Hello, I'm a Jehovah's Witness

[JonC]

Well, there goes any reason for me to be here. I might as well make it another several months to year before I come back.

There are plenty of religious boards from which to choose. This one happens to be a Baptist Board (primarily) with other orthodox denominations. This excludes cults such as Jehovah Witnesses and LDS.

When allowing for a broad range of beliefs a line has to be drawn somewhere. There is enough diversity within Christian doctrines to keep us busy without expanding outside of the faith.

 

[Tea]

I did have a question; unfortunately, it looks as though the OP has already been kicked off.

 

[atpollard]

@Salty

Hi, I believe that the apostle John repeatedly describes the Lord Jesus Christ as the only-begotten Son of God. (Joh 1:14; 3:16, 18; 1Jo 4:9).

When you beget, you beget something of the same kind as yourself. A man begets human babies, a beaver begets little beavers and a bird begets eggs which turn into little birds. What God begets is God; just as what man begets is man.

Christ is called “The mighty god” at Isaiah 9:6, “god” at John 1:1 and “the only-begotten god” at John 1:18. Though Jesus is also distinct from, created by, and subordinate to, the Almighty God:

• “My Father is greater than I [Jesus].”—John 14:28.
• “I [Jesus] ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and your God.”—John 20:17.
• “To us there is but one God, the Father.”—1 Corinthians 8:6.
• “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”—1 Peter 1:3.

So that would be a “No.”

Let’s hope that denying the deity of Christ is not a big deal to God (… but to quote ‘I Love Lucy’: “I thin’ you got some ‘splainin’ to do!” - to God and not to me).

1 John 2:20-25 [ESV]
But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that he made to us--eternal life.

 

[Salty]

This thread is closed for sure - now.
(I thought I did so the other day.)