What exactly do Jehovah Witness's believe about Jesus? Do they accept him as a God or only a Prophet?
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As one of Jehovah's Witnesses I can tell you that we believe Jesus to be the only-begotten Son of God,the only Son produced by Jehovah alone.This Son is the firstborn of all creation.By means of him all other things in heaven and on earth were created.He is the second-greatest personage in the universe.It is this Son whom Jehovah sent to the earth to give his life as a ransom for mankind,thus opening the way to eternal life for those of Adam's offspring who would exercise faith.This same Son,restored to heavenly glory,now rules as King,with authority to destroy all the wicked and to carry out his Father's original purpose for the earth.The Hebrew form of the name Jesus means"Jehovah is Salvation";Christ is the equivalent of the Hebrew Mashiach(Messiah),meaning "Annointed One"
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both jews and christians believe in jehovah, the god of the bible...they differ in who they think the messiah is...or who jesus is...in relation to the father God, jehovah\n\nmuslims believe in one god , allah, but he is not jehovah.  allah opposes jehovah.
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Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Scriptures alone quite plainly demonstrate that Jesus and the Almighty are separate distinct persons, and the Almighty created Jesus as His firstborn son.\n\n(Colossians 1:15) the firstborn of all creation\n\n(Mark 10:18) Jesus said to him: 'Why do you call me good? Nobody is good, except one, God.\n\n(Revelation 3:14) the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God\n\n(Philippians 2:5-6) Christ Jesus, who, although he was existing in God's form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God\n\n(John 8:42) Neither have I come of my own initiative at all, but that One sent me forth\n\n(John 12:49) I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment as to what to tell and what to speak\n\n(John 14:28) I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am\n\n(1 Corinthians 15:28) But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him\n\n(Matthew 20:23) this sitting down at my right hand and at my left is not mine to give, but it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father\n\n(1 Corinthians 11:3) I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; ...in turn the head of the Christ is God\n\n(John 20:17) I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God.\n\n(Deuteronomy 6:4) Jehovah our God is one Jehovah\n\n(1 Corinthians 8:4-6) There is no God but one. For even though there are those who are called "gods," whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many "gods" and many "lords," there is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him\n\nLearn more!\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/ti/index.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/ti/
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Jesus was not just a messenger.  More importantly he is the messiah, god in the flesh, and the perfect example of how we are to live.\nIn the OT it says that the messiah is God.  Only God can take away sin.  He was the ultimate scrifice.  There are sveral cults who say that Jesus is not God, they have been deceived.  \n\nMore :\n\n  In addition to Jesus’ specific claims about Himself (see Is Jesus God?), His disciples also acknowledged the deity of Christ. They claimed that Jesus had the right to forgive sins - something only God can do, as it is God who is offended by sin (Acts 5:31; Colossians 3:13; cf. Psalm 130:4; Jeremiah 31:34). In close connection with this last claim, Jesus is also said to be the one who will "judge the living and the dead” (2 Timothy 4:1). Thomas cried out to Jesus, "my Lord and my God!” (John 20:28). Paul calls Jesus “great God and Savior” (Titus 2:13), and points out that prior to His incarnation Jesus existed in the “form of God” (Philippians 2:5–8). The writer to the Hebrews says regarding Jesus that “Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever” (Hebrews 1:8). John states that, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word [Jesus] was God” (John 1:1). Examples of Scriptures that teach the deity of Christ could be multiplied (see Revelation 1:17; 2:8; 22:13; 1 Corinthians 10:4; 1 Peter 2:6–8; cf. Psalm 18:2; 95:1; 1 Peter 5:4; Hebrews 13:20), but even one of these is enough to show that Christ was considered to be deity by His followers.\n\n \n\nJesus is also given titles that are unique to Yahweh (the formal name of God) in the Old Testament. The Old Testament title “redeemer” (Psalm 130:7; Hosea 13:14) is used of Jesus in the New Testament (Titus 2:13; Revelation 5:9). Jesus is called Immanuel ("God with us" in Matthew 1). In Zechariah 12:10, it is Yahweh who says, “They will look on me, the one they have pierced.” But the New Testament applies this to Jesus’ crucifixion (John 19:37; Revelation 1:7). If it is Yahweh who is pierced and looked upon, and Jesus was the one pierced and looked upon, then Jesus is Yahweh. Paul interprets Isaiah 45:22–23 as applying to Jesus in Philippians 2:10–11. Further, Jesus’ name is used alongside Yahweh’s in prayer “Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ” (Galatians 1:3; Ephesians 1:2). This would be blasphemy if Christ were not deity. The name of Jesus appears with Yahweh's in Jesus' commanded to baptize “in the name [singular] of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19; see also 2 Corinthians 13:14. In Revelation John says all creation praised Christ (the Lamb) - thus Jesus is not part of creation (5:13).\n\n \n\nActions that can be accomplished only by God are credited to Jesus. Jesus not only raised the dead (John 5:21; 11:38–44), and forgave sins (Acts 5:31; 13:38), He created and sustains the universe (John 1:2; Colossians 1:16-17)! This point is made even more forceful when one considers that Yahweh said He was alone during creation (Isaiah 44:24). Further, Christ possesses attributes that only deity can have: eternality (John 8:58), omnipresence (Matthew 18:20, 28:20), omniscience (Matthew 16:21), omnipotence (John 11:38-44).\n\n \n\nNow, it is one thing to claim to be God or to fool someone into believing it is true, and something else entirely to prove it to be so. Christ offered as proof of His claim to deity many miracles and even rose from the dead. Just a few of Jesus' miracles include turning water to wine (John 2:7), walking on water (Matthew 14:25), multiplying physical objects (John 6:11), healing the blind (John 9:7), the lame (Mark 2:3), and the sick (Matthew 9:35; Mark 1:40–42), and even raising people from the dead (John 11:43–44; Luke 7:11–15; Mark 5:35). Moreover, Christ Himself rose from the dead. Far from the so-called dying and rising gods of pagan mythology, noth
