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Well, today we're going to be talking about the New World
Translation as we continue our series looking at world
religions and cults. And of course, today or the last
few weeks we've been looking at the Jehovah Witnesses.
And with me today, I have a copy of the New World Translation.
Now I have this Bible, or rather I have this book, I think would
be a better way of calling it. I have this in my office.
I picked it up a few years ago at Savers, and I saw it there
for a couple of dollars. And I thought, you know what,
this would be a good thing to be able to have in my office.
Now, if you look at this and you look at your Bible, you'll see a
lot of similarities. Won't you see a leather cover?
It actually says Holy Scriptures right here on the front.
If you were to open it up, you'd find 66 books inside chapters
and verses. The font even looks exactly like
you would find in your Bible. There's a lot of similarities to
the Bible that you have in your hands to the New World
Translation of which I'm holding in my hand.
However, while those similarities might make you
think that there is no difference between your King
James Bible and the New World Translation, the chasm couldn't
be any wider between what this book represents and the actual
Bible. While this may say Holy
Scriptures, this is not a copy of the Holy Scriptures.
And Jehovah Witnesses used this book, distorting the very basic
doctrines of the Word of God to be able to support those things
that they peddle, whether they're going door to door or
whether they have a rack of literature at any of the major
thoroughfares like we've talked about before.
Well, as it's been our tradition over the last few weeks, I enjoy
being able to take video to show to you to kind of help you
understand the mindset of one of these groups that we have talked
about. And again, the videos we've been
watching are not someone from the outside, but rather someone
who's on the inside. And again, this video that we'll
be watching today is from jw.org, and it is in reference
to the creation and then the propagation of the New World
Translation. Where did it come from?
How was it created? And I think that you'll see some
things that might set off some alarms in your mind.
And then we're going to talk about some of.
And then as we go along this morning, we're also going to
have you open your Bibles and compare verses that you see in
the Bible to the New World Translation to see why it's such
a major difference. So we'll go ahead and watch this
video and then we'll have some discussions.
So let's do it. In carrying out the Commission
to preach the good news of God's Kingdom, Jehovah's Witnesses
have published hundreds of books and distributed millions of.
Copies throughout the world. Of these, one particular book
stands above. All the rest.
This book has a long history and was the triumph.
Of years of research. The book we're talking about is
the New World Translation of the.
Holy Scriptures. It is a record of the.
Sacred writings of God and held by some to be among the best
translations of the. Bible ever produced but.
How did it come to be and what makes it important for those
interested in the? Truth about God by the.
Mid 19th century Bible translations into English were.
Readily available Charles Tays Russell used a.
Variety of Bibles in his. Research, he shared.
His suggestions with the readers of the magazine Zions Watchtower
writing in 1880, Russell recommended to other Bible
students the emphatic diaglot and versions done by Titsendorf
and the American Bible Union. By 1884, Russell along with
others interested in promoting Bible.
Education legally. Registered the Zions Watchtower
Tract Society. Zions Watchtower grew to become
a Bible. Distributor as a.
Service to its readers. The Society.
Drew attention to informative Bible translations, in fact.
They bought large. Quantities so as to get.
Good rates. And then made them available.
At greatly reduced cost. A Bible.
Student could purchase editions such as the King James Bible and
the so-called. Teachers, Bibles.
These were the. King James translation along
with the concordance maps and marginal references.
The emphatic. Dialogue.
It featured a Greek. To English interlinear rendering
Leiser's translation, it placed English text alongside the
Hebrew. Also the Newberry Bible, which
had marginal references that drew attention to the
occurrences of the divine name Jehovah in the original
language, and Tischendorf's New Testament it had footnote
references. That clarified the variations.
In Ancient Greek Bible Manuscripts, Zion's Watchtower
Society arranged for a special printing of the New Testament by
Joseph Rotherham. This was the first.
Time a Bible was published bearing the society name.
In 1896, the corporation legally changed its name to the
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
This organization did not print and bind Bibles at that time.
