Is Jesus a created God?
Jehovah's Witnesses have a problem with Jesus. Once they accept that Jesus is the same like the Father, they must also admit that they would have actually to talk to Jesus if they want to talk to the father. Since they attach great importance to the fact that Jesus is a level lower than the Watchtower Jehovah God, they have resorted to a Jesus being the quasi-bearer of prayers. So they pray to Jehovah without participating Jesus directly and attach to the prayer a formula that would be in the letter post something like a stamp.
The biblical statement that without Jesus prayer can't reach the father is bypassed by Jehovah's Witnesses by making Jesus to a kind of postal rate, which they stick to the prayer. They highlight that Jesus was the Son of God, but even that they may not really believe.
Jehovah's Witnesses see Jesus merely as a creature, which for Jehovah is like a son. (Proof in the bigger picture - click image!) This means that Jesus in the way the Jehovah's Witnesses see it does not even be the Son of God, but only can be something similar like a son of God. But as the second person in the universe he is unquestionably still a god, as described in John 1, 1. The normal translation says that Jesus is God. The Jehovah's Witnesses translation says that Jesus is only one God.
What does God himself say about this issue?
If anyone can answer these questions and solve these problems, this is God himself. Those who accept Jesus, are introduced by him personally into all truth. He has promised. Who does not want to listen to Jesus because he can not even talk to him (like the Jehovah's Witnesses), who has the ability to search for the truth in the Bible. Isaiah 43:10 gives information:
Before and after God, there is no formed god. This statement suggests the entire Watchtower theology dead at one go, because this theology lives on the splitting of the identity of God in two identities. One of them is the Almighty, the other is the Under God, who might have th epower for some time.
If you talk to Jehovah's Witnesses about this issue, they will tell you in all likelihood that Jesus was not a God, but only a divine being. They themselves probably dont't understand that differentiation, but they can at least give an argument. And with this flimsy argument, they once again violate John 1:1.
The by Jehova's Witnesses added indefinite article (and the WORD was a God) at this point is for them not enough to degrade Jesus, but they also need to divert more of it, that Jesus, at least could be any deity, even as it is claimed by the Watchtower Bible. The must say: He's not God, but only a divine being.
Only one Savior
The downsizing of Jesus is so important for Jehovah's Witnesses, they much at all in the Bible can not be accept. The on Isaiah 43.10 following verse is: I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no saviour. This very short statement of God would kick away Jesus out of the context of the Bible, if he had a second identity in addition to "Jehovah God". And even though Jesus is demonstrably the one who has thrilled the whole world most of all. Who takes the words of the Bible even halfway seriously, must recognize that Jesus and the Father are one, and in spite of different manifestations is the same.
Anyone who takes seriously Jesus will recognize that nothing is impossible for God and his existence is independent of our human thoughts and doctrines. God is independent and he has manifested himself. He can never be object of human exploration, but only the subject of our worship. We are allowed to practice this worship, because Jesus has met us and has reconciled us with the Father. He has reconciled us to himself by himself.
Jehovah God will take the power back on himself
The Watchtower Society claims that Jesus will submit to the father. This is essentially correct and is also written so in the Bible. But we can not imagine this subordination of the Son to the Father as a transfer of power, but as an association at a time when the work of Jesus is fulfilled. The Father and the Son are one and have never been anything other than one. Against this background, a submission of one to the other can not be imagined in a human-scale way. Instead, this reciprocal service happens at various places in the Bible. At one point the father says to the son: Oh God, your reign is eternal! Anyone who sees these things in human understanding as a submission, is applying only his imperfect instrument of thought to one that is far beyond our understanding.
And as a confirmation that the pending submission of the Son to the Father does not mean that the Son will lose in power and size, the Bible says: His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed. The balance between the concepts of subordination and union (which also can affect only rudimentary, what is really meant by that, because they have always been one) is in the Bible so that it should not be made a book of dogmas. Unfortunately, all religions make the Bible a book of dogma. But God allows with respect to our obtuseness some confusions, we can only understand under the influence of the Holy Spirit. This understanding is also not on schedule or as you wish, but only if the Holy Spirit wants to give it to you. This connection to the Holy Spirit can occur only, if you have turned to Jesus in clear words. Accepting Jesus is essential to life and to everything that goes with it.
The assessment of Jesus as a foreman, who has carried out the creation on behalf of his father and will deliver his power at the end, is a partial Watchtower interpretation. This one-eyed vision is only to force to minimize Jesus as much as possible and to put above him a different God. This allegedly above Jesus standing God is called Jehovah God and must always get added the attribute "God". This Jehovah "God" is just an antagonist to the God who humbled himself for us and meets us in Jesus.
One or two Gods?
This verse can be understood in a way that two individuals are mentioned, that we expect. Do we, however, add Isaiah 43.11, we must recognize and acknowledge that it is just the speech of only one. For Isaiah 43.11 says clearly: I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no saviour. By many bible passages is excluded to interpret the mentions of the great God and Savior, as if they were two entities. Why these formulas are so often used in welcoming speeches and on other occasions without explanation by the first Christians, can only be explained by the fact that they knew the statements of the Torah more accurately than we do today. The Old Testament does disqualify a two-gods system. The commandment "thou shalt have no other gods before me" is just a small example of the consciousness of early Christians. So it was familiar for them of course, that the Son and the Father are one, not two. They must have credited God, that he can show himself in more than one appearance. They must have probably left to God, how he does what and why. This is obedience, that is faith.
Who of the Jehovah's Witnesses has the faith that God is more and can more do than that, what is claimed by the Watchtower Society about him?