June 24, 2010
In a recent conversation with a person from the watchtower society, I was told that there is a difference between mighty God and Almighty God. This is the argument they use to discredit Isaiah 9:6, but it is also the closest that they will come to actually admitting that Jesus is the Mighty God, The everlasting Father, and The Prince of Peace spoken of in Isaiah 9:6.
I’ve never encountered this argument before; but Scripture clearly states that the mighty God is the LORD God Jehovah. Three examples that prove this is scripture are:
| Psalm 50:1 | A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. |
In Jeremiah 32:18 Jehovah is called “the Great” and is also called “the Mighty God”:
| Jeremiah 32:16 | Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying, |
| Jeremiah 32:17 | Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee: |
| Jeremiah 32:18 | Thou showest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name, |
| Jeremiah 32:19 | Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings: |
| Jeremiah 32:20 | Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day; |
| Jeremiah 32:21 | And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror; |
| Jeremiah 32:22 | And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey; |
| Jeremiah 32:23 | And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them: |
| Jeremiah 32:24 | Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it. |
In Habakkuk 1:12 we see mighty God being applied to the personal name of God.
| Habakkuk 1:12 | Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. |
Those are just three examples that show that their argument is incorrect. If you do a word search, you will see more examples of where mighty God and Almighty God are used interchangeably.
Even though the Mighty God vs. the Almighty God argument is new to me, the Holy Spirit anticipated this heresy thousands of years in advance through scripture.
| Revelation 1:7 | Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. |
| Revelation 1:8 | I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. |
Jesus Christ is the Almighty. Clearly both Almighty God & Mighty God are both used of Jehovah in the Old Testament, and Almighty is used of Jesus in the New Testament. This argument appears to be a desperate attempt to handle the word of God deceitfully.
| II Corinthians 4:1 | Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; |
| II Corinthians 4:2 | But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. |
| II Corinthians 4:3 | But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: |
| II Corinthians 4:4 | In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. |
| II Corinthians 4:5 | For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. |
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