Instead, it arranged with commercial firms to do that
work. However, it can be said that the
organization was an active publisher of Bible translations.
In time, the organization would take the production of Bible
translations into its own hands in December 1926.
The Watchtower. Printed and bound the Emphatic
Dyaglot in its Concorde St. factory.
It would be in 1942 when a complete Bible, the King James
with marginal references, was produced.
As useful as these various publications.
Were the organization was determined to convey.
God's Word in the. Best manner possible at Yankee
Stadium on Wednesday, August 2nd, 1950, then President of the
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Nathan Noor.
Revealed to the 82. 1075 in attendance that something new
had been obtained. The accumulation of years of
modern Bible scholarship was bearing fruit.
But now, by Jehovah's undeserved kindness, I have the extreme
pleasure of releasing to the international theocracy
increased assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses, the new Wow
translation of the Christian Greek Scripture.
The scholarship for the New World Translation would continue
with the gradual publication. Of the Hebrew Scriptures, the
Bible would be released. In sections over the span of the
next 11 years, culminating in a single volume produced in 1961.
The cost to obtain this complete New World Translation of the
Holy Scriptures, $1.00. At last.
A translation that sincere Bible.
Students could be. Confident in in the past.
Many of the brothers and sisters have had to use a Bible that
Christendom has translated, and because of Christendom's belief
in the Trinity, Hellfire, and other things, the brothers
continually, when they're reading the text, I have to ask
themselves a question. Does it really say this in the
original language? But now that they have a Bible,
whether it's in English or another language that has been
prepared by Jehovah's organization, by those who
understand the Scriptures, that breeds confidence.
And the brothers, then when they read the Bible, they don't have
to be thinking about does it really say this?
But they can start to think about what does this mean for
me? The original New World
Translation Committee left behind an amazing legacy of
Bible scholarship. These are some of the documents
produced by the committee. Over a 12 year period.
This is essentially the entire Bible, produced painstakingly by
manual, typewriter and hand. When you open these binders, you
gain insight on a tremendous work done decades ago, for
example, on the first page of Genesis, the handwritten note of
when the translation work began on this portion of Scripture.
11:30 AM Tuesday, February 12th, 1952, Genesis 24.
The. First occurrence of God's name,
Jehovah in the Bible. Detailed typewritten footnotes.
Handwritten marginal references of Romans chapter 1.
Handwritten edits that would ultimately be used in the final
production. Genesis 1. 4 After that, God saw
that the light was. Good Genesis 2/5.
Now there was as yet no shrub of the field found in the earth,
and so. The work would go through 66
books of the Bible. They did this work without
computers, without all the electronic reference items that
we have these days, and yet when we look at how they consistently
tried to translate God's word in a manner that would be clear and
understandable and yet still faithful to the original,
personally, it amazes me how they're able to accomplish it.
But on the other hand, I shouldn't be amazed because I
know it was Jehovah's spirit. That's that was with those
brothers that helped them in that regard.
All this work was. Accomplished by a committee of
Bible. Scholars who wish to.
Remain anonymous. Their desire was that this.
Bible should bring attention to God and not to them.
Without question, the translation's greatest
accomplishment is the conscientious effort to render
God's name Jehovah in all the places it would have been
featured in the original writings.
The New World Translation was not the first to present God's
name, but it perhaps became the first to be consistent with its
renderings in both the Hebrew and Greek portions of the Bible.
The Greek scripture rendering of Jehovah has brought criticism
from some The critics claim that Jesus.
Followers would have. Observed the Jewish superstition
that. Forbids the.
Speaking of God's name, it should be noted that other
translations of the Bible also render the name Jehovah in the
Greek Scriptures. The reason for doing?
So is very logical. And we see that Jehovah's name
clearly is in the Hebrew text. So if quotations are made from
the Hebrew Bible, they should be there in the Greek text as well.
So by Jehovah's people being honest in trying to do what they
see needs to be done, no matter what the world may offer as an
opinion, that builds confidence as well in the translation.