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Jehovah's Witnesses are members of an international religious organization who believe themselves to be the restoration of first-century Christianity. Founded in the 1870s by Charles Taze Russell under the name Bible Students, they underwent numerous schisms and later adopted the name Jehovah's Witnesses in 1931 under Joseph Franklin Rutherford. Official membership now stands at over 6 million. They are known for their extensive preaching, evangelistic, and publishing activities, with The Watchtower and Awake! religious magazines being their most widely known publications. Headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, they are directed by a Governing Body.\n\nJehovah's Witnesses are generally socially conservative. Being politically neutral, they have been persecuted by various governments, notably by the Nazi government, with many sent to concentration camps. They have been instrumental in establishing religious freedoms in various countries. Their unique stand on refusing blood transfusions has also garnered publicity and controversy.\n\nSince their foundation, they have been concerned with the second advent of Jesus. Initially holding many similar views of other 19th century Advent groups, such as the Millerites, they have since developed their own unique eschatology.
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well Jesus was not just a prophet , He said He is God. He is called the King of kings. and one day all knees will fall and ALL tongues confuse Jesus is Lord.
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Jehovah's Witnesses believe strongly in God Jehovah and in his Son Jesus Christ.\n\nJehovah's Witnesses practice strict political and nationalistic neutrality, so they do not celebrate nationalistic holidays such as Independence Day and Memorial Day.\n\nOther holidays derive from false religion, and so are incompatible with pure worship as adulterating interfaith. For example, Easter derives from the pagan god Oestre and celebrates "rebirth" and "fertility" instead of commemorating Christ's Last Supper and death as Jesus commanded:\n(Luke 22:1-22) [Jesus] dispatched Peter and John, saying: “Go and get the passover ready for us to eat.” ...14 At length when the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. 15 And he said to them: “I have greatly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; 16 for I tell you, I will not eat it again until it becomes fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” ... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.”\n\nSeemingly innocuous holidays may have only a tangential connection with false worship, such as Mother's Day and Father's Day (although arguably derived from ancestor worship). Understated observance of these is not generally considered interfaith by Jehovah's Witnesses, but it is too easily misunderstood in some cultures.\n\nSince such celebrations are not required in true worship, and can easily become a distraction, so Jehovah's Witnesses focus their attention elsewhere. In particular, they are focussed on the preaching work which *IS* a requirement for Christians:\n\n(Luke 10:1-17) [Jesus] the Lord designated seventy others and sent them forth by twos in advance of him into every city and place to which he himself was going to come. 2 Then he began to say to them: “The harvest, indeed, is great, but the workers are few. Therefore beg the Master of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20050101a/article_01.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/rq/article_11.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20001215/article_01.htm
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Jehovah's Witnesses believe in the Bible, just like most Christians. We also believe in Jesus Christ, only we don't believe in him being equal to God, we believe that he is God's Son not his equal.We do not believe in the trinity, nor do we believe in the rapture.\nAlso, the reason that we believe there are only 144,000 that go to heaven is because in Revelations 14:1 it states: 'And I saw, and look! the Lamb standing upon Mt.Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand having his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads.'\nWe also believe in a resurection as the person who posted before me mentioned, ONLY we don't believe that everyone who is resurected will go to heaven, those resurected will live forever in an earthly Paradise, where there will be no more sickness, pain, or death. You find the scripture which supports this view at Revelation 21:3-5 and also in the Lord's Prayer at Matthew 6:9,10 where it mentions that we should pray for God's kingdom to come and his will take place, as in heaven, ALSO upon the earth.\nSo, I hope that answered your questions, as a source I'm going to put the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society(the head organization of Jehovah's Witnesses) website. I encourage you to visit it.
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If Muslims don't believe Jesus was God Jehovah, They are right. Jesus was NOT God Jehova.\n\nWhoever told you He was, was pull'n your leg.\n\nJesus is The Son of God Jehovah.\n\ngreat prophet?  Who is this Great Prophet? Jesus?  lol\n\nhmmmmmmmmmmm. I see someone needs to stay after class and get this correct.
