Arianism vs Christianity discussion with the Jehovah Witness "Mindy"

(Cristoiglesia) You call yourself Christians yet do not even believe in the most fundamental beliefs of Christians which is that Jesus is God.

(Mindy) “What God's Word THE BIBLE says and teaches:
"But these have been written down that YOU may believe that Jesus is the Christ THE SON OF GOD, and that, because of believing, YOU may have LIFE by means of his name."
~John 20:31”

(Cristoiglesia) OK and how does this teach Arianism? Yes, He is the Son of God and the second person in the Trinity of one God in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

(Mindy) “THAT'S what I and over 7 MILLION of my fellow CHRISTIAN Witnesses of Jehovah worldwide fully believe and trust in.”

(Cristoiglesia) I am well aware of what you and the other schismatic sects of the Jehovah Witness sects believe. However this places you outside of Christianity as Christianity universally teaches the Trinity. You trust in a doctrine of men first promoted by the heretical bishop Arius. Arius was found in anathema at the Council of Nicaea. Even though He was supported by the powerful Emperor Constantine he lost the debate to the Holy Spirit who led the lowly deacon Athanasius to defeat the powerful bishop Arius. The teaching of Christ and the disciples triumphed over the heresy taught by Arius. Those who believe and follow the teaching of Arius are called Arians and not Christian. The belief in the Trinity is the fundamental belief for one to call oneself Christian. Jehovah Witnesses, Ang Dating Daan and Iglesia ni Cristo all are Arians. You deny the Church in whom Jesus placed all authority on earth. The Jehovah Witnesses have no authority to teach or to promote doctrines.

(Mindy) “Unless YOU or anyone else can show us by scripture exactly WHERE in the Bible (Bible book, chapter and verse) that it says anything even remotely close to "Unless we believe that Jesus Christ IS God Almighty we are doomed", we will go by what is specifically written at John 20:31 about our Lord.”

(Cristoiglesia) The Bible is the product of the Church. The Church wrote the New Testament and all the authors were Catholic Christians who were inspired by the Holy Spirit. It is the Church that decided the Christian Canon at the African Synods in the late fourth and early fifth centuries under the supervision of St. Augustin. The Bible has no teaching authority outside the Church. It is interesting and shows gross inconsistency that the Jehovah Witnesses accept their modified and truncated version of Scriptures that was produced by the Catholic Church but then deny the doctrines from that same source. Your proof text understanding of Scriptures is called eisegesis and almost always results in error as it does in this instance.

I do not believe that I have called you doomed as our sovereign Lord can save whom He wishes but the abandonment of His Church, ignorance of His nature and denial of His will by Jehovah Witnesses puts them into serious risk of the salvific promise. Certainly their rejection of the fullness of truth available in His Church and the Sacraments that provide this salvific grace opens them to all sorts of heretical lies and a questionable eternal destiny. But it also proves the satanic seduction of one following their own path instead of the narrow way which our Lord has taught that is necessary for eternal life.

(Mindy) “Jesus IS NOT God Almighty, he is THE SON of God Almighty, CREATED by God Almighty before all the other creations of God and was the only being and thing in existence that was created DIRECTLY by God whereas all other things where created by God but THROUGH the Word (Pre-human) Jesus as is testified IN SCRIPTURE.”

(Cristoiglesia) This is not the teaching of the Church either through the Bible, the apostolic witness or the Church. Yours is a heretical doctrine of men. It is the doctrine of men and in particular the teaching of Charles Taze Russell who was inspired by the Stone-Campbell-Millerite restorationist movement of the 19th century of which the Jehovah Witness, Mormons, Christodelphians and Seventh Day Adventists are some of the larger of the schisms. Your cousin faiths are almost as far from the truth as you are as well. Not surprising as you come from the same source.

No, Jesus is not a created being nor is He the human incarnation of Michael the Archangel. He is truly as the Bible teaches through the Church the second person of the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Please read the Nicene Creed which settled this controversy or the Athanasius Creed which also explains the orthodox Christian understanding of the nature of God in the Trinity.

(Mindy) “I feel so very sorry for you dude, but there is still yet time for YOU to see the light, but that time is RAPIDLY running out. Wait until Jehovah God puts the thought of getting rid of religion into the hearts of the political powers within the U.N and the Catholic Church (and all other false religion) becomes no more. God's wrath is coming on Catholicism and her members.”

(Cristoiglesia) I saw the light ten years ago when I converted to Catholic Christianity and left the worldly, fluid and ever changing doctrines and heresies of Protestantism of which your restorationist sect is an extremely heterodox example. I came home to
Christ’s Church and into His will as He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane that we all be one in His Church as He and the Father are one. It is this familial relationship and communion that He desires.

The worldly have tried to destroy Christ’s Church before but it remains as a witness to the veracity of Christ’s promise to humanity as the Church which will endure for all times and that it is the Church that the gates of hell will not prevail against. There can be no other. The Church is the bride of Christ and will not suffer His wrath but perhaps the wrath of the world. We know from Christ’s teaching that the Church will survive and prosper despite the attacks from within and without. After all, Jesus taught us that the world would hate us as it hated Him and we know that He is victorious over the prince of darkness and father of lies. We put our trust in Him and not in a man-made sect full of false teaching and prophecy.

May our Lord have mercy on the enemies of His Church.

God bless!

In Christ
Fr. Joseph