When we see how the newer translation really holds
Jehovah's name up on high, that warms our hearts and and helps
us to get to know Jehovah's as a person and as a friend.
The New World Translation did not go unnoticed by those
interested in Bible scholarship. This work reflects an honest
endeavor to achieve an understanding of the text that
is as accurate as possible. I have never discovered in the
New World Translation any biased intent to read something into
the text that it does not contain.
The most? Scholarly Bible ever produced.
Is the new World translation Reference edition of 1984
containing the most advanced study aids evidence of.
The depth of research available. Is the fact that it's some of
the organization's Bible schools.
Students will spend 5/2 hour sessions learning its marginal
references, footnotes, and appendices.
The results are more than just an academic appreciation of the
translation. The attention to detail touches
hearts. When the class finishes, usually
the reaction of the students is they're totally amazed.
And that is a joyous occasion when we see the practical
benefit that it's not an academic feature.
It's not just something to to look at for the sake of
studying, but something that will help them every day of
their lives so that they can search the scriptures more
thoroughly. This afternoon we released the
new World translation, The Complete Bible, both in the
Slovak and in the Czech languages.
Since 1961, the New World Translation has been released in
over 120 languages, with a printing of over 200 million.
The means. By which it is offered.
Includes printed books, sound recordings, Internet pages and
by means of video, sign languages for the deaf.
While it certainly stands as an achievement of.
Great scholarship. More than that, the New World
Translation has been instrumental in bringing
millions of honest hearted persons to an accurate knowledge
of the truth. All thanks and praise.
Go to the author of the Bible, our God Jehovah.
Right. Again, that was from jw.org.
If you were watching at home. I'm not sure exactly how all
that translated, no pun intended for you, but I had a little bit
of issue here in the building, but I think we got it through.
So thanks for the guys sticking with it and making sure that we
were able to show that. A word that stuck out to me when
I was listening to that, it was said again at the end, but it
was also prominent in the middle, as well as the word
honest. This has been honest and honest
translation that an honest effort was made.
And if I was to use a word to explain the New World
translation, honest would not be one of them.
In fact, it's intellectually dishonest to be able to present
this book as the Holy Scriptures.
For instance, it was mentioned that Jehovah's name was restored
in the New Testament. And the fact of the matter is
the name of Jehovah as it's found, the Greek, is not really
found in the New Testament, but it's been inserted over and over
and over and over again, which is why they made brief mention
of that. There had been some controversy,
but then created a straw man, meaning there was an argument
that really wasn't the argument of why people are talking about
the name of Jehovah, the New Testament, and they beat that
straw man and while not actually acknowledging the fact, well, go
to the Greek, it's not there. It's not the fact that that God
is not Jehovah and the God of the Old Testament is.
We understand that Jehovah God is the same yesterday, today and
forever. Amen.
But the fact of the matter is, is that the Jehovah Witnesses
over and over and over again have taken the Word of God and
literally cut and paste their own version to be able to fit
their own the doctrines. Again, the Jehovah Witnesses,
the Watchtower Society as it started in the late 1800s, but
then grew into the Jehovah Witnesses that we know today.
They started enlighteningly enough from that video by using
the King James Bible along with other Bible translations as
well. And yet to remember that really
up until somewhere around the mid 1900s, that became the
proliferation of translations that we have today.
But for the most part, people just read the King James Bible.
A lot of those, those other ones that were mentioned were really
Bibles that people just didn't use or wouldn't have had in
their homes. They were specialty Bibles or
things that have been made by some sort of academic that
really didn't have any kind of standing within churches
whatsoever. Particularly Tischendorf's
Bible, which I don't want to get in to, but the basis of using
Tischendorf's Bible, which is literally garbage.
Say, pastor, you shouldn't say something like that.
No, the signee Atticus, a codex that it was based upon, was
literally found in the trash of a monastery on Mount Sinai.
And So what? I'd say that it is garbage.
It's not even being hyperbole to be able to say so.
