John 17:3 ‘know thee the only true God’
The Watchtower says that, because the Father is called ‘the only true God’, then Jesus cannot be the true God.
The context is Jesus as a man, praying the great high priestly prayer to the Father, and as such it was proper for the man Christ Jesus to call the Father ‘the only true God’.
Christ would not have said this if it was spoken from the viewpoint of His deity.
Ask: Since Jesus being called our only Lord (Jude 4 NWT) does not exclude the Father (Matthew 11:25) and the Holy Spirit from being called Lord, why must the Father being called ‘the only true God’ exclude the Son and Holy Spirit from being called God?
Ask: According to John 17:3, how many true Gods are there? (One).
Do you agree that whatever is not true is false?
If there is only one true God, all other gods must be false gods.
In John 1:1 NWT says that Jesus is a god, right? Is Jesus a true God or a false god?
He cannot be a false god, can He, since that would mean John was guilty of falsely honouring Jesus as a god. Therefore Jesus must be a true God.
But Jehovah is the only true God. Therefore Jesus must be Jehovah.
Reprinted with permission from Pastor Keith Piper. http://www.keithpiper.org/
Dean. www.calvarystudy.info
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