Notes on a lecture about Jehovah's Witnesses from James White.
Jehovah Witness Theology:
God created only the archangel Michael directly. Through Michael God created everything else.
Their theology is pretty standardized, completely controlled by the Watchtower.
You don't "have" a soul, you are a soul. You cease to exist when you die.
They don't believe in the physical resurrection of Jesus.
Michael "became" Jesus, when Jesus died, he "became" Michael again.
They are unitarian.
Predicted armageddons in 1914, 1915, 1918, 1925, 1943, 1975. They lost a million people after the 1975 false prophecy.
They have 3 "classes" of people instead of 2, justified and unjustified, where most JWs are in the second class.
The New World Translation, their bible, was translated by a committee that had cumulatively 2 years of classical greek education. It is a terrible translation that misrepresents what the greek says in any passage touching their theological distinctives.
The way to reach them regarding the deity of Christ is to agree that their is one God, "Jehovah" (aka Yahweh), but to show that scripture identifies Jesus as Jehovah. Psalm 102:25-27 is clearly about Jehovah God, the only unchangeable one, Hebrews 1:8 "but of the Son"...1:10, "And, You, Lord..." quotes Psalm 102:25-27 which can only be about Jehovah God, and applies to the Son. Another one is John 12:41, "Isaiah saw Jesus' glory", the prior quote from Isaiah is from Isaiah 6, where Isaiah has a vision of Jehovah God.
