Christians Are
Possessors of Faith
Christians know the Lord Jesus as
the Living Yahweh in human flesh: Jesus
Christ is Yahweh in human flesh (John 1:14). This means Jesus is divine, but not solely
divine; He has a human nature; two natures in all; Jesus is one person, the
Incarnate Savior. We know and love Him
because He first knew and loved us. Jesus
Christ is not simply an exalted angelic creature but rather He is the LORD Almighty (the Second Person of
the Holy Trinity). There are Jehovah’s
Witnesses who seem to respond with
their trained answers when evangelism takes place between a Christian and a
Jehovah’s Witness. Christian apologetics
is not merely a spiritually vain and
groundless trained response. His
God-ordained elect are used as a means by God to accomplish His beloved will in
the proclamation of His divine truth. We
must give scripturally founded answers to Jehovah’s Witnesses. Those that are hostile to the Reformed faith
must be countered with biblical answers derived from Holy Writ to present God’s
truth. We must genuinely put forth a
defense of our faith. Christians are possessors and professors of the notable faith of Christ. Christians are not
merely professors of faith. We must
be possessors of true faith in Christ in order to be professors of faith in Christ to present the gospel of pure grace
to a lost group: the Watchtower Organization (hereafter WTO).
We are all eternally indebted to
God the Holy Spirit who changed our hearts of stone into hearts of flesh. Jehovah’s Witnesses have not experienced
God’s changing power in regeneration.
God does not change a sinner’s heart to believe the wrong Jesus, in
fact, another Jesus, wholly devoid of the Jesus of Holy Writ. If people are not possessors of faith from the sole work of the Triune God in soteriology,
plainly revealed in the divine Scriptures, they have no credible and true basis
to authentically proclaim God’s divine truth from the Author of supernatural truth;
the Sinless and Blessed Spirit of truth.
Our changed heart of possessing true and lasting faith from the enabling
work of the Holy Spirit in monergistic regeneration (that is, being born from
above) enables us to make a true profession of faith. Christians have an assured hope in accordance
with the Father’s will, purchased by His Son at Calvary, and enabled by the Holy
Ghost. We speak from our hearts of hope;
the heart of Christ possessed by God’s Spirit under Christ’s control in
conjunction with our Heavenly Father’s will.
If we remain silent we contribute
to the problem of the impurity of doctrine of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The doctrines of Jehovah’s Witnesses are
polluted because their doctrines are scripturally unsupported, doctrinally
false, and they themselves are spiritually devoid of the Father’s Spirit. Their doctrine does not have a scriptural or
spiritual substance to it. It is simply empty;
devoid of any saving truth. This is why
an empty message produces empty souls; devoid of the spotless Spirit of truth. Silence
allows for the continual manifestation of foul doctrine and leaves room for
further spiritual crimes of impure doctrine against people and has devastating
and eternal ramifications whether we acknowledge it or not. Silence in the face of polluted doctrine, in
this case when dealing with WTO, is the very antithesis of Christ and His
beloved church.
People without the Spirit of God
in them have no business engaged in any kind of Christian ministry. It is impossible to have a God-honoring and
God-glorifying ministry without the Holy Spirit (of which the WTO rejects and
denies, for they deny the true and actual divinity and personality of the Holy
Spirit, thereby denying God Himself and disqualifies their unprofitable
man-centered ministry). The WTO has the appearance of ministry but does not actually have a God-honoring ministry. We know it has no God-exalting truth regarding
the nature of salvation and who Christ is, because of what they truly
teach. Their ministry has no Scriptural
basis. It exists in spreading wild fire
heresy throughout our world. Throughout
this book it will be conclusively demonstrated and responsibly documented to
truthfully present the ultimate and final conclusion of Sacred Scripture. Their false theology requires answers. We are called as Christian spiritual warriors
to answer with gentleness and reverence.
We are to always remain in a state of humility within our blessed
sanctification. We must trust God to transform
their ways. Reverent awe of our Lord is
consistent with the Christian life. We
are to have a single-minded way of Christ to live in the liberty of Christ
possessing the outworking fruits of God’s divine and personal Holy Spirit.
The truthful theology of biblical
Christianity derived from Holy Writ is essential for our knowledge in
presenting God’s truth. When we hear
what non-believers say we can give a suitable response always adhering to Scripture. We are to speak in our Lord’s presence. Our Triune Lord is everywhere and knows all
things. When we speak anything about God
it is to be in a state of assuredly knowing that God is present, listening to
what we say about Him. If we speak
falsely about our Lord, it is a spiritual offense against Him. We must always be knowledgeable and prepared to
lovingly present God’s truth to a fallen world.
We are to be responsible in what we say about God. He has given us our minds to serve, exalt,
honor, glorify and worship Him alone.
We are commanded, as opposed to
an invitation, to believe Jesus Christ and to love one another. Jesus Himself is the Incarnate One Who came
to be the divine answer to polluted, totally depraved, and spiritually insane
people who cannot keep God’s commandments.