That's literally what it was that even those monks said.
You know, that's really not the Scriptures, but it suited the
needs of those who want to deny the Word of God and to make
changes to the Word of God. And again, that's what many of
the, really all of the modern translations are based upon
today. Tischendorf and the work of
others like Wescott and Hort. But the idea that this is an
honest translation is very, very much not true.
Now turning your Bible to Revelation chapter #22 because I
want to show you what's at stake when the word of God is
mishandled and treated in the way that's been treated by the
Jehovah Witnesses and other groups as well.
As you're turning there. Consider Proverbs chapter 30
verses 5:00 and 6:00. Every word of God is pure.
He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou
be found a liar. Listen, when God has spoken, man
is silent. That man is not allowed to
change the Word of God in any way.
We'll see that here in Revelation chapter 20.
In fact, let's go ahead and read that beginning in verse #17.
And it says, And the Spirit and the Bride say, come, and he that
heareth say, come and let him. That is a thirst come.
And whosoever will let him take the water of life freely.
By the way, aren't you glad that invitation was made to all of
us, that God calls all to repent and come to Jesus Christ as
Savior? Come and drink of the living
water. Verse #18 For I testify unto
every man that here at the words of the prophecy of this book, if
any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him
the plagues that are written in this book.
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book, of
this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of
life, out of the holy city, and from the things that are written
in this book, He would testify these things.
Say it surely I come quickly. Amen.
Even so, come Lord Jesus, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you all. Amen.
What does it said? Don't add to it.
Don't take away from it. Judgment is real for those who
add or take away from this book. And the Jehovah Witnesses have
haphazardly taken the Word of God and change it to suit their
own needs. By the way, may I remind you,
when it comes to the issue of the Word of God, it is to change
us. We don't change it.
The Word of God is written to change us, not for us to change
it when we come in contact with it.
You say, you know, I've not looked at life that way before.
Well, we don't just ignore that part of the word of God.
We say, well, I guess I need to change my thinking.
Well, we're not Bible correctors in the sense that any of us, if
I imagine taking our Bibles and started, you know, taking
scissors to it like, you know, Thomas Jefferson did.
Or anything like that. But at the same time, we can
also be guilty of editing the word of God in our own minor
way. But really, again, a way that is
ungodly when we take the word of God, say, you know, I don't know
if that applies to me. I don't think, I don't look at
life that way. That was written 2000 years ago.
I don't know that it's really applicable to be careful,
because that's the same spirit that you find here in Revelation
chapter #22 that God so greatly condemns.
Well, we also found from the video the fact that the New
World Translation is the culmination of the world finally
being able to have a Bible. Did you catch that?
That Christendom had actually messed up the Bible?
That really there is no Bible until the copy of the New World
Translation was given at that stadium, the Yankee Stadium in
the 1950s, ironically enough as well.
And again, the Jehovah Witnesses just can't help themselves in
being able to embellish and not tell the truth.
They were told that 80,000 people were there at Yankee
Stadium. I gave the exact number and
Yankee Stadium never held that amount of people.
You saw the photograph of all the people there.
So again, embellishing something that's so simple and so easily
verifiable. But we are promised in the Word
of God that the Word of God abides forever.
We are promised in the Word of God that while heaven and earth
shall pass away, the Word of God shall never pass away.
But the Jehovah Witnesses would contend to you that until they
came along, nobody had the Bible.
And that would mean that God would be untrue.
That would be that God was a liar, that He had not preserved
His word. And it was only by the work of
the brothers and sisters. It was only by the work of the
faithful and discreet slave, as we saw last week.
It was only by their work that the world had the Bible once
again. And certainly that is not the
case. I also make mention to you the
fact that they said that the translators were anonymous and
they use that as a way of kind of saying, well, isn't it good
that they wanted to give God the praise?
And academically speaking, anonymous work that cannot be
independently verified is not something to be proud of.
In fact, it's something that is quite the opposite of what would
be typical Bible translation or typical academic work.
