Do Jehovah's Witnesses worship Two Gods? It is well known that Jehovah's Witnesses exalt Jehovah as the only God.  This is (correctly) supported by texts such as Deut 4:35, Isa 44:6, 45:5, 6 that declare Jehovah as the ONLY God; or besides me there is no God, etc.  See also Deut 6:4.

Because Jehovah is God Almighty, only He is worthy of worship (Ex 20:3, 34:14, Deut 8:19, 2 Kings 17:35-38, etc).

However, JWs also say that Jesus is "a god" (John 1:1 NWT), and "my Lord and my God" (John 20:28), and "with us is God" (Matt 1:23 NWT), etc.

Further, their NWT also says that Jesus is worthy of obeisance and worship (Matt 28:17, Luke 24:52, John 9:38, Heb 1:6, Phil 2:10, etc.)

Does this mean that JWs actually worship two gods?  That is, either Jesus is God or not.  If Jesus is God and worthy of worship then they have two Gods.  If Jesus is NOT worthy of worship then he is not a god and the Bible texts saying he is are wrong.  So what is the JW position?

This question is made the more interesting by JWs' claim that Jesus is an angel on the one hand; but on the other obeisance is forbidden to angels in Rev 19:10, 22:8, 9.  Further, the distinction JWs make between obeisance and worship (which both translate the same word) is not made in the NT.
Do Jehovah's Witnesses worship Two Gods?  Absolutely not!  They worship only Jehovah God and they pray only to Jehovah God (in the name of Jesus Christ).  That is because they see the pre-mortal Jesus as a created being who is lower than Jehovah God, his Father.  Also, they say before Jesus came to earth to be born of a woman he was known as Michael the Archangel and since his spirit returned to heaven, is still known as Michael the Archangel (What Doe the Bible Really Teach, Appendix page 218).  

Obviously, it would be utterly wrong for anybody to worship a created angel (Revelation 19:10).  Jehovah’s Witnesses say Jehovah is God (the only God to be worshipped) and Jesus is “a god” (who must not be worshipped). 


  “Reverent adoration should be expressed only to God. To render worship to anyone or anything else would be a form of idolatry, which is condemned in both the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures. Accordingly, true Christians do well to direct their worship only to Jehovah God, the Almighty."  (8 April 2000 Awake pp 26-27)


The conclusion drawn is that when anyone worships Jesus, it is idolatry.  This would be consistent with what the 1 November 1964 Watchtower (page 671) said:


  “Jehovah's Witnesses say that it is unscriptural for worshipers of the living and true God to render worship to the Son of God, Jesus Christ."


However, it was not until 1 January 1954 that this view was first adopted (on page 31 of that Watchtower issue).  The inconsistency is that from 1914 up until 1954, it had never been defined that worship of Jesus was idolatry.  Here is one example: 


  “Jehovah God commands all to worship Christ Jesus because Christ Jesus is the express image of his Father, Jehovah, and because he is the Executive Officer of Jehovah always carrying out Jehovah's purpose (Heb.:3-6)." 15 November 1939 Watchtower (p 339)


The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was first published in 1950 (if follows the text of Westcot &amp; Hort). The complete NWT was published in 1961 then revised in 1970 and 1984.  Since then, another revision has been published, but I don’t have access to it.  One thing is clear – at some point after 1954 the NWT replaced “worship” with “obeisance” every time it applies to Jesus, but every time the word applies to Jehovah God, they render it as worship.  That is because they refuse to worship Jesus Christ.