So many Jehovah’s Witnesses are so well versed in defending their beliefs on hell, works salvation, and the differences between Jesus and God that you are essentially wasting time arguing with them about these matters. When you argue about these things, they aren’t going to listen to you. They are going to be thinking about which verses they can use to refute what you are saying.

To us, the verses concerning the deity of Christ are absolutely clear. In Is 43:11, for instance, God said, "I, even I, am the LORD: and beside me there is no saviour." That capitalized LORD is the word translated "Jehovah" in the Jehovah’s Witnesses New World Translation. So, in this verse, Jehovah said that he is the only saviour and there is none else.

Yet, when you ask a Jehovah’s Witness if Jesus Christ is the Savior, they will answer, "Yes." Truthfully, the only way that could be possible is for Jesus Christ to be the same God as Jehovah. But, of course they don’t believe that, even though Titus 2:13 says, "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." They can’t both be the Savior unless they are both the same God.

In Zech 12:8-10, the Bible says that "they shall look upon me whom they have pierced." This is plainly a reference to Jesus Christ. However, the antecedent to "me" is the "I" of verse 9 who is the "LORD" in verse 8. Again we see that the Bible declares that God Almighty Jehovah and Jesus Christ are the same God. A Bible believer doesn’t have any problem seeing that at all.

Nevertheless, Jehovah’s Witnesses are not Bible believers. They are Bible "Users." They use their version of the Bible to support their beliefs, which are primarily communicated to them through Watchtower publications. So, to try to argue these verses and others like them is often fruitless, though you may still want to try.

Recently, a friend of mine led a Jehovah’s Witness to the Lord by simply loving him and preaching the gospel to him (1 Cor 1:18-21). They were both incarcerated. The Christian simply believed that God could save this fellow if he would just listen to the words of God (Ps 19:7, "the law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul"). After a couple of months, the Jehovah’s Witness got saved and came to tell his friend, "I thank God that you were found guilty. If you had not been incarcerated, surely I would have died and gone to hell."

I led a Jehovah’s Witness to the Lord at her sister’s house. It was an amazing conversion. This lady had studied with the Jehovah’s Witnesses for years. When we had the opportunity to sit down together to talk about the Lord, I sat next to her on the sofa with an open Bible on the coffee table between us. I turned to a passage and asked her to read it.

After reading the verse aloud, I asked her to explain what it "said." Rather than try to defend or attack any position by her explanation, she simply told me what the verse said.

Amazingly, she did that with every verse we looked at. And after an hour and a half of going through verses on the gospel, she could "see" that her condition without Christ was hopeless. So I asked her what she wanted to do about it and she said, "I want to get saved; that’s what I want to do about it!" So, we bowed our heads and she trusted Jesus Christ as her Savior, on her own.

After we prayed, we visited about eternal security and she asked to be excused. She rose from the sofa and went straight over to her sister to tell her that she had just gotten saved (evidence). Later that day, she and her sister called me to express her happiness and to ask me to baptize this new child of God. We did it right by the book. Three months later that new saint died and went straight to be with Jesus. Glory to God!

Hope this helps,

Pastor Welder