Why I am Not a Jehovah's Witness

John 1:1-3
John 1:18
Colossians 1:15-17




The “Jehovah’s Witnesses” or the Watchtower Tract Society whose headquarters are located in Brooklyn New York. As an Evangelical Christian ministry dedicated to the teachings of the Bible and historic Christianity, we believe that there are innumerable doctrinal errors taught by the Jehovah’s Witnesses that are entirely incompatible with true Christianity.

While we sincerely love all our Jehovah’s Witnesses friends, we completely reject in every detail the message communicated by the Jehovah’s Witnesses outright and in total. We believe the Jehovah’s Witnesses are completely unbiblical and are deceiving millions of people worldwide and greatly urge everyone to avoid the teachings and practices of the Jehovah’s Witnesses at all costs.

The Brooklyn New York based ecclesiastical organization now known as the “Jehovah’s Witnesses” was founded by a native of Allegheny Pennsylvania named Charles Taze Russell.

Charles Taze Russell taught many heretical things concerning the Deity of Christ, the Trinity and how to obtain eternal life. The present day “Jehovah’s Witnesses” teach many heretical things as well. The following are some of the most serious false teachings of the Jehovah’s Witnesses that should everyone to avoid joining this cult as all costs.

1. The Jehovah’s Witnesses deny the Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity.

2. The Jehovah’s Witnesses deny the Biblical Doctrine of the Deity of Christ.

3. The Jehovah’s Witnesses deny the Deity and personhood of the Holy Spirit.

4. The Jehovah’s Witnesses deny the eternal preexistence of Jesus Christ.

5. The Jehovah’s Witnesses deny that justification is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone. The Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that salvation is earned by works.

6. The Jehovah’s Witnesses teach the heretical doctrine that Jesus Christ did not rise again from the dead in the same physical body He was crucified in, rather they teach that Jesus Christ rose again as a glorified “spirit creature”.


7. The Jehovah’s Witnesses teach the heretical doctrine of annihilationism, that non-Jehovah’s Witnesses will simply cease to exist after judgement and will not spend eternity in conscious eternal torment in the Lake of Fire, despite what Revelation 20:1-15 clearly teaches.

8. The Jehovah’s Witnesses have their own spurious, doctrinally biased and mistranslated version of the Bible called the New World Translation, that wrongly and systematically translates many key verses on the Deity of Christ and the Trinity (Please see their rendering of John 1:1 and Colossians 1:16).


However, despite the false teachings of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Bible clearly and unambiguously teaches that Jesus Christ is God and that the Doctrine of the Trinity is the truth (Please read: Isaiah 9:6-7, Matthew 1:23, 28:19-20, John 1:1-14, 1:18, 5:23, 8:58, 14:1-10, 20:28, Acts 5:1-8, 20:28, Romans 9:5, 2 Corinthians 13:14, Philippians 2:1-11,Colossians 1:15-17, 2:8-9, Titus 2:13, Hebrews 1:1-8, 2 Peter 1:1, 1 John 5:20, Revelation 1:8, 17-18 and 22:13).


The Bible clearly teaches that the Holy Spirit is both God and is a person despite the false teachings of the Jehovah’s Witnesses on this matter (Please Read: Matthew 28:19-20, John 14:26, 15:26, 16:13, Acts 5:1-4, Acts 13:2-4, 20:23, 20:28. 1 Corinthians 12:11 and Hebrews 9:14).

Contrary to what the Jehovah’s Witnesses teach regarding salvation, the Bible clearly teaches that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone based on the authority of the Word of God alone (Please see: Romans 3:20, Galatians 2:16, Ephesians 2:8-10 and Titus 3:5-6).

Contrary to the heretical doctrines of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Bible clearly teaches that Jesus Christ had an eternal pre-existence in eternity past: (Please see: Isaiah 9:6-7, Micah 5:2, John 1:1-3, John 17:5, Colossians 1:15-18 and Hebrews 1:1-8).

Despite what the Jehovah’s Witnesses teach regarding the resurrected body of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Bible clearly refutes the Jehovah’s Witnesses view that Christ rose again only as a “glorified spirit creature.” The Bible, instead teaches that Jesus Christ rose again from the dead in the same body in which He was crucified and that Jesus’ body was made of actual physical flesh and bones (Please read; Luke 24:40-44, John 20:19-31, and 21:13).


Despite what the Jehovah’s Witnesses teach regarding annihilationism, that the wicked will not experience a conscious and tormented eternal existence in the flaming agonies of the lake of fire, the Bible teaches the contrary and that there will be eternal torment for the non-Christian in everlasting fire. (Please read; Luke 16:23, 2 Thessalonians 1:9, Matthew 3:12, 5:29,8:12, 10:28, 13:42, 50, 25:41-46, Isaiah 33:14, 66:24, Daniel 7:11, Revelation 14:10 and Revelation 20:15).

Based on these false teachings of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, we must strongly encourage everyone to avoid the doctrines and practices of this non-Christian cult at all costs.

We would also like to encourage all non-Christians, that might be reading this, to acknowledge that they have broken God’s holy commandments, to repent of their sins and come to faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus died on the cross and rose again from the dead to give eternal life to all that sincerely repent of their sins and place their faith in Him (Luke 13:1-5, John 3:16, 3:36, 14:6, Acts 2:38, Acts 16:31, Acts 17:30, Romans 3:10-12, 20-23, Romans 5:8, Romans 6:23, Romans 10:9-10 and 1 Corinthians 15:1-10).

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Evangelical Books on Jehovah’s Witnesses

Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Errors Exposed by William J. Schnell
Thirty Years a Watchtower Slave by William J. Schnell
Reasoning from the Scriptures with the Jehovah's Witnesses by Ron Rhodes
Why You Should Believe in the Trinity by Robert Bowman Jr.
How to Answer a Jehovah’s Witness by Robert Morey
The Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Martin





Evangelical Ministries Reaching Jehovah’s Witnesses

Probe Ministries: http://www.probe.org/content/view/723/65/
Alpha and Omega Ministries: http://www.aomin.org/
The Christian Research Institute: http://equip.org/
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry: http://www.carm.org/