In the 1950's, the Watchtower changed their doctrine on Jesus
to coincide with the release of the New World Translation of the
Holy Scriptures.
Contrary to most other
translations, this new Bible for Jehovah's Witnesses translated
the word proskuneo as
obeisance rather than worship whenever it referred to Jesus.
This is despite the fact that with almost every other occurrence,
the New World Translation translates proskuneo as worship.
Proskuneo occurs 55 times. Of the 15 times it applies to Jesus, it
is translated 15 times as
obeisance. Of the remaining 37 times it is translated 34 times as
worship regardless of whether it is referring to Jehovah, angels,
humans, Satan, demons, the wild beast or idols. Why this unusual
stance in connection with Jesus?
This is because the teaching about Jesus was to change. The first clear statement that Jesus must not be worshipped
was in 1954. From that time forward there was a new belief in the position of Jesus.

"Should we worship Jesus? Consequently, since the Scriptures teach that Jesus Christ is not a trinitarian co-person
with God the Father, but is a distinct person, the Son of God, the answer to the above question must be that no distinct
worship is to be rendered to Jesus Christ now glorified in heaven.
Our worship is to go to Jehovah God. However, we show the proper regard for God's only-
begotten Son by rendering our worship to God through and in
the name of Jesus Christ. Even now when we kneel in prayer, as Paul did according to Ephesians
3:14-19, we offer prayer in the name of Jesus Christ in obedience to his own directions
(John 15:16; 16:23-26), but the prayer itself is addressed, not to
Jesus, but to God his Father. In this way we keep things in their
relative positions." Watchtower 1954 Jan 1 p.31

"Trinitarians who believe that Jesus is God, or at least the second person of the triune God, do not like to have Jehovah's
witnesses say that it is
unscriptural for worshipers of the living and true God to render
worship to the Son of God, Jesus Christ" Watchtower 1964 Nov 1
p.671

"Reverent adoration should be expressed only to God. To render
worship to anyone or anything else would be a form of idolatry,
which is condemned in both the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures.
Accordingly, true Christians do well to direct their worship only
to Jehovah God, the Almighty."
Awake! 2000 Apr 8 pp.26,27

"Though some claim that prayer may properly be addressed to others, such as to God's Son, the
evidence is emphatically to the contrary." Insight on the Scriptures Volume 2 p.667.

Christianity is finished.

do what you like. As for me and my house, we will worship Jesus.

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HOW THE WATCHTOWER MISQUOTES SCRIPTURES TO REFUTE THE WORSHIP OF JESUS

On occasion the Watchtower use
misquotes to hide its history or prove doctrines. For example,
look at the way in which the charter is quoted since the doctrine was changed.
Though a Witness is bluntly told not to worship Jesus, the Charter
was not amended to reflect this new doctrine until 1999.
Therefore, for 45 years Witnesses were counselled against
worshipping Jesus even though to do so was stated as the
express reason for the existence of the Watchtower Society. This is despite the fact that it is considered idolatry to worship
and pray to Jesus and will result in a Witness being
disfellowshipped. It is interesting to see how the Watchtower dealt
with having in its charter that Jesus is to be worshipped. They
either misquoted it or avoided it completely.
The Yearbook of 1969 p.50 leaves the words "and Christ Jesus" out altogether, cheekily
replacing them with dots.

"for public Christian worship of
Almighty God … ; to arrange for"

The section of the charter shown above is quoted almost in full in the footnote of the 1971
Watchtower on page 760,
altering one small but significant word (which it correctly places in
brackets) to significantly hide and change the true meaning of the sentence.

"for public Christian worship of Almighty God [through] Christ
Jesus; to arrange for..."
Watchtower 1971 Dec 15 p.760

The 1993 Proclaimers book, outlining a history of the Watchtower Society, failed to
even admit what is in the Charter.

current questionable doctrine

Up until 1938, the Watchtower title included the words Herald of
Christ's Presence.
In 1939, the title of the January 1st issue changed to The Watchtower and Herald of Christ’s Kingdom. On March 1st,
1939 the word Christ was
removed and replaced with Jehovah. To this day it is now The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom.
It is interesting to understand why it was originally taught that
Jesus is a God worthy of our worship and prayers.

Jesus is a God

John 1:1 " and the Word was a god."
John 20:28-29 "In answer
Thomas said to him: "My Lord and my God!" Jesus said to him:
"Because you have seen me have you believed? Happy are those
who do not see and yet believe.""

Jesus was worshipped

The Bible repeatedly says that Jesus was worshipped. The New
World Translation is virtually alone in translating the word
proskuneo as obeisance. Yet look at the context of the following scripture to understand that the
thought given is one of
reverential worship.
Hebrews 1:6 "But when he again brings his Firstborn into the
inhabited earth, he says: "And let all God's angels do obeisance (proskuneo, worship) to him."

Jesus is our creator

John 1:2-4 "This one was in [the] beginning with God. All things
came into existence through him, and apart from him not even one
thing came into existence. What has come into existence by means of him was life, and the
life was the light of men."

Jesus was prayed to

Acts 7:59 "And they went on casting stones at Stephen as he made appeal and said: "Lord
Jesus, receive my spirit."
Stephen prayed to Jesus whilst being stoned to death. Unlike most translations, the New World Translation uses the word appeal
instead of prayer. However, the footnote to New World Translation, 1950 edition, states
(footnote b: "invocation; prayer".
The Emphatic Diaglott by
Benjamin Wilson and published by the Watchtower Society also
refers to "the prayer of Stephen" in its' footnote. Regardless of whether Stephen appealed or
prayed to Jesus, it is clear what the writer meant. The reason the New World Translation is averse to using the word prayer is that it is an indication of worship. Can
you imagine what would happen today if an elder stood on the platform and prayed to Jesus
instead of Jehovah?
This leads to a very interesting problem. If Jehovah's Witnesses
worshipped Jehovah and
worshipped Jesus that means they were worshipping two
Gods. Does that not then make them Polytheistic? Yet Deuteronomy 6:4 states 'Jehovah
our God is one Jehovah". The first of the ten commandments stated
at Exodus 20:2-3
"I am Jehovah your God, who have brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
slaves. You must not have any other gods against my face."
By current Watchtower teaching, until 1954 Russell and all
Jehovah's Witnesses were
idolaters, a sin Revelation 21:8 describes as worthy of the second death. If that is the case, they cannot be part of the
144,000 heavenly rulers.
Early Jewish Christians grappled with this concept. Their background was Monotheistic,
yet they were to worship Jesus, pray to him and refer to him as
God. This left first century
Christians with both a Father and a Son referred to as their God, their creator and to be
worshipped; yet they could not accept polytheism. The way to
resolve this quandary was to say that Jesus and Jehovah together
make up the one God. This understanding is referred to as
Binitarianism, and L. W. Hurtado presents a strong case that this was the original position of first
century Christianity, a position borne out of necessity to maintain a religion that
worshipped only one God. The very earliest of the Christian writers describe Jesus as immortal (Mathetes), God (Justin
Martyr) and co-equal (Tertullian) with the Father. Further
development to the Binitarian concept was Trinitarianism,
which saw New Testament writings as indicating the
personage of the Holy Spirit as part of the Godhead. It is with
this understanding that a
Witness can start to consider that
the current Watchtower doctrine of God does not have strong Scriptural support.
When significant Watchtower doctrine change, you have to
question whether the Holy Spirit directs the Governing Body in
doctrine. Once you recognise that Watchtower articles
dishonestly hide information, each Watchtower will be read
with a touch of suspicion. You can hardly begin to comprehend how much of what you accept as
fact you will now need to start to question.

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