How do we respond to Jehovah's Witnesses who claim that Jesus could not be God because God cannot die?
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Asked October 29 2020
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Donald Short
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Danny Hickman
The best way to respond to a heretic, whether he be a Jehovah's Witness or otherwise, is to tell him to read the scriptures, and to pray for an understanding. There's no other proven formula that is known to be effective in teaching a heretic the error in his beliefs about the things of God.
If you pour water on a mud puddle the puddle gets bigger and muddier. Neither does adding more dirt make things better.
Contrary to what many people might believe, the Watchtower Society isn't in business to get people to discontinue celebrating Christmas, birthdays, Mothers Day and Thanksgiving. Its purpose is to dishonor Jesus. It is to convince the world that Jesus isn't the way to a relationship with the Father God. They are just like every other organization that hides behind a plethora of weak distortions of the Word of God. The Word is the best way to defend the Word.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He became flesh and we saw His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1).
"All things were made through Him, and nothing was made without Him" (vs 3).
"He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world didn't recognize Him." (vs 10)
"I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God." (the One on whom John saw the Spirit descend upon) (vss 33, 34).
What more needs to be said?
Besides all this, the Witness within us (baptism) is proof of who Jesus is.
Danny Hickman
John was candid; he didn't claim to recognize Jesus because he had a keener eye for spiritual matters than others might have had. His claim is that he had been given instructions on how he'd know who he was to introduce as the only begotten Son of the living God.
He admits: "I didn't know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.' And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God." (John 1:33, 34)
Which of the prophets were ever reputed to have baptized anyone with the Holy Spirit? None! Not one of them! John says it outright. He says, 'I [can only] baptize with water.' (John 1:26)
Jesus is one of a kind. He's the only begotten of the Father. The Son of God.
Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son, doesn't have the Father: he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also (1 John 2:22, 23).
That scripture doesn't say "THE" antichrist, as if it's referring to a person. It's referring to a spirit that inhabits souls. Antichrist is a spirit; unbelief is a spirit; doubt is a spirit.
What about truth? There is a Spirit of Truth whom the world can't receive, because the world doesn't see or know Him; but [we] know Him, because He lives with [us] and in [us]. (John 14:17)
The antichrist is the "world." The world doesn't know the Father nor the Son.