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How do Jehovah's Witnesses (what they believe) or their Bibles differ from the Christian faith and our Bibles?

I am offering an answer based on this query - I am not promoting belief in the subject, just giving factual answers:

JW's Beliefs:

1: Beliefs & Theology The Trinity: Traditional Christianity believes in one God existing in three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). Jehovah's Witnesses reject this concept, believing that only Jehovah is the Almighty God.

2: Jesus Christ: In Christianity, Jesus is fully God and the co-eternal Son. Jehovah's Witnesses believe Jesus is the Son of God, but is a created being and separate from God.[ Colossians 1: 18 NWT: "18 and he is the head of the body, the congregation. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might become the one who is first in all things" They identify Jesus with the Archangel Michael. Jude 9 NWT. "But when Miʹcha·el the archangel had a difference with the Devil and was disputing about Moses' body, he did not dare to bring a judgment against him in abusive terms, but said: "May Jehovah rebuke you."

3: The Holy Spirit: Christians regard the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Trinity. Jehovah's Witnesses view the Holy Spirit not as a person, but as God's active, invisible force or power.

4: Afterlife & Salvation: Traditional Christians believe in the immortality of the soul, with believers going to heaven and the lost to eternal damnation. Witnesses do not believe in an eternal, burning hell. They believe that only 144,000 "anointed" individuals will go to heaven to rule with Christ, while the rest of the faithful will live forever on a paradise earth.

Differences in the Bible: The New World Translation (NWT): 

1: Jehovah's Witnesses use their own translation, the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, rather than traditional versions like the King James, NIV, or ESV. Mainstream scholars argue that the NWT alters certain passages to fit their specific theological views

2: The Name "Jehovah": Their Bible incorporates the name "Jehovah" in the New Testament over 200 times, where traditional Christian Bibles use the title "Lord."

3: The Word for Cross: In the NWT, the cross upon which Jesus died is translated literally as a "torture stake" or a single upright beam of wood. [as does several other Bible Translations]

4: The Divinity of Jesus: The NWT translates passages that affirm Jesus's deity differently. For example, John 1:1 in traditional Bibles reads, "the Word was God," whereas the NWT renders it, "the Word was a god."

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