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 to 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 that
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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