According to the Watchtower, Jesus was “a perfect man—nothing more, nothing less—and the exact counterpart of the once perfect Adam.” (The Watchtower, “Appreciating the Salvation of Our God,” 8/1/73, p. 465)
Adam was created perfect and sinless and placed in a garden paradise, yet in a short time he failed miserably.
Jesus was born into a sin-infested world.
If, as the Watchtower claims, Jesus wasn’t God in human flesh, there would be constant risks that he might fail as well. Continue reading
Consider the importance of this issue.
In John 10:11-14, Jesus said, “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me…”
If the Watchtower is right, then Jehovah sat safely in heaven and selected someone else to become a man and die a horrendous death to atone for our sins.
But if we are right, then God himself, in the person of Jesus Christ, personally came and bore the consequences of his own righteous wrath against sin in order to save us.
The Good Shepherd of Psalm 23 himself came to earth and gave his life for the sheep.
That’s a big difference! Continue reading
The Watchtower does not believe in the incarnation of Jesus Christ.
That’s not surprising, given that it doesn’t believe in the deity of Christ. Continue reading
In the Watchtower Bible, 1 Timothy 2:6 reads as follows: “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, a man, Christ Jesus, who gave himself a corresponding ransom for all—this is what is to be witnessed to in its own due time.” (emphasis added)
So far as I can find, no other translation includes the word “corresponding,” but the Watchtower builds much of its Christology around it.
In its book Good News to Make You Happy (1976), p. 118, the Watchtower states: “Jesus was not half God, half man. He was not God in the flesh. To atone for ‘one man’s [Adam’s] trespass’, ‘the one man, Jesus Christ’ had to correspond exactly to the once-perfect Adam. He had to be a perfect man, nothing more, nothing less. (Romans 5:15)” Continue reading
The Bible only mentions one archangel, and Jude 9 gives his name as Michael.
The Watchtower asserts that Michael is also Jesus Christ. Continue reading
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