Are Jehovah's Witnesses true Christians according to Islam?

Question

Jehovah's Witnesses use the bible as authority. They specifically reject the trinity and say Jesus wasn't a god because the bible never said he was a god. So they only worship god with no partners.

But they don't believe in an eternal soul.

Are they among the Christians that go to heaven for being people of the book without committing shirk?

Answer 1

Having known and understood that teachings of previous prophets were corrupted by humans, and also knowing that final reveleation has arrived from God through His last messenger Mohammad (pbuh), the only pure and correct way to reach to God is through Islam.

The teachings of the Church contradict the teachings of Jesus (pbuh) and that is the cause of the confusion.

If a sincere christian who wants to follow Jesus (peace be upon him), asks priests about trinity, the answer that he gets is "It is a Mystery, not explained by Jesus (pbuh) clearly", at that time again those forget that Jesus (pbuh) said,

"I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where the Jews always meet, and in secret I have said nothing" (John 18:20 (NKJ)).

If trinity is confusing enough to be called a mystery, it cannot be from God. Because:

"God is not a God of confusion."—1 Corinthians 14:33, Revised Standard Version (RS).

There was no mystery in the message of Jesus (pbuh), nothing secret. Will you accept the priests' so called "mystery of trinity" and forget clear commandments of Jesus (pbuh)?

Jesus (pbuh) clearly said:

A) Mark 12:29: "the Lord our God, the lord is One".

B) Metthew: 26:39: "He went a little farther and fell on His face and prayed" (Following Jesus (pbuh) way is following what he did). Jesus (pbuh) prayed to one God

C) Matthew 4:10 "You shall worship the Lord, your God, and him only you shall serve"

D) John 5:19: "Most truly I say to you, the son cannot do a single thing of his own initiative but only what he beholds the father doing."

E) Matthew 19:17. "And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments."

F) John 7:16  Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me

G) Revelation 22:9 (King James Version):  "Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God."

The trinity is a doctrine from about the year 325 AD, It has its roots in polytheism, It is not in the bible unless you really, really stretch it to fit.

Jesus didn't have to hide the concept of trinity if it were the basis of salvation. He otherwise would have said very clearly that God is one in three, and I am God, worship me. Try to find these words in Bible and you can't.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia - 1967, VOL. XIV, PAGE 299:

The formulation "one God in three Persons" was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, PRIOR TO THE END OF THE 4TH CENTURY. But it is precisely this formulation that first claimed to title "The Trinitarian Dogma. AMONG THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS, THERE HAD BEEN NOTHING EVEN REMOTELY APPROACHING SUCH A MENTALITY OR PERSPECTIVE.

You should not accept the word “son” literally . Word "son" was used in bible for general human beings and other prophets also. "we all are the children of father in heavens" indicates that word "son" was used in different meaning of love and care.

Mathew: 5:9. "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of God.”

Jesus , Moses, Mohammad (peace be upon them), they all worshiped the same God, the God of Ibrahim (pbuh). All prophets taught "surrendering one's will to God" that is the meaning of word "Islam".

JAMES 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

There was just not one holy book sent by God on earth through His messengers. The last testiment "Quran" had to be there  from the same source, with many similarities, but correcting mistakes in earlier ones made by humans.

Muslims love Jesus (pbuh), they believe in his miraculous birth with the will of God without a father or sexual act (the way Adam was born without a mother and father), , they believe in miracles that Jesus (pbuh) performed with permission of God, muslims faith demands them to believe Jesus (pbuh) was a great prophet of God and belief in the original message of Jesus (pbuh) the massaya.

Qur’an, revealed to the Prophet Muhammed (an illiterate person, who didn't know how to read or write) some 600 years after Jesus (pbuh) corrects the errors that crept (knowingly or unknowingly) into the message that Jesus (pbuh) brought. This book was not preserved on paper or in one church but in hearts of thousands of muslims who memorised Quran word by word the way it was revealved and recited it daily 5 times in prayers. After Mohammad (pbuh), there was not even one dispute about a word of Quran in compiling it, that's how what you see today is only one original Quran in arabic with exact words in each one of them. Quran should prove to be a very valuable asset to both Muslims and Christians.

Answer 2

  Don't know for sure.  Allah subhana wata'ala knows that for sure.  They do believe that there is only one Creator, as Muslims do.  

  They refrain from the celebrations most Christians I know celebrate (Christmas, birthdays for example) like most Muslims I know.

  They do take their study of the bible VERY seriously, which I am very impressed with.

Answer 3

The truest in that context.