They were anonymous for a reason, by the way.
The reason they were anonymous was because none of them had
real understanding of biblical languages.
Did you know? And I'm going to be careful with
my time because a lot of different things that I want to
get to you here this morning. And my brains kind of scrambled
a little bit more than normal this morning anyway.
Amen with everything that I was dealing with yesterday.
But there were six Bible translators that over the years
their names have leaked 1 by 1. Five of the six had no
understanding of biblical languages.
There was one who had a very rudimentary and very small
ability to understand biblical languages and understood, I
believe Hebrew, but yet not Greek, or rather Greek but not
Hebrew. I had that mixed up.
Let me read this. Eventually the list of 6
translators became known. Frederick Franz was the main
translator. Raymond Franz, who eventually
left the Jehovah Witnesses, wrote the following in his 1983
book, The Crisis of Conscience about his uncle.
So there's a man who left and he's writing about his uncle who
was the main translator of the New World Translation.
And he said this. His uncle, Fred Franz, was the
only one with sufficient knowledge of the Biblical
languages to to attempt translation of this kind, but he
had studied Greek for two years at the University of Cincinnati
and was only self-taught in Hebrew.
Frederick Franz, the primary translator, had only 21 hours of
classic Greek training at the University of Cincinnati and
only two hours of Biblical Greek or Konye Greek.
This information was provided. Listen to this, you say, well,
how did he know this? Well, Frederick Franz had
provided this information in 1911 in his autobiography when
he published his own college transcript.
So it's not even up to debate of how much he knew about it.
He had released this information at a time when he probably
wouldn't have thought his knowledge of Greek and Hebrew
would come into question some 40 years later.
It's important to note that Cornier Greek is the language
taught in theological seminaries for biblical studies.
The normal study course lasts for two years or 4 semesters.
And again, he had two hours, two credit hours of Coyne Greek
training and no training in the Hebrew whatsoever.
This means that the primary translator, the New World
Translation, was inadequately trained to perform the task of
Bible translation. The other five translator had
elementary acquaintance with the Greek at the most, ironically
enough, in the 1950s in the country of Scotland, Oh, where's
Diane? In the country of Scotland there
was a Jehovah Witness who was actually took the nation of
Scotland to court over the case of whether the Jehovah Witnesses
were actually a religion or not because of benefits from the
state and trying to be a conscious conscientious objector
in the military. He brought forth that he was
Jehovah Witness and Scotland, the UK said that's not a real
religion. So there was a trial that took
place. Frederick Franz was actually
called as a witness for the gentleman from Scotland.
He said this is, this is a man that I want to be put on the
stand to be able to show you the Jehovah Witnesses are
legitimate. Well, the solicitor, their
attorneys in the UK, the solicitor during the trial asked
Frederick Franz if he was familiar with Hebrew and Greek.
He said that he was, but only to a certain extent.
He was asked on the stand to be able to translate a verse from
Genesis chapter 2 from the biblical language into English
or vice versa. I'm not sure exactly which that
it was, but at any rate, the verse, which was fairly simple,
my understanding, would be used in Bible colleges or other
situations to be able to teach Hebrew.
He was unable even to translate that on the stand.
And this was the man that gave us the book that saved
Christendom, that we didn't have a Bible until the Jehovah
Witnesses come along. And the gentleman who says it
gives me extreme pleasure to be able to introduce to you the New
World Translation. And again, this is not the word
of God. This is not the Bible.
It may say Holy Scriptures on it.
It is not the Holy Scriptures. Now you might say, what are some
specific examples of errors in the New World Translation?
Now we have to move fast with our fingers here.
We'll be going back and forth because I do want to show you
some major doctrines. Understand this.
I'm probably going to show you 567.
We'll see how we do with time. But also know that this is a
very small sampling. It's just really to wet your
taste a little bit for some of the major issues that are there.
And so would you please first turn to John 11?
This perhaps could be one of the gravest of all.
John 11. Like hearing those pages of
those Bibles turn and that's nice.
