Trinity

Jehovah's Witnesses explicitly reject the doctrine of the Trinity, teaching that it is a post-biblical human invention with roots in Greek philosophy and pagan religion. According to their teaching, Jehovah (YHWH) alone is the one Almighty God—the supreme being, the Creator, the source of all existence. Jesus Christ is a distinct, subordinate being whom Jehovah created, and the Holy Spirit is not a person but God's impersonal active force. The doctrine that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are co-equal and co-eternal is, in their view, irreconcilable with Scripture.

The Watch Tower Society's publication Should You Believe in the Trinity? (1989) argues that the Trinity doctrine was adopted by the early Church under the influence of pagan Hellenistic philosophy rather than being taught by Jesus or the Apostles. Jehovah's Witnesses interpret John 1:1 in their New World Translation as 'the Word was a god'—a divine but subordinate being—rather than 'the Word was God.' They emphasize that the Father alone bears the personal divine name Jehovah and that Jesus himself said 'the Father is greater than I am' (John 14:28).