What does it mean to be a true
Christian? Or who makes a true
Christian? It is, indeed, God alone who
makes a true Christian, not man. It is
wholly God Who makes a Christian. Man-centered
theology would have us believe, man, under the disguise of Christianity makes a Christian.
Man has elevated himself through his perverse spiritual irrationality in
man-centered theology in which case he has manufactured God in his own image, a
God made with human hands, which is in fact, no God at all in reality, and it
is, indeed, a stench in the nostrils of God.
Thus all the religions of this world and others who falsely misrepresent
God’s divine truth, either in their worldly foolishness, or their false
understandings, as Jehovah’s Witnesses have done and continue to do, fail at
every point where the Reformed faith succeeds. Rather then being a man-centered religion of
this world, the Reformed faith rightly
and correctly exalts, honors,
glorifies and magnifies God Himself, as the sole Author of salvation, which is
from Scripture, of Scripture and because of Scripture alone. It is God-centered theology alone that is
orthodox and true. It is not simply a
theoretical assumption but rather it is true in real life (whether we
acknowledge it or not, it is true, in the lives of His elect people because
only the elect respond); the grace of God alone is experienced.
Although the WTO claims to adhere
to the verbal inspiration of holy Scripture, it denies it in its practice to
the adherence of Russell and Rutherford.
The WTO wrongly elevates its organization over Scripture. The doctrine of the infallibility of the
Bible is muddled by the gross and fallacious ways of their subjective
hermeneutic. Their hermeneutic provides
an avenue for false presumptuous renderings of the text of Scripture itself and
promotes a spiritually unhealthy imagination regarding doctrine which
negatively affects their members in believing polluted doctrine. Believing orthodox doctrine is not evidence
of being saved, being born again is.
Someone can believe orthodox doctrine and not be saved. Although this is true, the belief and
adherence to unorthodox doctrine shows they are surely not saved.
I agree with those who say that
Jehovah’s Witnesses is wholly improper for followers of the Watchtower because
in reality these pretenders are followers of Russell and Rutherford. The followers of the Watchtower are not true Jehovah’s Witnesses but rather they
are in essence Jehovah’s false Witnesses. Although I use the terminology of “Jehovah’s
Witnesses” I do not mean that they are actually true Christians. Rather I
use this terminology merely to identify them.
I agree that the proper name for them is Russellites not Jehovah’s Christian Witnesses.
What Makes a
Christian?
From God’s true irresistible grace (that is, sovereign
monergistic regeneration) by God the Holy Spirit we express through our changed
will, assured faith alone. The sole
ground for justification is the Incarnate Christ, having the imputed unified
righteousness of the divine Lamb of God (in terms of the passive and active
obedience of Christ) accounted to His elect only, and having our sins imputed
to the matchless Incarnate divine Substitute, Jesus Christ. The sin of God’s preordained elect only was
transferred, given, accounted and imputed to the eternal Son of God, wholly
sufficient, without any insufficiency; wholly unlimited in the benefits of the
atonement of Jesus Christ for and to His beloved elect only. The atonement of Christ was done by Christ
alone for the elect alone, and it is
applied by God the Holy Ghost (from the Father through His Son) to the elect alone. Therefore, Christ is the perfect Incarnate
Redeemer.
The atonement of Christ did not
make Him a sinner when He willingly died at Calvary (nor was He a sinner at anytime
in His life; He did not freely die to atone for any sin of Himself, but rather,
He was and is without sin. He died for
the sin of His people, and He became sin so His people may become the
righteousness of God in Him. He died to
God the Father; that is, He offered of Himself, the perfect ransom (a sweet fragrance unto God the Father), and He
remains the impeccable, eternal, and unchanging Son of Man, Christ Jesus, the Victor). He wholly and freely bore the totality of the
sins of His people alone in their place in complete fullness. The just dreadful wrath of our Heavenly
Father was satisfied through, by and because of His Beloved Son. The sins of
God’s people were expiated, that is, removed from all them as far as the east is from the west, and Christ
appeased the wrath of God. God the
Father has accepted what the God-man,
the selfless, all-sufficient, spotless, sinner-Seeker, has done for His
people. The sufficient work of the
God-man was, indeed, and still is, wholly and completely well-pleasing to His
Beloved Father. What Christ Himself
accomplished on the cross at Calvary, was not in opposition to His Beloved
Father’s will but was in complete and total harmony with it and perfect
cooperation to it.
The cross of the Incarnate Lamb
did not merely potentially save God’s
people but actually saved His people.
The alien righteousness of Christ alone avails before God the Father
Himself. There is no division or
separation between the Father and the Son.