I like that. John 11 and it says this.
You might be even be able to quote this.
In the beginning was the Word and the word was with God and
the Word was God. Now in your Bible, the word Word
is capitalized, meaning who is it talking about?
Talking about Jesus, isn't it? And if you're not sure about
that, you could continue reading and it's very clear it's Jesus.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him and without him was not anything
made that was made in him was life, and the life was the light
of men. And it continues on that.
There's no doubt He is the living Word and that verse 14
the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld as
glory in the glory as of the only begotten, the Father full
of grace and truth. There's no doubt it is Jesus
Christ. Now with this the new World
translation say about this because remember they do not
believe in the deity of Christ. They did not believe that Jesus
is God. Well, it says here in the
beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word
was a God. The word was a God.
Do you see how one letter completely changes the entire
verse? That it's not just the fact that
Jesus Christ was God, that he was just a deity among deities,
that he was a minor deity amongst the major deity of
Jehovah. Remember, they believe that
Jesus was Michael the Archangel until his incarnation.
And so just that one letter completely changes the tenor of
the word of God denying the deity of Christ.
Now go to John chapter 8, verse 58, John 858 and small G, yeah,
small G as well. That's exactly right.
John 858 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily I say unto you,
before Abraham was, I am. Now why would that be
significant? Well, we understand by looking
at the Old Testament that God was identified by the name I am
that I am. Remember the burning Bush in
Moses? I am that I am.
And that phrase I am was Jesus equating himself to be God.
You say, well, I mean, sure, you can say that, but it I mean, how
could you get that just from that verse?
We'll look at the next verse if you're not sure.
Then they took up stones to cast them, but Jesus hid himself and
went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and
so passed by. What?
What were they doing? They were stoning Him for
blasphemy. They understood exactly what He
meant. What does the New World
translation say? Before Abraham came into
existence? I've been that's a big
difference, isn't it? No longer equating him with God
the father being God the Father, God the son, God the Holy
Spirit. Just saying that Jesus pre
existed Abraham, meaning he could have been Michael the
Archangel because he's just well, he's been around a long
time as a as another created being that he was not the
creator God, that he was a created being created by Jehovah
God. And again, there is no father,
son and Holy Ghost. And so all throughout the New
World Translation, what are you going to find?
A denial of the deity of Christ stripped out of the Bible over
and over and over again. The New World Translation also
undermines Christ's role as creator.
Turn to Colossians chapter #1 Colossians chapter #1 and saying
what I just said, that he was a created being and not the
Creator. It strips him as his role of
Creator. Colossians chapter #1 Galatians,
Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians there in those
epistles, Colossians 115 through 17.
What does it say? Who is the image of the
invisible God? The first born of every
creature. Now when it's talking about
first born, we understand that it's talking about that he is in
rank and authority above all else.
We we see this term every once in a while, the first born and
it's the idea that over all, he is the first in rank and
authority. And you say, well, how can you
say that? Well, he's the image of God we
find in Philippians. He's the express image of God,
meaning this, that when you look at him, you're looking at God.
That's what it's saying. And it is reiterated in verse
16. For by Him we're all things
created that are in heaven and are in earth visible and
invisible, whether it be Thrones or dominions or principalities
or powers. All things were created by Him
and for him. And He is before all things, and
by Him all things consist. Who is the only creator?
God. God is the only creator.
But look at what the New World Translation says.
It says this. He is the image of the invisible
God, the first born of all creation because by him of all
about because by means of him, all other things were created in
the heavens and on the earth, things visible and the things
invisible, whether they are Thrones or lordships or
governments or authorities. Now look at this.
All other things have been created through him and for him
and he is before all other things and by means of him all
other things were made to exist. The word other is added over and
over and over again, meaning this well, He may have had some
level of involvement with creation on a lower level, but
he is a created being first He was created, then the other
things were created. First Jesus was created, then
other things were created. Again, absolutely stripping away
the the fact that Jesus is God and that he is creator God.
