Though their amended charter of 1944/45 states that one of Watch Tower organization's purposes is for "...public Christian worship of Almighty God and Jesus Christ..."
And though their own translation of the Scriptures did properly use the word 'worship' in reference to Jesus Christ well after 1961, until it was replaced by a word of lesser connotation, namely: obeisance.
What? Can the truth change?
Though their founder Charles T. Russell, who in Watch Tower writings was said to be that Wise and Faithful Servant of Matthew 24, whom the Lord appointed over His affairs, to give the flock their spiritual food at the right time, didn't believe that Jesus was God, did teach that Jesus was entitled to true and genuine worship, at least after His resurrection. Does this mean that if Russell was alive today and refused to change his belief, he would be disfellowshipped?
At Isaiah 42:8, God says that He will not share nor give His glory to anyone else, yet, Jesus at John 17:5 in perfect relationship with His Father claims the glory He had with His Father before the world even existed. This is not speaking of a lesser glory, as Jehovah's Witnesses would have us believe.
And even though the Bible boldly declares that the name of Jesus is above every name in heaven on earth and under the earth and commands that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow and every tongue should confess that Jesus is Lord and in doing so giving glory to God the Father, (Isaiah 45:23-24, Romans 14:11) applied to Jesus at (Philippians 2:9-12) still Jehovah's Witnesses cannot find it in their hearts to worship Him.
Please think about this! Would you, in all honesty, prefer to stand before the judgement of God having worshipped Jesus Christ to the glory of God the Father and discover that you weren't supposed to do that, or rather, to find out that you hadn't been obedient to the teaching of Scripture and that you should have truly worshipped Him.
Now is the time to worship the Son of God as Lord and God as Thomas did in John 20:28 and as all the angels are commanded to do in Hebrews 1:6 (NWT 1961) (See photo at bottom of this page).
Everyone must honour the Son just as they honour the Father because he that does not honour the Son does not honour the Father. (John 5:23)
Yes, Now is the time to Worship!
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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)