Even if the version of Bible I'm using support the existing of hell,heaven,Jesus as my savior,etc....
Would you give me a Bible teaching classes and let me use my own Bible to check up every thing you actually tell me with out make me look (or read)at your own Bible version.
2007-01-20 01:46:47 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
JWs will eagerly accommodate your wishes in this respect because they hope this will help you to eventually come to their Kingdom Hall meetings. That's where you will notice a difference with translations used! Whilst they might anxiously point you to bits in their literature where other translations are used, notice how none of these are at odds with the point in the paragraph! They only use other translations for verses that are not controversial. Where there is an important doctrinal difference, they might mention it, but procede to lambaste the translation. Generally, though, they simply ignore other translation points of disagreement. Few JWs are aware of just how different their NWT is to most other translations because virtually all of the King James generation are dead.
It's also a red herring for them to say they get lots of scholarly support for their NWT. Just ask them why they used Johannes Greber's translation as support for their anti-trinitarian stance. (They knew in 1956 that he and his spirit-medium wife used spirits to translate, yet implied they only discovered this in 1980.) Ask them why many scholars they used to cite in support are now no longer quoted by the Society. (Clue - threats of legal action if the Wt. Soc continued to imply they supported the Wt. Soc). And do take up the challenge to compare Greek texts with the NWT of the Greek Scriptures, using their 'Kingdom Interlinear Translation'. This contains bona fide Greek texts, such as of Westcott and Hort, renowned Catholic scholars. But just look at their English column to the right of the Greek/English transliteration, and see what liberties they've taken!
2007-01-22 02:22:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
By all means, do so. We WANT people to just study the Bible no matter which one. If you think about it, in essence, there is really only 1 Bible. The ONLY difference in our Bible is that is has Jehovah's name, doesn't speak old english, & minus a couple books or so that were nott in Bible canon. But yours will basically say the same thing as ours. When/If you start studying, you will start to see that your Bible doesn't even support the idea of hellfire, Jesus=God, etc. Then after however long it takes you, you'll WANT to use ours. All it is is translated so its easy to read, & it has Jehova'hs name as it was intemded to be. Who knows? Depending on the version YOU have, we may even be able to show you Jehovah's name in YOUR Bible. Can't argue with tthat, huh? :) Anyway, hope all goes well in your "taking ing of knowledge."
2007-01-21 01:06:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Consider that the witnesses used Bibles like the King James for 60 years before the NWT. Tens of thousands of them, reading the whole Bible, giving feedback.
2007-01-21 05:10:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses reject traditional Christian doctrines such as the Trinity, eternal torment in hell and the immortality of the soul.
In the early 1870s, Russell organized a Bible study group of Second Adventists in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. An interest in Bible prophecy was sparked, in part, by Jonas Wendell. In 1876, Russell met Nelson H. Barbour and subsequently adopted Barbour's eschatology. Barbour had predicted a visible return of Christ for 1873, and when that failed to occur, he revised the prediction to 1874. Soon after the second disappointment, Barbour's group decided Christ had returned invisibly to Earth in 1874. They differed from most Second Adventists by teaching that all humankind descending from Adam would be given a chance to live in a paradise on Earth. The year 1914 was seen as the final end, marking a forty-year period from 1874.
A number of doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses differ from that of mainstream Christianity. Possibly the most controversial doctrinal differences relate to the nature of God and of Jesus, particularly the Jehovah's Witnesses' rejection of the Trinity doctrine. Other differences involve their beliefs concerning death and judgment. Many of these doctrines are considered heresy by mainstream Christian denominations and, as a result, many label Jehovah's Witnesses as a cult.
2007-01-24 12:47:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Hi. I have had Jehovah's witnesses at my door on numerous occasions. Although they have tried to get me to look only at their Bible and their translations, they have still sat down with me when I refused and insisted on my own. This does not, however, mean that they are open to hearing what you have to say. At one time the Jehovah's witnesses were visiting me weekly, sometimes more than once a week. I would sit and talk with them for about a half hour. Then they just stopped coming. They haven't been to my door in 20 years. They must have decided they were wasting their time with me.
2007-01-20 09:55:40 · answer #5 · answered by cindy_enstein 3 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses are very happy to use almost any bible translation to discuss the bible with almost any householder in almost any home. A very tiny fraction of "tribal" bible translations do not simply replace the personal name of God with an impersonal term (such as "Lord" or "God") but actually replace the name "Jehovah" (or "Yahweh" or similar) with the name of a specific pagan false God; Jehovah's Witnesses will not use such blasphemous so-called "bibles".
This "question" is perhaps focussed on "New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures", which is distributed by Jehovah's Witnesses. There are more than 130 million copies of this modern-language bible in print, in dozens of languages.
The entire text of NWT is freely available at the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses, and a personal printed copy can be requested at no charge (see below, in "Sources").
Jehovah's Witnesses certainly like NWT, but they are happy to use any translation which an interested person may prefer, and in fact Jehovah's Witnesses themselves distribute other translations besides NWT. Jehovah's Witnesses attach no particular infallibility or inspiration to NWT.
Since the same manuscripts used by the NWT translators are still widely available for study, and since there are dozens of alternate translations for comparison, anyone who chooses to use NWT does so informedly.
It seems that the vast majority of the criticism against the New World Translation is actually as a proxy for blind hatred against Jehovah's Witnesses. The hatred must be "blind" since secular experts of biblical Hebrew and Greek have consistently refused to condemn any particular verse or phrase as an unacceptable translation. Instead, it is religionists with preconceived theologies who bigotedly insist upon particular wordings, since these are necessary to prop up the shakey tenets of their false worship.
(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.
It seems signficant that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are the ones best known for their worldwide preaching work. Yet Jesus commanded that ALL who would call themselves "Christian" perform this public work:
(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 you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.
2007-01-21 08:10:51 · answer #6 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Why would you want to have a JW come in and give you Bible lessons? You say that the Bible you have teaches about Hell. You won't hear a word about that from them!
You wont hear that there is 1 God. They deny the deity and personality of the Holy Spirit and they feel that Jesus is a second God. These things the Bible does not say anything about, but the JW's go hard on these.
2007-01-22 06:37:25 · answer #7 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I enjoy using many bibles. I have several that I refer to.
Understand though that we are not coming to your door to argue.
Everyone has to stand or fall on their own faith in God.
If you are willing to look at context along with what your bible says. You will learn the truth.
Example John 1:1
In English you can not be with someone and be that person.
My NAB in the footnote states that God (2) is a quality or an attribute and not an identity.
Vs 3, says Jesus is the channel by which all things are created.
A letter came by messenger, doesn't mean the messenger wrote the letter.
vs 14, Jesus has the glory of the Son of God, not that of God.
John 17 says that Jesus gives his glory to his followers,
Jehovah says he will never give his glory to anyone.
If you look at the whole bible, you will learn the truth.
2007-01-22 11:48:33 · answer #8 · answered by TeeM 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They absolutely will discuss religion and do religous studies with you using your own Bible. I studied and attended meetings regularly for about one year, and always used my own NIV Bible.
2007-01-20 11:54:17 · answer #9 · answered by ♥ terry g ♥ 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely!
We encourage you to use what you understand!
If you can't get local help, use our study link below.
We will willingly work with any recognized bible version.
2007-01-20 09:55:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