QUESTION: In John 1:1-3, does it mean Christ is God or a god? Is this passage mistranslated when it says, “the Word was God?”

ANSWER: The passage teaches that Christ is God! The Jehovah’s Witnesses mistranslate the passage in the New World Translation, which says, “the word was a god.” There is no scholar or scholarly translation that holds as do the Jehovah’s Witnesses. They have wrested the Scriptures to their own destruction (II Peter 3:16). It is a fact that of the five members of the New World Translation Committee, only one had any college education at all. This one had only two years at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. Additionally, none of the five could even read Hebrew or Greek. One of these (R.W. Franz) admitted such under trial in Scotland on November 24, 1954. Clearly, these men were not qualified to translate Scripture. It is no wonder then that their ungodly translation is filled with error from beginning to end and is good for nothing save fuel for the fire!