2007-11-06 04:10:29 · 23 answers · asked by Nina, BaC 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hey Nina, do you notice how they are avoiding the question? You asked do they believe in the BIBLICAL JESUS, not do they believe in Jesus. They cannot say they do because they don't but, they can say they believe another Jesus, the one in their NWT. The Apostle Paul warned about those who preach another Jesus, and another Gospel. The Apostle John warned about those who deny who Jesus really is. Paul says they are cursed and John talks about the spirit of error. But the Lord Jesus Himself gave the greatest warnings of all. He said those who do not believe He is who He says He is will die in their sins. The JW's fit all of the above. They do not know the biblical Jesus and they unintentionally I believe call God a liar. Remember no one can call Jesus Lord meaning God except by the power of God the Holy Spirit and that means believe and accept Him for who He is. The God-Man.
God in the flesh. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. The JW's do not and like all spiritually blinded people cannot know God until He is revealed to them by God the Holy Spirit who they also deny as God. Satan has blinded their minds to the truth and only God can open the eyes of the blind.
2007-11-06 04:35:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
Yes. The Bible does not teach Jesus was God Almighty. BOTH Jesus and Moses are called God or a god in the Bible (Moses more often than Jesus). Exodus 4:16, 7:1, John 1:1. THis is because both were God's means of showing himself to people.
Of course, Jesus was the brightest of the morning stars....a Bible term for God's angelic sons in heaven. Revelation 22:16, Job 38:7.
One cannot be God's son he sent down from heaven without being a created being, a literal son. John 3:16, 17:3.
Trinitarian religions edit modern Bibles a lot to remove the phrase God's son or sons of God all they can and fake other trinity proofs, but such terms still largely remain in the old KJV just as they do in the NWT of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Debbie
2007-11-06 04:50:44 · answer #2 · answered by debbiepittman 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How else would we know about Jesus except for the bible? The answer is yes. Jesus is the Son of God, the first begotten. He is not the creator of "all" things in that he himself was created. He came to earth to be a ransom sacrifice for the sin of Adam on behalf of all mankind.
Those believing that Jesus is God Almighty might read some of the letters of the early Christian fathers like Ignatius. I thought they were quite interesting and gave a different perspective on how worship is today. I am still working on reading them. I only like the very early ones in that apostasy was well entrenched in later centuries.
2007-11-06 04:49:14 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-28 11:12:28 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you are one of Jehovah's Witnesses you should not be answering this question. I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses and by all means, YES we believe in Jesus. Everyone has such misconceptions about JW's and that is one the biggest ones around. We belive that Jesus Christ is God's son, not God himself. And in the Bible not one time did Jesus ever say he was God.
And as far as JW's being a cult, you should seriously look up the word "cult" in the dictionary and as you will see Jehovah's witnesses do not fit that at all. We strictly adhere to the Bible, our worship is a way of of life, not a ritual devotion, we don't follow any human not isolate ourselves from society, and we live and work in the midst of other people.
2007-11-06 04:27:43 · answer #5 · answered by lu 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yes, we believe in the Biblical Jesus. There are, of course, hundreds of scriptures that deal with him, are there not? In their totality, they provide a clear picture of Jesus.
Yes, we believe in the Biblical Jesus because we believe in the Bible - all of the Bible.
Hannah J Paul
2007-11-06 06:59:01 · answer #6 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No they don't believe in a Biblical Jesus.
The Biblical Jesus is God incarnate. They along with ever other cult have to pretend (without ANY document evidence) that the early church didn't believe Jesus was God, that the Church went "apostate" and the manuscripts were corrupt. Sound familiar? Secularism, JW's, Mormonism, Islam all sound the same ol' trumpet of BAD historical scholarship.
2007-11-06 04:19:31 · answer #7 · answered by ἡ ἐκλογὴ 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe Jesus is Michael the archangel, the highest created being. This is not the Biblical Jesus.
2007-11-06 08:27:02 · answer #8 · answered by Freedom 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Yes.
The Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses accepts everything the bible teaches about Christ Jesus.
Ironically, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all three times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"
(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.
(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”
(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name
So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:
(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded
Learn more!
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/ti/index.htm?article=article_04.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/20050422/article_02.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/ministry.htm
2007-11-06 05:18:30 · answer #9 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I do believe JHVH Witnesses believe in Christ Jesus but does not follow "his" teachings. Oh my gosh! The poor children that died and was "murdered" because the "leaders worship death".
Ephesians 1: 6-8: "to praise of his glorious grace, which he had FREELY GIVEN us in the ONE he loves. In him we HAVE REDEMPTION through his blood, FOR the FORGIVENESS of SIN, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding."
Christ Jesus said the ONLY UNFORGIVABLE SIN is, "Blashpeme of the Holy Spirit" and whoever DENIES he is the Christ will have "eternal death".
Oh, the poor children that died!
2007-11-06 04:42:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