From Tower To Truth Ministries, they show us a couple of ways to answer the Jehovah’s Witnesses and their booklet Should You Believe In The Trinity? In this dialogue, Chris is the Christian, John is the Jehovah’s Witness. Here is an excerpt from the full article:
Chris: In fact, I found [the booklet] to be full of so many interesting quotations that I decided to go down to the library to locate some of the source material. Maybe you can help me, John. I’d like to run a few things by you that I discovered concerning this magazine.
John: Go ahead.
Chris: On page 4 of the Trinity booklet, it says that “The Encyclopedia Americana notes that the doctrine of the Trinity is considered to be ‘beyond the grasp of human reason”.
John: And it really is, Chris. I mean, who can comprehend a three- headed god?
Chris: I’d like you to take a look at this photocopy of the actual page from where the Watchtower quoted volume 27 of The Encyclopedia Americana. I’d like you to read this quote in the context of the original article. It’s right here on page 116.
John: Okay. It says, “It is held that although the doctrine is beyond the grasp of human reason, it is, like many of the formulations of physical science, not contrary to reason, and may be apprehended (though it may not be comprehended) by the human mind”. (underline ours)
Chris: Did you see that, John? It said that the doctrine of the Trinity is “….not contrary to reason and may be apprehended….by the human mind”. John, after reading the full statement from the encyclopedia, has the Watchtower quoted this article in context?
John: Well, sure. The Watchtower did use the exact words right from the article.
Chris: Yes, but has the Watchtower left out words that change the author’s viewpoint?
John: Chris, there are a hundred quotes in this magazine that prove the Trinity is false. Why are you making a fuss over this one? Didn’t you look at any others?
Chris: As a matter of fact, I did. On page 6 of the Trinity booklet it says, “Jesuit Fortman states: ‘The New Testament writers. . . give us no formal or formulated doctrine of the Trinity, no explicit teaching that in one God there are three co-equal divine persons…”. Here is a photocopy of the introduction of The Triune God, 1972, where this quote was taken from. The Watchtower quotes four words from page 15; “The New Testament writers”. They then pick up the next sentence of the quote from page 16. But read some of the highlighted text that falls between the two quotes.
John: “They call Jesus the Son of God. Messiah. Lord. Savior, Word. Wisdom. They assign Him the divine functions of creation, salvation, judgment. Sometimes they call Him God explicitly. They do not speak as fully and clearly of the Holy Spirit as they do of the Son, but at times they coordinate Him with the Father and the Son and put Him on a level with them as far as divinity and personality are concerned. (underline ours)
See how tricky and selective the Watchtower Society is with their quotes? Do not be fooled by their tactics.
Christ Alone Wyoming 
But Paul and Peter didn’t believe in the Trinity.
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Polycarp,
I’d have to disagree. They believed there is only one God (Isaiah 43:10). They believed the Father is God (John 17:3). They believed Jesus is God (Titus 2:13, 2 Peter 1:1). They believed the Holy Spirit is God (Acts 5:3-4). While they may not have called the concept the Trinity (they didn’t speak English anyway), they certainly believed in the concept. All other alternatives to the Trinity that I’ve seen are easily shown to be in error.
Thanks,
Bill
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its really strange to me to be even looking up any thing about the Holy Spirit and the trinity..i know what i know what i know about HIM, the holy spirit, and He is real, as real as i am.
i am involed( biblically) with a really special lady, she is how ever a J.W…i love her with the love of Christ jesus, really i do..but as i go on into our meetings, which have lasted now 4 months or so…and find out more and more about her( as she does me) I have to wonder whats going on really!!!
She loves the Lord just like do, She calls on the name of Jesus christ, just like i do, and i am a born again christian..I can not see any differance there at all…yes she is or has.HEAD KNOWLEDGE..and i am envisous of that…and so is bright and sweet and loving and so open…My God, why do people call people and say this and that about each other..????
I am in shock to one extent..But on the other hand, looking at the Trinity…Who are we to understand the depth of this deep and close body of spirits…I am no-one….I would never call the pot black! because i do not know any one else’s heart…Only God..
If its true and I will find out, that my new J.W girl friend is in the dark about the Holy Spirit then it will be my duty as a christian to tell her…more I can not do and will not do….I say…let God be the judge of His creation and let us walk in the same path as jesus did..NO one was exempt , no-one was too good or too bad in jesus’s eyes, we should take a leaf out of His book…
How ever after all that..i do love you with the love of Christ…may the Holy Spirit fill your days up with happiness and rest, peace of mind and joy joy joy…Amen….Dawn.xx.
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Dawn,
Not only is your JW friend “in the dark” about the Holy Spirit, she is also “in the dark” about who Jesus is. If she is a true JW, then she believes that Jesus was a created being, that He is not in fact God, and that He is nothing more than a glorified angel. She is not calling upon the same Jesus as a true born-again Christian.
It doesn’t matter how sincere, how devoted, how emotional she gets in calling upon her Christ–her Christ is a false Christ, one in whom there is no salvation.
I would urge you to click on the links on the right that deal with Jehovah’s Witnesses to learn more about them.
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