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Jesus was not only "divine" but was ans is Deity Incarnate.\n\nMany have claimed that they are Christ, or that they are "god".\n\nJesus died (delivered for our offences) and was raised the third day (for our justification) and He, though dead, now is Alive forevermore.\n\nAfter His Resurrection, "he showed himself alive by many infallible proofs".\n\nWhile He as on earth, as the Bible records, "and many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, the which are not written in this book, but these are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God ... and that by believing you may have Life in His name."
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I'm a christian and have studied the Bible with the Jehovah's Witnesses.  They're the only one's that from what I can see actually follow the Bible and make any sense.\n\n1)Don't bow down to saint's and crosses (Exodus 20:4 “You must not make for yourself a carved image or a form like anything that is in the heavens above or that is on the earth underneath or that is in the waters under the earth. 5 You must not bow down to them nor be induced to serve them )\n\n2) See Christmas as Pagan (enter christmas pagan in any search engine and see what you get)\n\n3) Don't believe in the trinity (John 14:28 ...because the Father is greater than I am, & Acts 7:55 ...being full of holy spirit, gazed into heaven and caught sight of God’s glory and of Jesus standing at God’s right hand)\n\n4) Don't believe in a firey hell (Which is translated from the Greek word Hades and Hebrew word Sheohl, simply refering to man's common grave.  And the Greek word Gehenna, which is used to symbolise eternal destruction).\n\n5) And use Gods name 'Jehovah' (in most Bible at Exodus 6:3, Exodus 3:15, Psalms 83:18, although it is in the Hebrew scriptures nearly 7000 times, but is translated simply to God or Lord).\n\nand many more things.
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Muslims (and Islam) say Jesus was a prophet but they reject all His teachings ....that is hypocrisy.\n\nThey reject Christ's divinity;\nthey reject his claim to be the Son of God;\nthey reject his death on the cross...\nthey reject His ressurrection..\nThey reject Jesus is the Christ/ Messiah...\nNeed I say more...?\n\nDon't be deceived. The Islamic god is totally different than the God of Jesus Christ .\n\n"Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ?  He is anti-Christ, that denies the Father and the Son. He that denies the Son, the same has not the Father." (I John 2:22)
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Would you like to know my God Jehovah?\nIf so, visit http://watchtower.org\n\nWith all due respect, how do you know that he is the one to be worshiped? Have you studied other faiths to see for yourself if it is true? I have. \n\nI am not trying to be rude or mean, I know that it seems that way, but that is far from the truth.\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nI am so sorry for the so called Christians in here that have said the things that they say, true Christians are not that way!
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Wow! Talk about strange answers!!!!!\nBelow find a link to our website where you can learn a lot about us.\nIt is true that many condem us for our work for and with God.\nWe are followers of Christ/Jesus , Jehovah's son. We do as he requested us to do, educate people according to his father's teachings. We carry God's name, not his title 'God' is a title, as is Lord.\nIf you have an older King James Bible, you will find God's name at Psalms 83 verse 18.\nAlso you can find in Isahiah 43 verses 10 through 12 where he gave us his name to use.\nWe are the only religon that is authorized to carry God's name. Click on the link below for additional information and any help you wish.
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Sincire bible students recognize that WHENEVER the Almighty executes judgment upon a people, He ALWAYS sends a prophet first to perform a warning work. For example, 2 Peter 2:5 shows that Noah did not just build an ark, but preached what was needed to survive that global flood (2 Peter 2:5 "Noah, a preacher of righteousness").\n\nSo, in that limited sense, Jehovah's Witnesses as an organization are performing a prophet's work of warning mankind how they may survive Armageddon. Around the world, humanity recognizes that Jehovah's Witnesses are the ones most prominently fulfilling Christ's assignment to preach:\n\n(Matthew 28:19) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations\n\nIncidentally, Jehovah's Witnesses do *NOT* teach that they or their publications are infallible or inspired by God. The only direction humans currently have which is infallible is the Holy Scriptures.
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Again, Jehovah's Witnesses are the only ones practicing true worship acceptable to the Almighty. You can learn more from:\n\nhttp://www.watchtower.org
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The ASKER wants arguments. Yes, this is a good question to really PROVE or DISPROVE a belief. Here is another argument AGAINST:\n\nPrem1: The Bible says that there are many gods, but only one true God the Father. ( 1Corinth 8:5,6; Psl 82:1 )\n\nPrem 2: JEHOVAH is the Almighty God. He is the God of gods. (Ex 6:3; Deut 10:17, King James of 1611 )\n\nPrem 3: Jesus is a god (or God). But he himself admitted that the Father is greater than he; that there are things Jesus can not do. (John 1:1; 5:30; Mat 20:20-23; 24:36,etc )\n \nCONCLUSION: Therefore, although there are many gods as the Bible says, these gods are of lesser power or might compared to Almighty God, JEHOVAH. Further, although Jesus is a god (or God to some) he has Limited powers or authority as he himself admitted.\n\nNote please re. 1John 5:7: "...these three are one" is a GLOSS--or a mischievous insertion--according to some Biblical scholars. That is why in some revised King James Version, these words are omitted. In some translations you won't find these words.\n\nTo the unbiased reader: \nJesus himself said: 'you must love God with all your MINDS...”  Judge for your self whether the Trinity is really a Biblical teaching, or just men's tradition to invalidate God's words.