Is Jesus Christ the created archangel, Michael?

                                                     
                 Questions About Jesus for Jehovah's Witnesses
                                (all quotes from Watchtower publications)


   1 . Do you believe that God sent His Son to ransom the human
        race? (Jn 3:16)

                 "As mankind's source of salvation Jehovah God provided
                for the perfect man, whose life could ransom the human race,
                by transferring the life force of his chief angelic Son in the
                heavens to the womb of a virgin. Because the child that was
                born did not receive it's life through Adam's line of descent
                but from God, it was perfect. Thus Jesus Christ became equal
                to Adam and able to ransom mankind by laying down his
                perfect human life."

    2.Do you believe that it was necessary for Michael the archangel's
       life to be transferred into the virgin Mary for Jesus to be born?

                 "Since actual conception took place, it appears that Jehovah
                God caused an ovum or egg cell in Mary's womb to become
                fertile, accomplishing this by the transferral of the life of his
                firstborn Son from the spirit realm to earth. (Gal. 4:4) Only in
                this way could the child eventually born have retained identity
                as the same person who had resided in heaven as the Word . . . "

               
    3. Do you know that Michael's being or personality is called a "soul"?

                 "So it is with a human being. There is a body and a life principle,
                the union of which makes the soul. His experiences--his home-life,
                his education, his environment, his travels, his finances, his private
                affairs--all go to make up his personality. It is not his body, but
                his soul that has these experiences . . . To the individual, it does
                not matter what particles compose his new body. What he is
                in is the resurrection of his soul--his being--his personality."

                                                    
    4. Do you know that Michael's soul (person) was a combination of two
        things: a spirit body and a life force (spirit)?

                 "Being signifies existence, and there can be no being or
                existence without life and body both.Withdraw life and the
                or existence ceases, for life is but a power or principle, the
                same in the lower animals as in man; the difference in qualities
                between man and the brute, consiting not in a different kind
                of life, but in a different kind of body. Any being is properly
                called a soul or person. This is the Scriptural sense and
                usage of the word soul, so little understood; viz. being
                                         (life and body combined)..."

                "With this view of the meaning of the word, soul, viz: That
                it includes all being or existence (a combination of life and body)
                us inquire. What dies-the principle of life, or the body? We
                answer, Neither; the life principle is onw which pervades all
                creation just as does electricity.This principle of life pervades
                and is an essential element of all being, in tree, in fish, in fowl,
                in beast, in man, in angels, and in the fullest degree in God
               who is its source or fountain. This principle cannot be said to die
                though if it be withdrawn from any creature to whom God has
                given it, that creature will die--cease to have being. Thus the
                breath of life is taken from beasts, birds, fish and man."

                "Neither can it be properly said that the body dies, since,
                separate from the principle of life the body never had life and
                consequently could not die. The body without the spirit (of life)
                is dead and that which is dead cannot die."

                                
                         WHAT THEN IS DEATH--WHAT DIES?

                 "We answer, the being dies--ceases to have being or existence.
                Death is the dissolution, or separation of the things which
                combined, constitute being,--namely, life and body."

                                                                                                        
   5. Do you know that the life force is like electricity, which activates many
       things but does not take on their qualities? In other words, do you know
       that the life force is neither alive nor dead, but is an impersonal thing?

                 "All things having life, either spiritual or fleshly, have an
                organism or body. Life itself is impersonal, incorporeal,
                being merely the life principle."

                "The spirit is much like electricity, which activates many things
                but does not take on their qualities."

                 "Thus the spirit could not have personality but must be an
                impersonal force. The invisible spirit or life-force active in
                both man and the animals might be compared with electricity,
                also an invisible force..."

                "The same invisible force that produces sound in one appliance
                can produce heat in another. The electric current, however,
                never takes on the characteristics of the machines or
                appliances in which it functions or is active."

                "If the breath or power of life be withdrawn, death results.
                Now the question is, What dies? Does the breath die? Surely
                not; it never had sentient existence but is a principle or power
                of life. It has no thought, no feeling, no intelligent existence; it
                cannot die."

                                                   
   6. Do you know that only Michael's life force, not his body, was
       transferred from heaven to earth?

                 "This did not mean that, for the Jewish virgin girl Mary to
                conceive, one of the heavenly spirit sons of God had to be
                sent to crawl into the microscopic ovum or egg cell in Mary's
                body and fertilize it. Such a thing is unreasonable, an absurdity! "

                                                   
                "Then there happened what the apostle Paul reveals ti us:
                God's principle Son in heaven, God's "only-begotten Son,"
                emptied himself of his heavenly form and glory, that God, his
                heavenly Father, might miraculously transfer his life to the
                womb of Mary the Jewish virgin, and have a human birth and
                come to be "in the likeness of men." Thus God's Son came
                down from heaven."

                                                    
                "His human birth was not an incarnation making him part
                man and part spirit person. No; but in this transfer of his life
                to the virgin's womb Jehovah's God-like Son divested himself
                of everything spirit and heavenly and became a man."

                "That the heavenly Word of God divested himself of everything
                as a God-like spirit except his life-force and that he lowered
                himself to become no more than a perfect man, his inspired
                                           apostle bears witness."

               
    7. Do you understand that Michael's life force did not take his personality
       or soul to earth, since his soul, his personality, ceased to exist when his
       body and life force were separated?

                                          See quotes from question #4.

    8. Do you that there was no 'personal' connection between Michael and 
       Jesus Christ?

    9. Do you know that the Apostle Paul warns us about those who preach
        "another Jesus," not the real Jesus? (2 Cor. 11:14)

   10. Is the teaching that Michael is Jesus, the teaching of "another" Jesus?

   11. Does the Watchtower Society teach the real Jesus, or another Jesus?

   12. Do you believe in another Jesus?

                                                    

                           He (Jesus) isn't Michael, they have the wrong
                      Jesus-- "Another" Cor.11:3-4). In summary....

                
   1. The birth of Jesus could only be accomplished by Michael's life being
       transferred into the womb of Mary.

   2. The living person Michael is defined as having both a life force and a
       spirit body. The only thing transferred from heaven was his life force,
       not his body.

   3. Unwittingly, the Society has boxed itself into an irreconcilable problem.
       According their doctrine, a life force is IMPERSONAL, not taking on the
       characteristics, the qualities of the person it is connected with. Therefore
       Michael's life force did NOT posses either life or personality!

               The conclusion is very clear: Since nothing of Michael tha
               was living or personal was sent into Mary's womb--the
               Michael (life force and spirit body) did not come to earth.
               Thus, Michael was not born to the virgin Mary. He is not
               Jesus Christ! You can be assured that the Witness has
               probably never contemplated the connection between
               Michael and Jesus. Therefore, the answer is that Jesus is
               NOT  Michael the Archangel; He is God the Word
               made flesh!

               (From the book: Where's Michael?)
 

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