Do Jehovah's Witnesses use the same King James version of the Bible that Christians do?

Answer 1

Trinitarians repeatedly pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian. Trinitarians use an artificial, trinity-specific definition of the term "Christian" which excludes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century pretended that Christ's followers were Atheists(!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.

Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Both secular dictionaries and disinterested theologians acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion.

The Trinitarian arguments are intended to insult and demean Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than to give a Scripturally accurate understanding of the term "Christian".

In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all three times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"

(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.

(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”

(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name


So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:

(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded


Incidentally, Jehovah's Witnesses do use and distribute the traditional King James Version (entirely without edits) which includes the divine name "Jehovah". Interestingly, the newest KJV distribution by many religions excises God's personal name completely!
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Answer 2

The question has already been answered quite well by my fellow Witnesses of Jehovah.

I would like to address the nature of your question: "Do Jehovah's Witnesses use the same King James version of the Bible that Christians do?"

That is like asking "Do Americans eat the same kinds of food as people do?"

We are Christians.

To the one who said we don't believe 1:John 5:7 as wriiten in the 1611 version, TRUE! That is because the phrase "the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one" is not in the original Greek; the King James translators added to support the unbiblical trinity dogma.

Note the following renderings of this passage, unrelated to Jehovah's Witnesses:

So we have these three witnesses-
Footnote:
Some very late manuscripts add in heaven—the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. And we have three witnesses on earth.
New Living Translation © 1996 Tyndale Charitable Trust

For there are three that testify:


Footnote:
Late manuscripts of the Vulgate testify in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. 8 And there are three that testify on earth: the (not found in any Greek manuscript before the sixteenth century)
New International Version © 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society

For there are three that testify:

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version © 2001 Crossway Bibles

For there are three that testify:
New American Standard Bible © 1995 Lockman Foundation

And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is the truth.
Revised Standard Version © 1947, 1952.

And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is the truth.
American Standard Version 1901

For they that bear witness are three:
J.N.Darby Translation 1890

For there are three who testify:
Hebrew Names Version 2000

quia tres sunt qui testimonium dant
Jerome's Latin Vulgate 405 A.D.

Answer 3

Yes-and it is the Cambridge King James Bible,(1942) The New World Translation has been revised in 2013. I prefer the King James Bible because it does NOT support the false teaching of the trinity. Just read Jesus's own words in John 20:17, and John 14:28. Matt.6:9 where Jesus tells us to pray to our father- our Father as in Jesus's Father and ours.-KJV

Answer 4

Jehovah's Witnesses prefer to use the New World Translation of the Bible in their meetings but they actually print and use several different Bible translations/versions including the original (1611; as printed in 1942) King James Version as this is the Bible that most of them were using when they first became Jehovah's Witnesses and they will always be grateful to God for revealing the truth to them in spite of the errors that it contains. We believe that God is strong enough and wise enough and discerning enough to preserve enough truth in any translation/version of the Bible that the man who truly wishes to find God and do his will can find Him and learn it. Other translations that are/have been published by or are quoted frequently by Jehovah's Witnesses include the American Standard Bible (1901; as printed in 1944), The Bible--An American Translation (1935), The Bible in Living English (1972), The New Testament (1941; as printed in 1947), The New Testament--A Translation in the Language of the People (1937; as printed in 1950), The New Testament (1941; as printed in 1947), The New Testament--A New Translation in Plain English (1963), The 'Holy Scriptures' (1982; as printed in 1949), Catholic Challoner-Doway Version (1950; as printed in 1941), The Emphatic Diaglott (1864; as printed in 1942), The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures (1969), The Jerusalem Bible (1966), The Holy Scriptures According to the Msoretic Text (1917), The Holy Bible (1954; as printed in 1956), The Christian's Bible--New Testament (1928), The Greek Septuagint Version, A New Translation of the Bible (1934), The New American Bible, Saint Joseph Edition (1970), The New English Bible.(1970), The New Testament in an Improved Version (1808), The Emphasised Bible (1897), The Revised Standard Version, Second Edition (1971), The Authentic New Testament (1958), The Simple English Bible--New Testament, American Edition (1981), The Twentieth Century New Testament, Revised Edition (1904), The Good News Bible--Today's English Version (1976), The New Testament in Modern Speech (1929; as printed in 1944), and the Holy Bible, Revised Edition (1887). As you can plainly see, they are very serious Bible students and spend much time pondering over and meditating on the scriptures.

Answer 5

I don't know where people get the idea that the NWT has been changed since the 60s. My mother still has her first NWT, as well as the ones she has gotten since them. The Bible gets used a lot so they wear them out every few years.

As for the King James Version, in researching it, I noted that it was revised 6 six times over a 150 year period to keep it current with the beliefs of the Anglican Church of England.

Answer 6

That's a big negative. If the Jehovah's Witness used the original King James they wouldn't be arguing against 1 John 5:7 which clearly distinguishes the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as described in the Trinity.

Answer 7

I have the KJV, and the NKJV, Jehovah's Witnesses have the printing rights to print the KJV and do so.

From you question, why do you differentiate "Christians" and Jehovah's Witnesses?

All teachings from Jehovah's Witnesses come from the bible.

Answer 8

Yes, we use the King James and the New World Translation.. We can use any translation.

Answer 9

they use the New World Translation which is their own interpretation of the bible just as the King James version is an interpretation

Answer 10

Jehovah's Witnesses ARE Christians.

Any translation of the Bible is good, they all say the same thing.

I'll answer any serious Bible question you may have using any translation of the Bible.

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