Jehovah's Witnesses And Their
View Of Jesus Christ
Jehovah's Witnesses freely profess to believe
in Jesus Christ. But what exactly is their view of Jesus?
Upon close examination, we find that
Jehovah's Witnesses preach a Jesus who's vastly different from the Jesus
of the Bible. Jehovah's Witnesses regard Jesus as the first and only
being directly created by Jehovah God (cf. John 1:1-3). They believe
that Jehovah God has never had any personal contact with creation, but
was indirectly responsible for the creation of all beings by empowering
Jesus to bring the physical universe into existence. It's interesting
to note that the Gnostics - who were denounced by the early church -
held strikingly similar views.
Jehovah's Witnesses also deny that Jesus is
God Almighty (cf. Phil. 2:6-7). They claim that Jesus is not all-powerful,
that He is not all-knowing, and that He is not even all-present. Curiously
enough, however, they deny these same attributes about their own Jehovah
God!
In addition to all of this, Jehovah's Witnesses
insist that Jesus should not be worshipped (cf. Matt. 2:11; 28:9; Heb.
1:6), and that prayers should not be addressed to Him (cf. Acts 7:59-60;
9:13-14). And while they concede that Jesus should be honored, they
refuse to honor Him to the same degree God the Father is honored. This,
of course, flies directly in the face of what Jesus proclaimed in John
5:23, when He said that it is God's will for "all to honor the Son just
as they honor the Father." On top of this, Jehovah's Witnesses teach
that when Jesus Christ was made flesh He became only a mere man who
might have sinned but, fortunately for us, didn't (cf. John 5:19; 7:18;
8:55).
Finally, Jehovah's Witnesses deny that Jesus
rose bodily from the grave (cf. John 2:19-22; Luke 24:39), teaching
instead that He rose in a "spirit body" (whatever that may be). Thus,
Jesus' resurrection can't be seen as a triumph over physical death when,
in fact, this is the very opposite of what Scripture reveals (1 Cor.
15:54-55). Because of these and other reasons, Jehovah's Witnesses cannot
be regarded as true Christians. Rather, they are what is classically
referred to as a cult. They claim to be Christian yet deny essential
Christian doctrine. Now, we cannot compromise when it comes to the nature
of God, and certainly not when it comes to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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