Answer 4

I AM one of Jehovah's Witnesses and can tell you that we are true Christians according to... the Bible... period.  What I am about to share is not of our own originality but is indeed the teaching and truth of God's Word, the Holy Bible.  You must understand that the Bible teaches that there are TRUE Christians AND there are FALSE Christians (John 4:23, 24).  A true Christian is simply a person who lives there life according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, laid down in the Bible, TO THE VERY BEST OF THEIR ABILITY as an imperfect human being (1 Peter 2:21-23) while a FALSE Christian does the very OPPOSITE of that (Luke 6:46).  

Jesus commanded his TRUE followers to LOVE their ENEMIES and to PRAY for those that PERSECUTE them (Matthew 5:43-48).  I can assure you, those that claimed to be Christian who partook in the horrible Crusades (and many other wars) were NOT following in the teachings of our Lord... what does that tell you?  Ask yourself who are and have been involved in generally ALL the great wars... those who CLAIM to be Christians, true or false (CLAIM being the keyword)?

Enough of that, I wish I could go deeper into that with you but lets get right down to the nitty gritty of BASIC Biblical truth as to the REAL identity of Jesus shall we?

To say that Jesus is the Almighty God is ABSOLUTE AND OUTRIGHT BLASPHEMY AND NONSENSE, as the Almighty God has NO equal, and just by his title of ALMIGHTY in and of itself shows that there is NO ONE more powerful as He and or on His level.

According to the book of Exodus (written by Moses) chapter 3 and verse 15 (Exodus 3:15) this is what God the Almighty said regarding his personal name: "Then God said once more to Moses: 'This is what you are to say to the sons of Israel, JEHOVAH the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Issac and the God of Jacob has sent me to you.' This is MY NAME TO TIME INDEFINITE, and this is the memorial of me to GENERATION AFTER GENERATION". (In the King James Version see Exodus 6:3; Psalm 83:18; Isaiah 12:2; 26:4, also Genesis 22:14; Exodus 17:15; Judges 6:24).  

Also, it is written: "Listen, O Israel: JEHOVAH our God is ONE JEHOVAH [NOT three in one a.k.a the Trinity]. And you must love JEHOVAH your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your vital force."

- Deuteronomy 6:4, 5

Muslims (and I have spoken to many) genuinely believe that Jesus and Moses were both indeed true prophets.  That being said, if Jesus was indeed a TRUE PROPHET like Moses, then what Jesus said had to be FROM GOD ALMIGHTY, and if other teachings do NOT agree with it, they MUST be from another source... true or false?  In the Gospels, God Almighty Himself stated that Jesus was indeed His Son when after Jesus was baptized by John the baptist which reads as follows; "After being baptized Jesus immediately came up from the water; and look!  The heavens were opened up, and he saw descending like a dove God's spirit coming upon him,  Look! Also, there was a voice FROM THE HEAVENS THAT SAID: 'This is MY SON, THE BELOVED, WHOM I HAVE APPROVED' ".  

- Matthew 3:16, 17

Also, (out of the MANY Scriptures of the Holy Bible) there is shown that Jesus himself approved of his disciples believing in him as God Almighty's Son as shown by the following: "He [Jesus Christ] said to them: ' You, though, who do you say I am?' In answer Simon Peter [one of Jesus disciples who later became one of the 12 apostles] said: ' You are the Christ, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD'.  In response Jesus said to him: ' Happy you are, Simon son of Jo'nah, because flesh and blood [no human] did not reveal it to you, but MY FATHER WHO IS IN THE HEAVENS DID."

- Matthew 16:15-17

Muslims generally believe that God Almighty cannot have a Son, however, what THE BIBLE means and shows as to WHY Jesus IS THE SON OF GOD and what false Christians TEACH are as far apart from each other as the Grand Canyon!  The Holy Scriptures reveal that God's having a Son does NOT mean that He had sexual relations with a wife.  But God Almighty IS the Creator.  Since He gives LIFE to those that He CREATES, can he not refer to Himself as their Father?  He speaks of his very first creation as His Son.  He calls the Angels sons of God, and He refers to Adam as His Son.  Why?  Because HE GAVE THEM LIFE.  The way in which Mary [Jesus mother] conceived Jesus was NOT by sexual relations with God but, as the Bible says, it was by means of God's holy spirit, the same ACTIVE FORCE / POWER that God used in creation.

- Matthew 3:17; 16:16, 17; Luke 1:35.

The TRUTH is that the Holy Bible reveals one of the most REMARKABLE TRUTHS about Jesus which is trying to be surpressed by Christendom and it's corrupt non-biblical teachings along with it's following of PAGAN practices, customs, holidays and observances.  This truth that I am referring to is in relation to the FACT that the Holy Bible teaches that BEFORE Jesus was born on earth as a human being, Jesus had actually lived BEFORE, IN HEAVEN alongside God the Almighty as a spirit being!  

