Here are the scriptures we referenced on the radio show on June 26th concerning the beliefs and teachings of Jehovah Witnesses.
All the information we spoke about was cited from the online book: Reasoning with the Jehovah Witnesses by Kevin Quick.
What Jehovah’s Witnesses believe:
• Jesus was the first creation of God the Father.
• God the Father created all other things through Jesus.
• It is not proper to pray to Jesus.
• Prayer is to be offered to God the Father alone, through Jesus.
• It is not proper to worship Jesus.
• Only God the Father is to be worshiped.
• God the Father alone is sovereign.
• Jesus is a god, but not God.
• Jesus is not Jehovah.
• God the Father alone is Jehovah.
Q1. Is Jesus the creator of all things?
Gen 1:26-27 — Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness…” And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him.
Isa 44:24 — Thus says the Lord [Jehovah], your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, “I, the Lord [Jehovah], am the maker of all things, stretching out the heavens by Myself, and spreading out the earth all alone…”
John 1:3 — All things came into being by Him [the Word], and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. [If Jesus was created, then he created himself]
Rom 11:36 — God…For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things.
John 1:10 — He [Jesus] was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.
Eph 3:9 — …God, who created all things…
Col 1:15-16 — And He [Jesus] is the image of the invisible God, the first-born [cp. Psa 89:27, Gen 41:51-52, Jer 31:9] of all creation. For [Gr. because] by him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities — all things have been created by Him and for Him.
Heb 1:8,10 — But of the Son…He also says, “In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed. But you remain the same, and your years will never end.”
Heb 3:3-4 — For He [Jesus] has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of a house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
Q2. Is Jesus the sustainer of all things?
Col 1:17 — He [Jesus] is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
Heb 1:3 — And He [Jesus] is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power.
Q3. Is Jesus the Savior?
Isa 43:11 — “I, even I, am the Lord [Jehovah]; and there is no savior besides Me.”
Isa 45:21 — “Is it not I, the Lord [Jehovah]? And there is no other God besides Me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none except Me.”
Hos 13:4 — “I…the Lord [Jehovah] your God…there is no savior besides Me.”
Titus 1:3 — God our Savior
Titus 1:4 — Christ Jesus our Savior
Titus 2:13 — looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus
Titus 3:4 — God our Savior
Titus 3:6 — Jesus Christ our Savior
2Pet 1:1 — to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Q4. Is Jesus the giver of things of God?
John 1:12-13 — But as many as received Him [Jesus], to them He gave the right to become children of God, [even] to those who believe in His name, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Rev 2:23 — the churches will know that I [Jesus] am He who searches the minds and hearts; and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
Q5. Does Jesus have authority to forgive sins?
Mark 2:5-7,10 — And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, “My son, your sins are forgiven.” But there were some of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, “Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but God alone?” “…the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”
Luke 5:21 — And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”
Luke 5:24 — “the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”
1Cor 8:12 — And thus, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
Eph 4:32 — And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
Q6. Does Jesus have authority to judge men? How should this affect one’s response to Him?
John 5:22,23 — “For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son, in order that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
2Cor 5:10 — For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ
Kevin Quick. (n.d.). Reasoning With Jehovah’s Witnesses.