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For those that Believe in God, His word is deemed to be an infallible doctrine so how do JW's justify their version?

God's laws reflect upon His wisdom, JW's watchtower act as if He had left out something which was needed, and which man could supply; in one way or other they lead men to discount God's ability to be Emmanuel in Jesus. How thankful ought we to be for the written Word of God! Never let us think that the religion of the Bible can be improved by any human addition, either in doctrine or practice.

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  • Steph
    Lv 7
    5 years ago
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    They justify their version because they're told it is the most accurate. Their version will always trump any other Bible as far as accuracy, in their opinion. If we say, "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God," they will say, "No, our translation is more accurate because it says and the Word was A god. The other Bibles corrupted it." That is just one example of how their corrupted version destroys the word of God. The New World Translation is NOT the word of God. It is a Satan inspired book and is a massive violation. It is prohibited to change the word of God but clearly they didn't take that seriously.

  • BJ
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Up until 1950 the teachings of Jehovah’s witnesses were based mainly upon the King James Version of the Bible, but in the course of years the publications of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society in English alone have quoted from more than seventy (70) different Bible translations produced in Christendom.

    In all parts of the world Jehovah’s witnesses are proving their Bible-based beliefs to the people by the copy of the Bible that the householder may have or that he may recognize as authoritative.

    So the New World Translation comes along merely as a confirmation of the correctness of the teachings of Jehovah’s witnesses and does not constitute the foundation of their teachings.

    The KJ uses words that do not have the same meaning today as they did 400 years ago when the KJ was written, take 1 Cor. 10:25 it says (everything you find in the shambles you may eat) what does the word shambles mean to you today?

    More than likely you would say ( a mess, this place is really a mess) the word shambles 400 years ago meant (a meat market) if a person was reading that scripture in the KJ they would not understand the meaning of the scripture.

    The New World Translation of the Bible & some other translations corrects this scripture with the words (meat market) now you can understand the meaning of the scripture. There are also other words that have been corrected also.

    Available in whole or in part in over 120 languages. For a complete list of languages, see www.jw.org.

    Total Printed of All Editions of the New World Translation:

    208,366,928 Copies

    May 2014 Printing

  • 5 years ago

    I don't know where you got your information, but it was probably someone's opinion or an apostate. Proverbs 11:9 "By his mouth the apostate brings his neighbor to ruin, But by knowledge the righteous are rescued." Also 2Thessalonians 2:3 says: "Let no one lead you astray in any way, because it will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness gets revealed, the son of destruction." (9) But the lawless one's presence is by the operation of Satan with every powerful work and lying signs and wonders. (10) and every unrighteous deception for those who are perishing, as a retribution because they did not accept the love of the truth in order that they might be saved. (11) That is why God lets a deluding influence mislead them so that they may come to believe the lie, (12) in order that they all may be judged because they did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in unrighteousness." The Bible is what JW's teach earth-wide today. Jesus commanded his disciples to "Go and make disciples of people of all the nations" and that is what the witnesses do in obedience to Jesus. Matthew 28:19 and 20 Neither did Almighty God ever claim to be Jesus nor did Jesus ever claim to be Jehovah God. How confusing it must be to see in the Scriptures Jesus praying to his Father if he himself is the Father. Who, exactly, was King Solomon talking about in these Scriptures (Proverbs 8:22-31)? How could the Father be what Colossians 1:15 says; "He is the image of God, the first-born of all creation;" Jesus Christ was created by Jehovah which made him just what Jesus always claimed him to be, his Father. It wasn't until the 4th century that religious leaders ever gave it a thought that Jesus somehow became Almighty God. You can find that truth in both in The New Encyclopedia Britannica and from The New Catholic Encyclopedia if you actually want to know the truth. Whether people want to believe it or not, Jehovah's Witnesses do their homework and their research and humbly admit when they have been wrong. Are you willing to do the same? You do your homework and come back with your information. Then admit it if you were wrong.

  • Kjw47
    Lv 6
    5 years ago

    Certain truths were hidden until these last days( Dan 12:4)-- the apostasy( 2Thess 2:3) rose up after the Apostles and Christians were killed off--the apostasy translated the bible--all the errors carried over into every translation through the centuries because they had no clue as to what was truth. But at Daniel 12:4 it assures here in these last days truth would become abundant--that means errors were taught all through the centuries--the ones making correction will prove right in the end. Without correction, this is impossible to achieve-John 4:22-24

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    They believe that they alone hold the proper interpretations of scripture

    The first thing Jehovah’s Witnesses are trained to do is to take you out of your own Bible and introduce you to theirs! They will say that the New World Translation is “easier to understand in the modern English”. They also make the New World Translation easy to afford. Back when we had the “green Bible” it was only a dollar to the householder while other versions of the Bible cost many times that.

    Was it in the Watchtower leaders best interest to make their version of the Bible easy to own?

    If you said “yes” you get a gold star!

    What Jehovah’s Witnesses won’t tell you is that their Bible has intentionally altered every single key scripture that disagrees with their beliefs and teachings in order to make it easier for them to convert you.

    If you want to get a real education regarding the scriptures that the Watchtower has altered, simply get a copy of their Greek Interlinear (the purple Bible) and read the actual Greek translation in the left margins and compare it to the New World Translation in the right margin! You’ll see glaring differences in the actual translation and I’ve included a photo of their rendering of John 3:16 shown below for instructional purposes.

    MORE

    http://thewatchtowerfiles.com/jehovahs-witnesses-j...

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    I am a Christian,

    The Watchtower is full of deception and the JWs are not honest enough to admit the truth. For example, JWs do not celebrate Christmas today but they did!

    1904 "Even though Christmas is not the real anniversary of our Lord's birth, but more properly the annunciation day or the date of his human begetting (Luke 1:28), nevertheless, since the celebration of our Lord's birth is not a matter of divine appointment or injunction, but merely a tribute of respect to him, it is not necessary for us to quibble particularly about the date. We may as well join with the civilized world in celebrating the grand event on the day which the majority celebrate - "Christmas day."" (Watchtower, Dec. 1, 1904, p. 364)

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    The JW's can't justify their version. The JW Bible is not a real translation because they changed some of the words in the Bible to suit their cult.

  • 5 years ago

    So which bible would you say is gods official word ?? because there are 1000s of different bibles

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Here's a joke

    "Witness"

  • 5 years ago

    Jw are NOT christian; thus they don't justify anything. They worship the man-made GB.

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