The Watchtower teaches that God’s true Name is Jehovah. ‘Everlasting Father’ in Isaiah 9:6 means ‘Father of eternity’. Since Jesus is not the Father, why does Isaiah call Jesus ‘Everlasting Father’?Īnswer: Jesus considers the Father as someone other than Himself over 200 times in the NT. Question: What is meant by calling Jesus ‘Everlasting Father’? Mark 1:3 and John 1:23 apply Jehovah here to Jesus. ‘Prepare ye the way of the Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for our God (430)’. In Isaiah 40:3 Jesus is called both Jehovah (3068) and Elohim (430) in the same verse: Iv) ‘For the Lord (YHWH) your God (430) is God (430) of gods.a great God.’(Deut 10:17) Iii) ‘I prayed to the God (430) of heaven’. Notice that ‘Elohim (430)’ is also used to describe Jehovah God as: The phrase ‘Mighty God’ is ‘Elohim’ in Hebrew, meaning ‘Fullness of power’, portrayingĬhrist as the ‘powerful Governor of the universe’. Isaiah 44:8b shows this to be false by denying the existence of ‘a god’ other than Jehovah. The NWT translates John 1:1 as ‘the word was a god’. (Isaiah 44:6b)ī) ‘Is there a God (433) besides Me? Yea, there is no God I know not any’.(Isaiah 44:8b).Ĭ) ‘I am the Lord (YHWH), and there is none else,there is no God beside me’(Isaiah 45:5a) Note: There is only one Mighty God in heaven:Ī) ‘I am the first and I am the last beside me there is no God (430)’. God’ (Isaiah 9:6), doesn’t this mean that the Watchtower is wrong in saying that ‘MightyĪsk: If both Jesus and Jehovah are ‘Mighty God’, then what does this tell you about Jesus’Īsk: If both Jesus and Jehovah are equally ‘Mighty God’, then isn’t this two members of (Jeremiah 32:18).īecause Jehovah and Jesus are both called ‘Mighty God’, this proves Christ’s equality withĪsk: Since Jehovah is called ‘Mighty God’ (Isaiah 10:21) just as Jesus is called ‘Mighty (Isaiah 10:20,21).ī) ‘the Great, the Mighty God (410), Jehovah of hosts, is his name’. shall stay upon Jehovah, the remnant of Jacob shall return. They think that Christ is one of lesser gods.īible teaching: The Bible shows that both Jesus and Jehovah are called ‘Mighty God’.Ī) ‘The remnant of Israel. Watchtower teaching: JWs concede that Jesus is a ‘mighty God’, but they are adamant that ‘His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God (410), the Everlasting Isaiah 9:6 - Is Jesus ‘a Mighty God’ or ‘Jehovah God’?
Is the problem in the spirit of God? Or is it a problem in humans? :)) God works through his spirit, doesn't he? Well, he created the universe with his spirit ?! He wrote the Bible with his spirit ?! He uttered prophecies with his spirit ?! And today the spirit is unable to act on the few people sitting in Warwick?ĭoes God lie when he says, ". So, if they, as "God's elected," "anointed," cannot be "inspired," then they are actually sending the message that no one else can be "inspired." And then such a claim has the consequence, meaning, that God and his spirit are not able to be active. When they claim that they are not "inspired by the spirit of God," that would mean that God does not give his spirit to anyone, not even to them. When GB claims that they make mistakes in word and deed because they are not perfect and because they are not "spirit-inspired," then that is just an excuse. Sometimes it is conditioned because he says: I will love you if you love me", "if you obey, listen me".īased on the paragraphs that speak of giving / receiving a spirit, I could conclude that God gives the holy spirit to those who seek it, and those whose hearts are pure receive that spirit from God. I have loved you with everlasting love - Jer 31: 3įrom these statements we can see that love also works under certain circumstances. Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens - Psalm 36: 5 -7 How love is given or received and under what circumstances:Īnd he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him. There are also allegations relating to love. 18: 6Īlso how a man seeks or receives from another man: double measure of inheritance - Deut 21:17
a double measure of blessing - Isaiah 61: 7 his spirit without measure - John 3:34.
We find expressions that say how God gives: Some Bible passages say that God gives something to people. You have also often prayed for the favor of God, among other things asking that God's holy spirit help you, guide you, to have a spirit. You have often come across terms, God's holy spirit and God's love.