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by bite me 9 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  bite me

  I was thinking something. The other day, a poster had a good suggestion in watching the .org in seeing what they change on its site. Well, on that thought, something (maybe the Holy Spirt ) gave me a very interesting thought. the world wide web as great as it is in sending information to a zabillion people at one time, can deceive just as many people. I'll try to state this so it makes sense not only to me, but to all of you reading this too. Right now my mind knows what it means but my fingers can't talk right now. lol Okay, so the JW's have their own bible translation hard copy and online. The society knows that lurkers read the net and maybe even their online bible. Maybe, just maybe the org will try to pull a fast one and change up their online bible version a little to make it seem correct. If you think about it, is possible. Then they can change it up anytime they want to, who'd know? The changes would be so subtle, yet so wrong. Since a lot of JW's don't read their whole bible anyway, they may not even notice the change.

  This post is probably making a lot of you scratch your head and say "what" . If I can rethink my thoughts I'll come back and fix this up a little. Unless it makes sense now. lol
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  VanillaMocha73

  You make sense. As in the subtle changes between the Bible I had and the new paperback NWT - just quiet things like removing the parentheses in Col 1:15......
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  bite me

  Is that the section where "other" is added?
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  civicsi00

  Yeah that's the text where they added the word [other]. Have they removed it??
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  5go

  Col 1: 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; 16 because by means of him all [other] things were created in the heavens and upon the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, no matter whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All [other] things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all [other] things and by means of him all [other] things were made to exist,

  Nope still there.
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  Fatfreek

  Okay, so the JW's have their own bible translation hard copy and online.

  Where is the online NWT?

  Len
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  5go

  http://www.watchtower.org/bible/
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  VanillaMocha73

  In the new paperback NWTs they did not remove the other, they simply removed the parentheses that were an admission that they had added the word. Now they would like people to believe that it has been there forever.
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  Fatfreek

  You can prove to yourself whether the online NWT bible has changed (at least during the last 4 years). Use the WaybackMachine web site at http://www.archive.org/web/web.php.
  
  First, go to the Society's page of the Bible in question. In this case I chose Colossians since it's the subject mentioned above.
  Next, copy the url address of that page. You'll find that field near the top of your browser page. In this case, it's http://www.watchtower.org/bible/col/chapter_001.htm.
  With that copied into your Windows clipboard memory, go to WaybackMachine .
  Next, paste that WT bible link into the proper field, directly to the left of the "Take Me Back" button.
  Finally, click the "Take Me Back" button.
  That should bring up an index page that will list all the snapshots it's taken of that web page over the years. In this case, you'll see that so far, 18 snapshots have been taken since 2004.
  
  Interestly, you'll see that WaybackMachine has detected 6 changes (noted by the asterisk * character) during that period. However, before you get too excited, I've not seen any changes in the text of Colossians itself. I only compared the earliest captured page with the latest one. What I see that has changed is some header text, that prior to Colossians and that following it. To compare the Bible text itself, I used a program called CompareDiff Pro.
  
  Does this mean the Society doesn't change their publications without notifying the flock? Ha! We all know the answer to that one. Their problem nowadays is that there are checks and balances which are far easier to use than in the old days prior to the internet. They know that.
  
  They know if they deceptively change any of their publications, including this online one of the NWT Bible, we'd pounce all over it and expose them like we always do.

  Len Miller
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  VanillaMocha73

  oh... can you apply that to the pedophile articles? Link - http://www.jw-media.org/region/global/english/releases/beliefs_practices/071121.htm and they blocked it....