Just wondering about Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons..Do you?

Question

teach ones in your religion to pray and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior or is this something that you do not do?

Answer 1

I'm not clear if you are asking if both groups are taught to pray TO Jesus Christ. If so, then the JWs abhor prayer to Jesus Christ for that is an act of worship and they cannot worship Christ without commiting polytheism (for, in their view, God the Father is the Almighty God, whilst Jesus is a mighty god - two different G/gods).

The Mormons don't pray to Jesus either because they think they can be just as much 'gods' as he is - they are aspiring to the same level of divinity that Christ has supposedly already attained. They don't have such a problem with polytheism, however, due to the multiplicity of gods in their belief system.

The Lordship of Christ is equally complex. JWs agree he is Lord but as they hold to a God and many gods, they also hold to a Lord and many lords! Jesus' lordship is subordinate to Jehovah's Lordship. And the Mormons likewise give Elohim the top position, but Jehovah (who they say is Christ) secondary lordship, and so on in their heirarchy of beings.

JWs call Christ Savior, yet again ascribe all salvation to Jehovah; it was Jehovah's plan of salvation that Jesus agreed to fulfill. It's very similar with the Mormons. But they are diametrically opposed in other ways. I'm offering this answer as one who has studied both denominations and thus has no vested interest in either promoting or demoting either of them.

Answer 2

I believe what you want to say is if they teach that: in a pray to God as an open testimony of their faith, declare before wittnesses that they accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

I don't know if they do that, but it would be a nice declaration of faith.

Answer 3

Here's two of my favorite scriptures in the Book of Mormon

Helaman 5:12
And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.

2 Nephi 25:26
And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins.

Answer 4

Yes.

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!

(John 14:6) Jesus said to him: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

(John 15:16) No matter what you ask the Father in my name he might give it to you.


Jehovah's Witnesses pray to Jehovah through God's appointed mediator Jesus Christ.

(Romans 12:12) Persevere in prayer.

(1 Thessalonians 5:17) Pray incessantly.

(1 Timothy 2:5) For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, a man, Christ Jesus

(John 14:6) Jesus said to him: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

(John 16:19,23) Jesus knew they were wanting to question him, so he said to them: “...If you ask the Father for anything he will give it to you in my name.

(John 14:9,13,14) Jesus said to him: “..Also, whatever it is that you ask in my name, I will do this, in order that the Father may be glorified in connection with the Son. If you ask anything in my name, I will do it.


In the bible, no prayer is ever said directly to Jesus. In the bible, every person who ever addresses Jesus does so because Jesus appears in front of him!

Thanks for another opportunity to share the bible truth that Jehovah God the Father is a distinct person from Jesus Christ the Son!

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

Answer 5

Jws believe rightly that Jesus is the head of the congregation (church if you like) and the way to the father is through Jesus.

Answer 6

Sure.

gw

Answer 7

yes

Answer 8

They give blood over coffee & a prayer.