Christ Himself, the God-man, paid for our eternal sin debt which we
could never pay. God makes a heavenly
and true forensic declaration in their justification of His own, once and for
all, which is not a process. His
people’s salvation is dependent upon the Triune Lord Himself not man; indeed,
it is God-dependent, that is, all by, from and because of God’s sheer and pure
sovereign grace alone. It is of Christ
alone, because of Christ alone, and from Christ alone, wholly in behalf of totally
depraved sinners. When God bestows upon
His people, graciousness, it is not from obligation but by His blessed
voluntary work of His holy kindness and tender abundant mercies. It is wholly
God-glorifying and God-magnifying, which is all divinely predestinated and
foreordained, before the world began for His blessed elect only. The elect of the Lamb will preserve because
of the preservation of God Himself. Those
who are truly regenerate will truly preserve unto the very end. God safely keeps His chosen from truly
falling away. His sovereign work alone is
irrevocable and unchangeable. Indeed, it
cannot be undone. This is what a
Christian is, and it is entirely foreign to the WTO.
Exposing Falsehoods
We are called to love devoid of any
hypocrisy, rightly hate evil, and truly cling tenaciously to good (Romans 12:9)
based on the final, sufficient and sole infallible authority, the Holy
Scriptures (Second Timothy 3:14-17) and we are to responsibly search them (see Acts
17:11).
Jehovah’s
Witness literature declares that exposing falsehoods is not persecution:
Can
there be false religion? It is not a form of religious persecution for anyone
to say and to show that another religion is false. It is not
religious persecution for an informed person to expose publicly a certain
religion as being false, thus allowing persons to see the difference between
false religion and true religion. But in order to make the exposure and show
the wrong religions to be false, the true worshiper will have to use an
authoritative means of judgment, a rule of measurement that cannot be proved faulty.
To make a public exposure of false religion is certainly of more value than
exposing a news report as being untrue; it is a public service instead of a
religious persecution and it has to do with the eternal life and happiness of
the public. Still it leaves the public free to choose. (Watchtower, November 15, 1963, p. 688).
It is surely not the approach of this author to persecute
Jehovah’s Witnesses in anyway whatsoever.
My approach is to provide biblical answers, and defend divine truth
against false doctrine. The doctrines of
Scripture should come from Scripture alone not from tradition, ignorance,
subjectivism or the authority of an errant and human organization over Holy
Writ.
The WTO proclaims,
believing in one true religion is not egotistical:
Why should anyone practice a religion unless he is
convinced that it is true and right? It is not egotistical for a worshiper to
say and believe that his is the only true religion. However, he ought to be
able to prove that his is the only one that is correct and that results in
eternal blessings. Otherwise, his faith in his religion is foundationless and
is mere credulity. (Watchtower, November 15, 1963,
p.688-689).
Although it is true that there is one true religion,
it is not true that this true religion is the WTO. All religions allege different beliefs which
contradict each other. All of them
cannot be true. We know there is one
truth because of what Scripture states, and what God has presented in His Word
as truth. It is true that it is not egotistical
to believe one true way, unless it is a way that is not the way of God. If a religion claims to be the right way, and
their claim is from a merely human invention of truth and not from God, it is,
then egotistical. It is arrogant to say
that “this is the true way” when it is from man and not from God. But to claim to be the true way is right if
it is from God alone, because God is the Author of Truth not man. Therefore I believe the WTO is egotistical in
claiming it is the true religion because it rejects, denies and obstructs God’s
divine Word and His glorious truth.
This demonstrates that publicly revealing
falsehoods about a certain religion is not persecution and believing concerning
one true way is not necessarily wrong only if the one true way can be proven to
be that. It is not sufficient for
Jehovah’s Witnesses to cry persecution when Reformed apologetists provide a
meaningful exegesis of Scripture and, therefore, providing substantive biblically
based answers devoid of the traditions of men and doctrines of demons. For it is not persecution but rather a
Christian apologetic based from Holy Scripture.
Such behavior is not biblically permissible to cry persecution when
answers are rightly supplied but the only reaction of this sort is a
suppression of God’s divine truth and outright rebellion against the Holy and
Blessed Trinity in the adherence to false religion. The exclusivity of Christ in the Christian
faith cannot be true if it has its sole source from an errant organization. The source of believing the exclusivity of
Christ is the sole matchless written Word (see Acts 4:12).
Someone
cannot argue from a standpoint of binding on the conscience unless it is God
Himself in His sole infallible word not a fallible and errant organization. The unwavering written Word of God actually changes lives in truth and in
reality (regeneration occurs by God
the Spirit under the God-man’s control from the will of God the Father) not
deceptive doctrine from a Unitarian perversion of the nature of God from a
flawed organization.
The
purpose of honestly revealing documented falsehoods concerning Jehovah’s Witness
religion is to demonstrate and make known the misleading and gross distortions
of the WTO and to rightly establish the impurity of their doctrine and defend
and maintain the purity of doctrine of the Reformed faith grounded firmly in Holy
Writ. Thus it is essential to be discerning in an
ever undiscerning world.