Then of course, distorting the fact that the Trinity, Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost. Again, a denial.
If you don't have Jesus as God, well, you can't have a Trinity
anyway. Can you strip away the Holy
Spirit and his deity as well? Genesis 1/2.
So if you're not sure where that is, flop it over.
All right, you'll find it here in a second.
Genesis 1/2. And the earth was without form,
and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Well, right there in verse #2 we find the Spirit of God, don't
we? And we know that as Genesis
chapter 1 continues, what happens that God says let us
make man in our image. And there are several references
to God in conference with himself saying us meaning
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, all with one another.
Well, New World Translation says this.
Now. The earth was formless and
desolate, and God's active force was moving about over the
surface of the waters. God's Spirit has been turned
into an active force that is much different.
Again, when we talk of the Holy Spirit, we don't say it, excuse
me, we say he. Why?
Because, well, he is God. And so he is not just some
lifeless spirit, some lifeless force that has move or even
active force, if you will. No, he is the Spirit of God.
But that verse literally has to be stripped away.
By the way, just to make sure we're clear, there's no
foundation in the original languages for these changes.
It's not the fact that, well, it seems like this has been
mistranslated over the years over and over again.
It's literally a willful ignoring of what the Bible
original languages have said. And simply it's saying this, we
don't like it, we don't want to defend it.
Crossing it out and putting something else in its place.
Absolutely dangerous to be able to do so.
Titus chapter 2, verse 13. We're not going to get to all
these today, and that's OK. Titus, chapter 2, verse 13.
I know I got you going to cover to cover here today.
We literally went from Genesis 1-2 to Revelation 2221, so I'd
say we've covered a lot of ground here in just an hour.
Titus 213. You got First and 2nd
Thessalonians, First and Second Timothy and Titus, all those
books with the letter T all kind of clumped together there in the
epistles. Titus 213 says this looking for
that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great
God and our Savior Jesus Christ. The great God and our Savior
Jesus Christ are one in the same.
There is an equality between the two.
But what do we see in the New World Translation while we wait
for the happy hope and manifestation of the great God
and of the Savior of us, Jesus Christ?
There's been a separation, A subtle separation, but a
separation that has been made nonetheless.
Where it says our great of the great God and our Savior Jesus
Christ, and it turns that one into two and saying, well, he's
not really God. He's a savior, but he's not God.
He's been a savior appointed by God.
Again, subtle, but yet real nonetheless.
I'm just going to read some of these to you for the sake of
time and so you can look some of these up later yourself.
Acts chapter 20 verse 28. It says to feed the Church of
God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Talking about the atonement and the blood of Christ.
Acts 2028 to shepherd the congregation of God, which he
purchased with the blood of his own son.
Again, talking about the fact that this is not the blood of of
Jesus Christ who is God, but rather that it is a created
being who gave his blood. Zechariah 12/10 they shall look
upon me who may have pierced. Now when it talks about me and
Zechariah 12/10, it's in reference to God because God has
been speaking. So when Jesus was pierced, that
shows from Zechariah 12/10 that He was God.
But here it says they will look upon, they will look to the one
who may have pierced again, meaning this that they're
saying, well, this isn't really God, that Jesus was pierced, but
he was not God. They take that away.
No foundation in the Greek to that.
They misrepresent resurrection and eternal life.
One of my favorites is John 2028 when Thomas says my Lord and my
God, he looks at Jesus my Lord and my God.
You say for some reason that has been retained in the in the new
world translation. We don't have time to read all
this, but this is the study notes that are found next to
John 2028 to make you understand why Thomas really didn't mean
saying that. Look at how much you have to
explain to not believe the word of God and over and over it's
found again Revelation the same and I think we have run around a
time. So what is wrong with it.
I'll just leave you with this. What's wrong with it?
Everything to answer the question, what is wrong with it?
Everything. And so we'll look next week at
comparing the beliefs between them as well as us as believers.
And then we'll talk about how we can actively and effectively
share our faith with them as well.
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