What to Ask a Jehovah Witnesses When They Come Knocking At Your Door

When a Jehovah Witness shows up at your door, what can you ask them and what do you say to prove they have the wrong Jesus, meaning they have the wrong Savior?

Jehovah (False) Witnesses

When a Jehovah Witness shows up at your door, what can you ask them and what do you say to prove they have the wrong Jesus, meaning they have the wrong Savior? If they have the wrong Savior, they do not have eternal life, so we must warn them…lovingly and gently. The Bible is clear about the full deity of Jesus Christ. Paul wrote in Colossians 2:9, “For in Him dwells all the fullness of God bodily.” As God, Jesus is omniscient (John 1:48, 2:25, 14:30, 21:17, etc.). No created beings can be omniscient for this is only an attribute that can be held by God. Only God can forgive sins and so this is why Jesus died (Mark 2:5-7, Eph 1:7), but no created being can forgive sins.

Only God is able to grant eternal life (John 10:28, 17:2, etc.). No human or created being can grant anyone eternal life. Jesus, as God, is also the Creator of all things (Col 1:15-17). No created beings can create out of nothing (John 1). Only Jesus, as God, can miraculously heal, raise the dead and have the power and authority to do so (Matthew 9:1-8, Mark 2:1-12, Luke 5:17-26, etc.).

Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that Jesus first preexisted as the Archangel Michael, although these are two distinct personages. They believe that after His ascension, He once again became Michael to sit on the throne next to God to await the end of the seven “times of the Gentiles,” however Revelation 21:5 shows Him seated at the right hand of God, not Michael.

New World Translation Errors

Jehovah’s Witnesses use the New World Translation (NWT) and the Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures (KIT), but the vast majority of scholars know that these translations are deceptive and have been found with major doctrinal errors; errors, it appears, that were made only made to fit their theology. One example is that they have inserted the word Jehovah hundreds of times in the New Testament when in fact there is not one single appearance of the use or word Jehovah in the original Hebrew (Old Testament) or in the Greek (New Testament), nor is it found in earliest copies or translations of the Bible. By the way, there are no vowels in the original Hebrew manuscripts, so it could not be Jehovah. His name is, in reality, YHWH, so there’s a major distortion of the original text in John 1:1 which says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

The NWT has incorrectly inserted the word “a” to make the text read, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was “a” God, and the Word was God.” Not only have they inserted a word that was not in the original Greek (“a’), but they have taken out a word that was in the original Greek text (“with”). They have taken text out of context to make a pretext, and a false one at that! God’s Word says there are no others gods before Him (Isaiah 43:10; 44:6, 8). For us who believe in Christ, there is only One True God, and so “for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live” (1 Cor 8:6).

Doctrines of Demons

Each member of the Trinity has a part in a person’s coming to saving faith in Jesus Christ.

Jehovah Witnesses don’t believe in an eternal hell, that there is no Trinity, there is no immortality to the soul, the Holy Spirit is not a person but a force or power, there is no belief in predestination, the bodily return of Jesus, and they even refuse to salute the American flag because of their conscientious objections to military service and patriotism. One of their greatest errors is that they believe that the Holy Spirit is a force of God and not God Himself, even though the Bible clearly teaches that the Holy Spirit is a person (Matt 28:19-20). Each time the Holy Spirit is mentioned in the Bible, it is always capitalized, meaning that it’s a personal pronoun, designating personhood.

The Holy Spirit’s Personhood

Before Jesus was to go to the cross to die for sinners and then return to the Father, He told the disciples that He would send them a Helper (capitalized) and said “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come” (John 16:13). Notice Jesus called the Spirit “he” several times and not an “it” as do the Jehovah’s Witnesses who render it in their miss-translation (NWT) as an impersonal “it.” Instead of being the Third Person of the Trinity, they say it’s a force or power, like the wind. How insulting to God the Holy Spirit!

Their own Bible (NWT) is so full of translation errors that it’s hard to know where to begin, but one of their main errors is something that is contrary to Jesus’ teaching where He said that “the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you” (John 14:26). Again we see several “He’s,” clearly indicating that the Spirit is a Person and is called (by a proper noun) the Helper, Advocate, and the Spirit. This is obviously not a force but a Person.

The Wrong Savior

Jehovah Witnesses believe that only God the Father is God and that Jesus was formerly Michael the Archangel, but if you don’t have the right Jesus, you don’t have the right Savior. Jesus ties in our ability to receive eternal life with actually knowing Who Jesus and the Father are. It wasn’t just knowing about them (even the demons know), but really knowing them personally. Jesus said, “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent” (John 17:3). So our eternal life depends on knowing Who the One, True God is and knowing Who the One true Jesus is Whom the Father sent. One of the best and godliest men I know, and a true friend of mine in our church, is our church elder. I know a lot about him. The more I know about him and his life, the more I can really say if asked, do I know him, “Yes, I really know Jason…just a good man of God.” I know many details about him that others don’t know, so I can really say “I know him.” Now, ask this: do Jehovah’s Witnesses who claim to know God the Father, really know Jesus? Do they really know the One whom He sent (the Father)? The obvious answer is no, they don’t. If they have the wrong Jesus, they have the wrong Savior…or, no Savior at all. That’s why we must lovingly reprove them and correct them, but lovingly and gently. As the Apostle Peter tells us, in advance, to be “prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect” (1 Pet 3:15). We can’t convert them (Acts 16:14), but we can tell them the truth about Jesus. The real Jesus, that is.

Conclusion

I pray you have put your trust in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. If that has not happened yet, my friend, you are in real danger of hell fire. And I mean, in immediate danger. You’re one breath, one heartbeat…one accident away from eternity when it will be too late to repent. Today is the best day to believe (2 Cor 6:2) since tomorrow is no guarantee. If Jesus Christ came today, here is your fate (Matt 7:21-23). This is why I plead with you as you read this, repent today…and I mean right now. Put your trust in Jesus Christ. If you do not, you will face God’s judgment after death guaranteed (Heb 9:27) or at Jesus Christ’s appearance (Rev 20:12-15), which could happen at any moment.

Here is some related reading for you: What Do Jehovah Witnesses Believe?

Resource – Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version^® (ESV^®), Crossway Bibles. (2007). ESV: Study Bible: English standard version. Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Bibles. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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