You see, UNLIKE ANY OTHER HUMAN [with ALL due respect... INCLUDING the prophet Muhammad], Jesus was born of a VIRGIN.  Her name was Mary.  The angel named Gabriel said of her child: "This one will be great and will be called SON of the Most High." (Luke 1:28-33; Matthew 1:20-25)  But HOW could a woman who had NEVER had sexual relations with a man have a child?  It was by means of God's holy spirit.  Jehovah God the Almighty transferred the life of his mighty spirit Son from Heaven to the womb of the virgin Mary.  It was a miracle!  Surely the One who made the first woman with the wonderful ability to produce children could easily cause a woman to have a child WITHOUT a human father.  The Bible explains this where it is written: "When the full limit of the time arrived, God SENT FORTH HIS SON, WHO CAME TO BE OUT OF A WOMAN."

- Galatians 4:4

Before being born on earth as a man, Jesus had been in heaven as a mighty spirit person!  He had a spirit body invisible to man, just as God and the angels have. (John 4:24)  Jesus himself often spoke of the high position he had held in heaven.  Once he prayed to God: "Father, glorify me alongside yourself with the glory that I had alongside you BEFORE THE WORLD WAS." (John 17:5)  He also said to his listeners: "You are from the realms below; I am from the realms above.  You are from this world; I am NOT from this world."  "What, therefore, if you should behold the Son of man ascending to where he was BEFORE?"  "BEFORE Abraham came into existence, I have been."

- John 8:23; 6:62; 8:58; 3:13; 6:51

BEFORE coming to earth, Jesus was called the WORD of God.  This TITLE shows that he served in heaven as the one who spoke on God's behalf.  He is also called God's "FIRSTBORN," as well as His "ONLY BEGOTTEN" SON. (John 1:14; 3:16; Hebrews 1:6)  This means that he was created BEFORE ALL THE OTHER SPIRIT SONS [the Angels] OF GOD, and that he is the ONLY one or thing who was DIRECTLY created by God!  The Bible itself explains that this "firstborn" Son shared with Jehovah in creating ALL OTHER THINGS where it is written that: "He [Jesus Christ] is the image of the invisible God, THE FIRSTBORN OF ALL CREATION; because by means of him [Jesus Christ] all OTHER THINGS were created in the heavens and upon the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, no matter whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities.  All OTHER THINGS have been created THROUGH HIM [Jesus was the ONLY thing that was created DIRECTLY by Jehovah God the Almighty] and for him." - Colossians 1:15, 16

Thus, when God said in the book of Genesis, Let US make man in OUR image," HE WAS TALKING TO THIS SON!  Yes, the very one who later came to earth and was born from a virgin woman had shared in the creation of ALL THINGS!  Jesus had alrerady lived in heaven with his Father [Jehovah God the Almighty] for an unknown number of years... possibly BILLIONS OF YEARS!!!  

- Genesis 1:26; Proverbs 8:22-31[Wisdom prefigured and shows that God Almighty has ALWAYS been in existence but at one point in time FAR BEFORE the creation of our earth brought into existence a spirit being who became His Son and Master Worker] ; John 1:3

Jesus had no HUMAN father and therfore did not inherit the sin that is passed on to us humans from Adam.  The angel Gabriel instructed Joseph [Mary's to be husband] that he was to have no sexual relations with Mary until AFTER the child which would grow inside of her was born.  When Jesus was born he was 100% human, just as ALL of us are, except that he had absolutely no sin within him, Jesus was a PERFECT HUMAN BEING as his life came from the perfect source of life Himself... Jehovah God the Almighty, even as Adam at one time was a PERFECT HUMAN BEING, having no HUMAN father and was created by Jehovah God the Almighty. This is WHY Jesus is called the "SECOND ADAM" in the Holy Bible.

- 1 Corinthians 15:45

Muslims originate from the Arab nation whom are descendants of Ishmael who was the son of Abraham through Hagar, Abrahams wife Sarah's maidservant.  

This is why Muslims not only KNOW the truth that there is indeed ONLY ONE true God Almighty, but find the blasphemy of the "Holy" Trinity absolutely REPUGNANT... Abraham would view it the same way, as would Moses and certainly as does Jesus himself.  Jesus himself set the record straight regarding the ONLY one whom we should worship where it is written that he outright said to Satan the Devil: "Go away, Satan! For it is written, 'It is JEHOVAH YOUR GOD YOU MUST WORSHIP, and it is to HIM ALONE you MUST render sacred service".   - Matthew 4:10

Answer 5

No. Why? Jehovah Witnesses still believe Jesus died on the cross. Whereas as the Quran disagree. Plus Jehovah witnesses  say Jesus is Micheal the Archangel mentioned in Chapter 2 verse 98 of the Quran.

Answer 6

Jehovah witnesses also believe Jesus (PBUH) is the son of God-------I have a friend a jehovah witness!