Jehovah's Witnesses teach that Jesus is a created being—specifically Michael the archangel—and that the Holy Spirit is merely an impersonal active force, which stands in direct opposition to the biblical confession of the Trinity and the eternal divinity of the Son and Holy Spirit. Biblical Christianity maintains that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one eternal, consubstantial God, distinct in person but unified in essence.
The historic Christian faith, as grounded in Scripture, confesses that there is only one God, yet He eternally subsists in three distinct persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Second Helvetic Confession Ch. 3). Jehovah’s Witnesses reject the doctrine of the Trinity, arguing that the Father is the only true God and that the Son and Holy Spirit are not coequal or coeternal divine persons. In contrast, the Bible clearly testifies to the divine personhood of the Son and Spirit. John writes, 'He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life' (1 John 5:12). To deny the Son’s eternal identity as the true God is to reject the witness God has given concerning Him.
While Jehovah's Witnesses teach that Jesus was the first thing created by God and is subordinate in nature, the Reformed tradition—and the universal Church—affirms that the Son is the eternal Word who was 'with God' and was 'God' from the beginning (John 1:1). As the Second Helvetic Confession Ch. 11 states, 'with respect to his divinity the Son is coequal and consubstantial with the Father; true God, not only in name or by adoption or by any merit, but in substance and nature.' Because Jesus is truly God, His sacrifice on the cross possesses infinite value, sufficient to reconcile the ungodly to a Holy God. When we view Jesus merely as a creature, we render Him incapable of bearing the infinite weight of the Father's wrath, leaving the sinner without a sufficient Savior.