Which is the real bible, King James or the Jehovah's witness bible?

Answer 1

Neither.
Many different versions of the Bible exist, with different translations from the original Greek, Hebrew and Latin texts. The New American Standard Version is among the best at accurately paraphrasing the ancient languages into understandable English, while retaining the actual meaning and intent of the original.

But the NISV, as well as the KJV and any other Pretestant Christian Bible has removed two books from the Latin Bible (1st and 2nd Maccabees ). The Latin Bible also removed two more books (3rd and 4th Maccabees) as well as other apocryphal texts, including but not limited to:
The book of Enoch, The Epistle of Jude, The Book of Jubilees, the Epistle of Barnabas, Irenaeus, Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria, as well as the Assumption of Moses and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, which are included in no biblical canon.

All versions of the Bible delete books and name them apocryphal. All versions of the Bible has mis-translations, accidental and sometimes purposeful errors and deceptions. However, the Jehovah's Witness Bible is the only one to add extra books contained in no other version.

So... the real Bible? There isn't one. The real Bible is whichever one works for you personally, is used by your church or denomination, and allows your faith to grow. There is not one true Bible.

Answer 2

It depends on your point of view. The Jews would say the Holy Torah and that the Christians merely created their own scriptures to support the teachings of their cult. Interesting as that is the same think claimed about JWs. The King James was created because the Genesis Bible was considered too strict. and even then, it took four revisions during a 150 year time period, before it sufficiently matched the teachings of the Church of England to be "Authorized".

There were many other Bibles before it, during it, and since it. They have continued to revise it to where now God's Name no longer blemishes it's pages.

One may not like the NWT, but when they were using the King James for the first 50+ years, the witnesses did something that other churches didn't do than or now. Encourage every member, young and old, they have their own copy and make full use of it. You as a witness child to name the books of the Bible, and they will do a very good job of it. As children in any other church and they will be hard pressed to name any of the Books of the New Testament. If you are going to raise children in a Christian religion, any Christian religion, they should be encouraged to have their own copy of the Bible and to read it while they are learnign to read. By the time their reach the age of understanding, they will than have a good basic knowledge of it. Unfortunately, they may also have some hard to answer questions, such as why are teh wisemen represented as arriving to find the newly born Christ, when the Bible says he was a boy in a house?

Answer 3

King James Version Bible 1611 published, at 303 years is 1914 CE and since this is an excepted translation for the end times, what will mankind do with it or about it. The posibilities are endless. John 8:32; 17:17;

What did Jehovah's Witnesses do? How many languages?

What has been done by others? How many languages?

Answer 4

King James.

Answer 5

Well the Jehovah's publish thier own version of the bible called the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.
To THEM I guess it is the "real" bible

Answer 6

since the founding of the dead sea scrolls and viewing over 6000 other manuscripts the jehovahs witness bible is a more accurate literal translation then the kings james version.
after 300 years of translation and a better understanding of ancient hebrew and greek The NEW WORLD TRANSLATION is far superior then the king james version.
if you do a side by side comparision you will see for yourself.

Answer 7

Wouldn't the real Bible be the original one written in it's original language almost 2000 years ago?

Answer 8

Only a person who understands Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic can determined which Bible of all the Bibles out there is the most accurate.

Answer 9

Of those two, King James. The Jehovah's Witness use a translation that was made to support their doctrine. Kind of backwards don't you think? For example, John 1:1 reads "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." The New World Translation reads "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a God." While by itself this doesn't seem like much of a difference, it really is. The JW's believe that Jesus is not God, but the Archangel Michael. This is an assertion that is NOT supported Biblically.

Answer 10

King James. It tells the truth, but I haven't actually looked at the other bible so I guess I wouldn't know for a fact, but from what i have heard they believe, I guess I assume......