To Jehovah Witnesses was Jesus a created being or not?

Answer 1

Yes, since He is not equal with the Father to them and so not God as Christians believe and as the Bible clearly teaches, when read in its context. Since He is not equal with the Father, He was therefore created by the Father -who they name Jehovah.And even though Christians also acknowledge this name JW's are distinctive in the emphasis they place on this particular divine name from which they take their own name. They, in taking this as the one and only name for God specifically exclude the naming of Jesus as God, despite what the Bible teaches.

ANSWER FROM A JWLet's go to the Bible.

Let's begin at Colossians 1:15 which says concerning Jesus Christ: "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:"(King James Version) That scripture says that he is the 'image of God...the firstborn.' Nowhere in the Bible is the term "firstborn" applied to the Father or the holy spirit, but only to Jesus. According to the meaning of the term "firstborn," Jesus is the eldest in GOD's family of sons, which includes the angelic and earthly. That scripture also says he is the "image of God." To be the "image" of something is to be in the likeness of. Jesus was the first of all of God's creation, created in the perfect image of his Father.

Jesus then became the "master worker," being used in all of Jehovah's further creative works. At Proverbs 8:30, we see Jesus being called a 'craftsman at God's side'(New International Version), "beside HIM, as a master workman"(New American Standard Bible), "beside HIM as a master and director of the work" (The Amplified Bible), "beside him, like a master workman" (English Standard Version), "right beside the LORD, helping him plan and build." (Contemporary English Version). That is why Colossians 1:16 goes on to say: "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him."(King James Version)

Because of what the scriptures indicate, Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus was, as the Bible says, the "firstborn" of creation, the first of all of Jehovah's creative works. Jesus was, not only the first created, but he was the only one created directly, exclusively by Jehovah. All other things were created using Jesus as the "master workman." Therefore, Jesus is also rightly referred to by the scriptures as "only-begotten son" of GOD. (John 3:16-King James Version)

Additional Answer: Jehovah created Jesus before he created the earth and so Jesus was able to aid Jehovah in whatever he needed done.

ANSWER FROM THE BIBLEGod, Jehovah, is the Creator, and there is no Creator apart from God. Jesus is therefore included in (Trinity) Jehovah. There are key verses which indicate this very clearly. Deu 32:18states that God has formed us. This is the issue behind this teaching, the JWs refuse to accept Jesus as True and Very God, therefore they make Him into an archangel instead. The Jehovah's Witnesses have translated their own Bible (New World Translation) which corrupts the original Greek and Hebrew text to make the Bible fit their doctrines, but even so, I will quote these verses out of their own Bible which proves Jehova is the only Creator.

Isa 40:28 says, "Have you not come to know or have you not heard? Jehovah, the Creator of the extremities of the earth, is a God to time indefinite." Isa 42:5-6"This is what the [true] God, Jehovah, has said, the Creator of the heavens and the Grand One stretching them out; the One laying out the earth and its produce, the One giving breath to the people on it, and spirit to those walking in it: I myself, Jehovah..." (NWT)

Isa 45:11-12 "This is what Jehovah has said, the Holy One of Israel and the Former of him... I myself have made the earth and have created even man upon it. I my own hands have stretched out the heavens, and all the army of them I have commanded." (NWT)

Isa 45:18 "For this is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the [true] God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited: "I am Jehovah, and there is no one else." (NWT) Here we see that simply put, the "true God" Jehovah (according to the JWs) is the Creator of the Heavens and the Maker of the earth. This according to Col 1:15 is Jesus.

Isa 44:24 This is what Jehovah has said, your Repurchaser and the Former of you from the belly: "I, Jehovah, am doing everything, stretching out the heavens by myself, laying out the earth. Who was with me? (NWT)

This last verse clearly reveals even from the JWs own Bible that God was acting alone (just Jehovah and nobody else) when He created the heavens and the earth. If Jesus is not fully God (the same thing as Jehovah), then it would be a lie to say "God created the heavens and the earth". The Bible would have to say, "an angel created the heavens and the earth." See also: Gen 1:1 "God created the heavens and the earth"; Jer 51:19 "he is the former of everything... Jehovah of armies is his name". The Jehovah's Witnesses corrupt (without any Greek manuscripts to support their corrupted and warrantless changes) the text of Col. 1, but even so, their own Bible shows elsewhere the same truths they mangle in Col. 1:15ffPastor David Cox

Iglesia Bautista Fundamental

Mexico City, D.F. Mexico