{"id":35850,"date":"2025-05-14T01:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T01:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=35850"},"modified":"2026-11-05T21:26:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T21:26:53","slug":"are-jehovahs-witnesses-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ru\/learn\/are-jehovahs-witnesses-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u042f\u0432\u043b\u044f\u044e\u0442\u0441\u044f \u043b\u0438 \u0421\u0432\u0438\u0434\u0435\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0438 \u0418\u0435\u0433\u043e\u0432\u044b \u0445\u0440\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0430\u043d\u0430\u043c\u0438? \u041e\u043d\u0438 \u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u044f\u0442 \u00ab\u0434\u0430\u00bb, \u0434\u0440\u0443\u0433\u0438\u0435 \u0446\u0435\u0440\u043a\u0432\u0438 \u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u044f\u0442 \u00ab\u043d\u0435\u0442\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Ask a Jehovah&#039;s Witness and you will hear a sincere yes: they follow Jesus, pray in his name and call themselves Christians. Catholic, Orthodox and most Protestant churches answer no, because Witnesses reject the Trinity. Witnesses teach that Jesus is God&#039;s Son and his first creation, not Almighty God, and so they do not worship him. Both sides, then, are speaking of the same Jesus. Witnesses honor him as Savior, and once a year millions of them gather to remember\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ru\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ru\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses call themselves Christians, but most churches do not count them as Christian, because Witnesses reject the Trinity and teach that Jesus is God&#039;s first creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[219,531],"class_list":["post-35850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education","series-denominations-compared","series-understanding-jehovahs-witnesses"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3273,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ru\/learn\/jehovahs-witnesses-vs-protestant\/","url_meta":{"origin":35850,"position":0},"title":"Are Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses Protestant? 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