How Many Gods
do you Believe in?
In answer to the above question, every Jehovah's Witness will answer -- ONE! Yes, Jehovah's Witnesses worship and acknowledge only one God, namely God the Father, whom they call "Jehovah". They believe the Holy Spirit is an "active force" or God's power, and they reduce Jesus to a secondary god, who is also known as the archangel Michael in their theology. They reject the Trinity.
THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD
Jehovah's Witnesses will agree with this statement, and they are right, there is only one true God. Jeremiah 10:10 says,
"But the LORD [YHWH] is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King."
This scripture is very plain. YHWH [mistranslated "Jehovah"] is the one true God of scripture. He is the only true God BY NATURE. Galatians 4:8 explains it this way:
"However at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which BY NATURE are no Gods."
Jehovah's Witnesses will agree with the above statement. YHWH is the only true God by nature.
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WHAT ABOUT OTHER
GODS IN THE BIBLE?
By Biblical definition, all other gods mentioned in scripture are first of all FALSE, and secondly, CREATED. Space does not permit a discussion of this truth on this tract, but for more information we recommend our booklet, "Could Jesus be "a god"?
Even the demons know there is only one God! James 2:19 says,
"You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder".
We therefore have the one, true, eternal God of scripture, worthy of our worship and devotion. All others are false, created ones, and are not true gods by nature.
WHAT ABOUT JESUS?
The one, true God of scripture has revealed Himself through the pages of the Bible as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This forms the basis of the teaching called the Trinity [triunity]. For further details, please refer to our booklet, "Is the Trinity True"? In the Trinity teaching, these three persons are the one, true God. The three are one. Belief in one, true, eternal God is called "monotheism" and forms the basis of Christianity.
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MONOTHEISM VERSUS POLYTHEISM
On the other side of the argument, we find groups believing in polytheism, belief in more than one God. Mormons, Eastern and pagan religions fall into this category. Jehovah's Witnesses may be surprised to discover that they also fall into this category, since they teach that Jesus is an extra god. Let's pursue the J.W. line of reasoning a little further.
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J.W. DOCTRINE ON GOD
Jehovah's Witnesses are taught by the Watchtower Society that Almighty God Jehovah created a secondary god, Jesus Christ. To illustrate:
x + x = 2
Jehovah + Jesus = Belief in TWO - both true?
[One God] [Secondary god]
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We have already established that there is ONE TRUE GOD by nature. Now we ask the Jehovah's Witnesses the key question -- Is Jesus a true god or a false god? They will have to admit that Jesus is a true god. This forces them to believe in more than one true god! You can't believe in two true gods as the J.W.'s do and still be a Christian and a Bible believer! This is a real dilemma for Jehovah's Witnesses.
I remember presenting this concept to one Jehovah's Witness. I then asked, "how many gods do Jehovah's Witnesses believe in?" After thinking over the matter carefully, and pondering at some length, the Jehovah's Witness finally replied, "one and a half!" The explanation was of course, that they believe Jehovah [God one] created Jesus [god two], but Jesus was at the same time the archangel Michael, so Jesus became "sort of a hybrid being, a god/archangel Michael" at the same time! This reasoning also makes them polytheists, as does their rendering of John 1:1 in their "New World Translation" of the bible.
" In [the] beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god".
No reputable Bible scholars will endorse this [mis]translation. The text should read "and the Word [Jesus] was God".
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