2007-06-26 04:30:57 · 19 answers · asked by Dad 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No they don't.
2007-06-26 04:33:04 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. The following religions do NOT believe that Jesus is God come in the flesh.
Islam, Jehovah Witnesses, Mormon Church of Latter Day Saints, Judaism, Christian Scientists, Scientology, Unification Church, The Way International, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikh, Bah'ai, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, and Wicca.
Seems the only one not in bed with the other religions is Christianity.
2007-06-26 04:33:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Actually? Believe it or not, they believe he was an angel. Michael the archangel to be exact. SORRY, I just realized it's MORMANS not JW! Sorry.
I personally don't believe that. I believe he was God. God sent His Spirit into Mary -- so who was born? God's spirit was born as Jesus. Jesus isn't God the Father -- he's God the Son. They are the same being just two different forms. Jesus wanted everyone to worship God the Father -- that doesn't mean he's not God. Because God the father is 1st of the Trinity he's the "head" per-say. Jesus was a part of God. That's why he's second in the trinity. People need to understand God's individual forms. When Jesus talks about himself he talks about his individual form not as God the Father. If God is the only one we should worship why do many Christians worship Jesus too?
Let me ask you this, if God has all-power, CAN he make himself a human to show us his living word? If he can, is it possible he did?
John 14:7 "If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Also check out Philippians 2:5-7.
2007-06-26 06:55:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
In the same way the angel of Jehovah is God at
Judges 13:21 And Jehovah’s angel did not repeat appearing to Ma·no´ah and his wife anymore. Then it was that Ma·no´ah knew that he had been Jehovah’s angel. 22 Consequently Ma·no´ah said to his wife: “We shall positively die, because it is God that we have seen.”
The same way Moses was God to Pharaoh.
Ex 7:1 Consequently Jehovah said to Moses: “See, I have made you God to Phar´aoh, and Aaron your own brother will become your prophet.
The same way the judges of Israel are gods
Ps. 82:6 “I myself have said, ‘YOU are gods,
And all of YOU are sons of the Most High.
John 10: 33 The Jews answered him: “We are stoning you, not for a fine work, but for blasphemy, even because you, although being a man, make yourself a god.” 34 Jesus answered them: “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said: “YOU are gods”’? 35 If he called ‘gods’ those against whom the word of God came, and yet the Scripture cannot be nullified,
Jesus only becomes a false God if you worship him.
The angel, Moses, and the judges are spokesmen for Jehovah, they had the power of life and death over Jehovah's people.
Jesus also is Jehovah's Chief Spokesman, called the Word.
The NAB foot note for John 1:1 God(2) states that this is a quality and not an identification.
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2007-06-27 05:54:51 · answer #4 · answered by TeeM 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, we don't. The trinity dogma came out of a group of apostates looking to widen their power base in Rome, mainly Constantine.
The New Encyclopædia Britannica says: “Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord’ (Deut. 6:4). . . . The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies. . . . By the end of the 4th century . . . the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it has maintained ever since.”—(1976), Micropædia, Vol. X, p. 126.
In The Encyclopedia Americana we read: “Christianity derived from Judaism and Judaism was strictly Unitarian [believing that God is one person]. The road which led from Jerusalem to Nicea was scarcely a straight one. Fourth century Trinitarianism did not reflect accurately early Christian teaching regarding the nature of God; it was, on the contrary, a deviation from this teaching.”—(1956), Vol. XXVII, p. 294L.
Matt. 26:39, RS: “Going a little farther he [Jesus Christ] fell on his face and prayed, ‘My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.’” (If the Father and the Son were not distinct individuals, such a prayer would have been meaningless. Jesus would have been praying to himself, and his will would of necessity have been the Father’s will.)
John 8:17, 18, RS: “[Jesus answered the Jewish Pharisees:] In your law it is written that the testimony of two men is true; I bear witness to myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness to me.” (So, Jesus definitely spoke of himself as being an individual separate and distinct from the Father.)
Mark 13:32, RS: “Of that day or that hour no ones knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” (Of course, that would not be the case if Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were coequal, comprising one Godhead. And if, as some suggest, the Son was limited by his human nature from knowing, the question remains, Why did the Holy Spirit not know?)
That's just scratching the surface. Investigate Constantine if you want to know the truth about many apostasies in christendom.
2007-06-26 04:38:17 · answer #5 · answered by Suzette R 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No they do not. The Bible clearly shows that Jesus is God's Son.((Luke 1:32,35) Jesus never claimed to be God Almighty.(John 10:36) He stated he was"God's Son" Also consult John 3:16, and John 17:3 these scriptures also show Jesus and God to be two seperate beings.
2007-06-27 04:29:17 · answer #6 · answered by Paul&Zandra C 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No.
Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians; 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
2007-06-26 07:26:48 · answer #7 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
--NO WE do not , simply because Jesus did not believe he was Jehovah God--Please note:
(John 20:17-18) “. . .Jesus said to her: “Stop clinging to me. For I have not yet ascended to the Father. But be on your way to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and YOUR Father and to my God and YOUR God.’” 18 Mary Mag′da·lene came and brought the news to the disciples: “I have seen the Lord!” and that he said these things to her.”
--IN THE PROPER relationship Jesus had with Mary(never a lover or wife) he expressed to a very faithful woman that her God & his God were the very same, Jehovah God!
2007-06-27 04:44:58 · answer #8 · answered by THA 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
who was Jesus Christ praying to? he was praying to his Father Jehovah. Jesus is the son of the Most Holy Father Jehovah and he is seating at the right hand of Jehovah God. when Jesus was on the stake, he said Father they know not what they are doing. learn what we are about at www.watchtower.org
2007-06-26 07:12:28 · answer #9 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No. They believe Jesus is "a" god, inferior to "the" God - whom they call the Father.
2007-06-26 04:36:24 · answer #10 · answered by srprimeaux 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The NIV says in John 10:30, " I and the Father are one" I believe that settles it .
2015-10-12 02:12:18 · answer #11 · answered by ? 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