Comparison Of Jehovah's Witnesses
When one compares the Jehovah’s Witnesses view on Christ and that of the early church one will find the similarity of Heresy and Gnosticism, whereas the beliefs are on the same level. Heresy and Gnosticism had played some major roles in the Doctrine of Christ for example in the person, nature and the work of Christ. Jehovah’s Witnesses believed that the Watchtower Society positions indisputably are correct and any opinions to the contrary are wrong.[1] Their beliefs are similar to what is been taught by Christianity, for example they belief that Jesus Christ is a perfect man that He is distinct from God the Father, they are taught that before Jesus was in human form he was a spirit creature and that Jesus Christ is mighty but not as mighty as Jehovah.
Jehovah’s Witnesses teaching is similar to the doctrines of Arianism whereas they believed their beliefs are immutable, they believed that Jesus was fully God, fully man within their teaching they are taught that Jesus was not God but the first creation, He existed in pre-human form as an agent of creation, a spokesman of the word that is stated in John1:1 who also took on human form. Jehovah’s Witnesses deny that it was God who shed His own blood on the cross for sinners. They use their …show more content…
own Bible the New World Translation, which have many mistranslated passages of Scripture.
Arians believed that the son has become God by grace; “the only begotten God and the strong God but not really the true God”, also Arius believed that it was “inconceivable to speak of God as coming among us as one of us and that God could not share divine life and love with creature.” [2]According to the followers of Arius, Christ was to be thought of as a preeminent creature in opposed to the Son of God.
Arians theory is that Christ a preeminent creature because he believed true divinity has no limitations and should be restricted to suffering or death. Arians believed that Christ is not equal to God and does not share God’s being due to the fact that Christ was born on the Earth and was conceived by a human
being.
The author Tal Davis made a lot of compelling point as it regards to the Doctrine of Christ, for example, when he stated that Jesus Christ is the Lord, the second Person in the Godhead who came as a man and lived a sinless life and died on the cross for our sins. He uses the scripture to bring the point across.
Jehovah’s Witnesses teaching is similar to the doctrines of Arianism whereas they believed their beliefs are immutable, they believed that Jesus was fully God, fully man within their teaching they are taught that Jesus was not God but the first creation, He existed in pre-human form as an agent of creation, a spokesman of the word that is stated in John1:1 who also took on human form. Jehovah’s Witnesses deny that it was God who shed His own blood on the cross for sinners. They use their …show more content…
own Bible the New World Translation, which have many mistranslated passages of Scripture.
Arians believed that the son has become God by grace; “the only begotten God and the strong God but not really the true God”, also Arius believed that it was “inconceivable to speak of God as coming among us as one of us and that God could not share divine life and love with creature.” [2]According to the followers of Arius, Christ was to be thought of as a preeminent creature in opposed to the Son of God.
Arians theory is that Christ a preeminent creature because he believed true divinity has no limitations and should be restricted to suffering or death. Arians believed that Christ is not equal to God and does not share God’s being due to the fact that Christ was born on the Earth and was conceived by a human
being.
The author Tal Davis made a lot of compelling point as it regards to the Doctrine of Christ, for example, when he stated that Jesus Christ is the Lord, the second Person in the Godhead who came as a man and lived a sinless life and died on the cross for our sins. He uses the scripture to bring the point across.