A Look At Jehovah's Witnesses

The Jehovah's Witnesses believe in one God whose only name is Jehovah.  They deny the Trinity, not believing that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are God.  But the Bible does teach the Trinity (one God, in three persons).  God is three persons of one essence.  The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are all fully and equally God and have been God eternally.  The Son and Holy Spirit possess all the attributes of God just as the Father does.  

The Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus was created by Jehovah as the archangel Michael.  They  believe that Jesus is a lesser god not equal to Jehovah.  The Witnesses also believe that Jesus was merely a man when he came to earth.  They see his resurrection as merely spiritual and not bodily.  Jehovah's Witnesses see the Holy Spirit as an impersonal force from God and not an actual person.  

The Bible teaches that Jesus was not created but has existed eternally.  He is fully and equally God along with the Father and Holy Spirit.  At the Incarnation Jesus was fully God and fully man.  The resurrection of Christ was not just spiritual but also bodily.  The Bible also teaches that the Holy Spirit is not an impersonal force but a distinct person who is God along with the Father and Son.  

The Jehovah's Witnesses believe that salvation involves faith in Jesus, belonging to the Jehovah's Witnesses and keeping its rules.  They believe the Anointed Class (144,000) go to heaven while other believers will live in paradise on earth.  The Witnesses believe that unbelievers will be annihilated, they do not believe that hell is a physical, eternal place of punishment.  

The Bible teaches that salvation is by God's grace (unmerited favor) through faith in Christ alone, not by works.  Christians go to heaven and will live in the new heaven and new earth.  Unbelievers go to hell which is a physical place of eternal punishment.  

The Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian heresy, a false religion.  They terribly distort the teaching of the Bible.  The Jehovah's Witnesses deviate dramatically from historic, orthodox Christianity.  It is most definitely not Biblical Christianity.