Is the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society’s teaching of Jesus Biblical?
Below we compare their teachings with the Holy Bible.
The Watchtower Teaches
Jesus was a created being.
“Jesus was called God’s “only-begotten Son” because Jehovah created him directly.
[Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life, p.39]
“This Son of God existed before John the Baptist because he had existed in heaven as a spirit son of God.
[Babylon the Great Has Fallen, p.405]
“Jesus lived in heaven as a spirit person before he came to earth. He was God’s first creation.”
[What Does God Require of Us?, p.6]
Jesus is not Almighty God.
“Some religions have removed the key, ignoring Jesus altogether. Others have distorted Jesus’ role worshiping him as Almighty God.”
[Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life, p.32]
“Clearly, Jesus is not Almighty God.”
[You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, p.40]
Jesus is not the Alpha and Omega.
“The title “Alpha and Omega” applies to Almighty God, the Father, not to the Son.”
[Reasoning From the Scriptures, p.413]
The Bible Teaches
There is only one Almighty Creator God.
I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself.
[Isaiah 44:24 NIV]
The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
[Psalm 33:4 KJV]
The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
[Job 33:4 NASB]
Jesus created all things.
For by him (Jesus) all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
[Colossians 1:16-17 NIV]
All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being…He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.
[John 1:3, 10 NASB]
The Almighty God is the Alpha and Omega.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”
[Revelation 1:8 NIV]
He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End… I will be his God and he will be my son.”
[Revelation 21:6, 7 NIV]
The one who is coming soon, the Alpha and Omega, is Jesus.
“Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End… I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.”
[Revelation 22:12-13, 16 NIV]
“Behold, I am coming soon!”
[Revelation 22:7 NIV]
He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
[Revelation 22:20 NIV]
Note:
The Alpha and Omega who is coming, is the Almighty God [cf. Revelation 1:8]
The one who said, “I am coming soon,”is the Alpha and Omega [cf. Revelation 22:7, 12]
Jesus is the Alpha and Omega who said, “I am coming soon.”[cf. Revelation 22:16, 20]
The Watchtower Teaches
The Bible Teaches
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The Mormon Religion was officially founded by Joseph Smith Jr. on April 6. 1830 after the Book of Mormon (BOM) was published in that same year.
Joseph Smith Jr. was born in Vermont on December 23, 1805. He claimed that when he was 14, he received a vision from God the Father and Jesus Christ in a grove of trees near his home where he received instructions not to join any of the Christian churches because they were all wrong.
Three years later, Smith claimed that an angel named Moroni (a character found in the BOM) appeared to him in his bedroom whom he said revealed to him that he was selected to translate "Reformed Egyptian" (a language that does not exist) from gold plates into old English. These plates were supposedly hidden near Palmyra, New York and are said to be written around the 4th century. The BOM was named after Moroni’s father, Mormon. Mormons view the BOM as sacred. No one is able to study the original plates because Joseph Smith claimed the angel took them back on May 2, 1838 (History of the Church 1:60).
Smith had a scribe named Cowdery. Smith did not actually translate directly from any plates. Rather, in his writings, he said he placed a "seer stone" in a hat and covered any light from entering it as he placed his face in the hat. According to Martin Harris, “By aid of the seer stone, sentences would appear and were read by the Prophet . . . , and when finished he would say, ‘Written,’ and if correctly written, that sentence would disappear and another appear in its place, but if not written correctly it remained until corrected,” Smith said, “By the power of God I translated the Book of Mormon from hieroglyphics".
Despite such methods of translation, there have been at least 3,913 changes made in the BOM from the time it was first published. Joseph Smith stated, “I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.” Smith also claimed that John the Baptist appeared to him on May 15, 1829 while he was translating the BOM, and instructed him to restore the church by preaching the only true gospel.
Mormons regard the BOM as sacred writings, and view it in higher standing than that of the Holy Bible. Mormon Missionaries will ask you to pray that it is true. (See our page Pray to Know)