plain that there is an "anointed one" who is distinct from God. The Psalm plains calls that God by the name "Jehovah" (explicitly using the Tetragrammaton) and Acts plainly calls the anointed one by the name "Jesus".
(Psalm 2:1,2) [David wrote] Why have the nations been in tumult and the national groups themselves kept muttering an empty thing? 2 The kings of earth take their stand And high officials themselves have massed together as one against Jehovah and against his anointed one
(Acts 4:24-27) [The apostles prayed to God the Father about what David wrote] ‘Why did nations become tumultuous and peoples meditate upon empty things? 26 The kings of the earth took their stand and the rulers massed together as one against Jehovah and against his anointed one.’ 27 Even so, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with men of nations and with peoples of Israel were in actuality gathered together in this city against your [or "God's"] holy servant Jesus
Similarly, the apostle Paul at 1 Cor 2:16 and Rom 11:33,34 paraphrases Isaiah 40:13. Note that Isaiah explicitly uses the name "Jehovah" (the Hebrew Tetragrammaton), and 1 Corinthians plainly CONTRASTS the mind of Jehovah with the mind of Christ Jesus.
(1 Corinthians 2:16) For “who has come to know the mind of Jehovah, that he may instruct him?” But we do have the mind of Christ.
(Romans 11:33-34) O the depth of God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How unsearchable his judgments are and past tracing out his ways are! 34 For “who has come to know Jehovah’s mind, or who has become his counselor?”
(Isaiah 40:13) Who has taken the proportions of the spirit of Jehovah, and who as his man of counsel can make him know anything?
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2007-05-21 09:40:32 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah spoke thrice interior the NT, Jesus replaced into constantly present day at those events. At John 12:28 Father, glorify your call.” for this reason a voice got here out of heaven: “I the two glorified [it] and could glorify [it] back.” right here Jehovah responded Jesus. replaced into Jesus / Jehovah speaking to himself? The baptism account is direct information that Jesus isn't Jehovah. this is my Son. John 10:36, i'm God's Son. interior the OT: playstation a hundred and ten:Of David. A melody. a million The utterance of Jehovah to my Lord is: “take a seat at my precise hand until I place your enemies as a stool to your ft.”
2017-01-10 08:27:14 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matt 17:5 While he was yet speaking, look! a bright cloud overshadowed them, and, look! a voice out of the cloud, saying: “This is my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved; listen to him.”
The one speaking is from heaven, and not Jesus who was hearing Jehovah say 'This is my Son'.
I don't know how you can say Jesus is calling himself his son in this verse.
Jehovah is the Father of Christ:
Rom 15:5 Now may the God who supplies endurance and comfort grant YOU to have among yourselves the same mental attitude that Christ Jesus had, 6 that with one accord YOU may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2007-05-21 05:30:31 · answer #3 · answered by TeeM 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Jehovah is the Father,
Jesus is the Son, lower than the Father. (John 3:16)
Everything is created from Jehovah using his son. They created everything...icluding humans.
2007-05-19 02:19:01 · answer #4 · answered by sxanthop 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Simple, God sent his son (John 3:16) or a Servant (Isaiah 42:1) according to the bible all angels are sons of God (Job 1:6, 2:1) and God sent his firstson (Colossians 1:15-17) and all angels are God´s servants (Hebrew 1:14) Jehovah call him the angel or messenger of covenant (Malachi 3:1-3) the same powerful angel of Revelation 10:1-3.
In exodus 23:20 :“Here I am sending an angel ahead of you to keep you on the road and to bring you into the place that I have prepared. 21 Watch yourself because of him and obey his voice. Do not behave rebelliously against him, for he will not pardon YOUR transgression; because my name is within him. That angel was the one we know as Jesus that is why Jesus always said that what he spoke came from his father.
2007-05-19 02:07:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
Jesus never said he was Jehovah God. yes he said you seen me you seen the Father, he was with Jehovah for billions of years so he knows his Father. who was Jesus Christ praying to? you cannot pray to yourself. he also said that he cannot do anything without the power of his Father Jehovah. yes Jehovah is the Father of Jesus Christ and Mary is his mother and Joseph is his Stepfather. www.watchtower.org. Jehovah Witnesses did not change the bible. the king james bible did, they took out the name of God. read ps 83 verse 18. Jehovah Witnesses put the name of the Most Holy Father back in the places that they belong.
2007-05-19 02:07:01 · answer #6 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Jehovah is the name of the father, son and the holy spirit. There are many verses that show that Jesus is one with Jehovah
2007-05-21 01:03:04 · answer #7 · answered by RiS85 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
JW believe that Christ is the Son of God, a "king" but they do NOT believe He IS GOD - or part of the Holy Trinity.
They call him "a god."
In fact, JW changed the translation of their bible to suit their doctrine in the 1950's. The first chapter of the Gospel of John for them reads "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was A GOD." (instead of The Word Was God).
Because Jehovah's Witnesses do not accept that Jesus Christ was God and part of the Holy Trinity - teachings defined at the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. - they cannot be called a Christian denomination.
2007-05-19 02:07:03 · answer #8 · answered by Veritas 7 · 1⤊ 6⤋
Just for an example, David said, The Lord is my shephard. Jesus said, I am the good shephard.
There are lots of things in the Bible that indicates that Jesus was the Lord in the Old Testament. He spoke to Moses in the burning bush etc.
We will never fully understand this, but Jesus was God the Father's son in the fullest sense. Still I think their roles are different, the Father is the highest authority in our universe, but his son share his divine qualities. NO, we shouldn't speculate, but always remember that if God is love it means that both the Father and the Son are love.
2007-05-19 02:20:16 · answer #9 · answered by leech 2 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Jehovah is God.
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2007-05-19 02:08:33 · answer #10 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