They would rather wash their robes then follow Gods commandments

by bite me 12 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  Narkissos

  bite me,

  I didn't mean to offend you and I'm sorry if I did. I had in mind two of your recent threads:

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/150399/1.ashx
  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/150775/1.ashx

  which basically boil down to the same issue of textual criticism.

  Again, if you want to find out and discuss the NWT real flaws (and there are many) you'd better compare it with modern versions which have taken into account the results of 19th- and 20th-century textual criticism (ascertaining an older state of the NT texts by comparing the best, i.e., earliest available manuscripts) rather than older versions like the KJV (and NKJV) which rest on a very late and shaky textual basis.

  Counter-intuitive as this may be (a more recent Bible reflects an older text) that's how it works as a rule of thumb.
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  Shawn10538

  than, thAn, THAN!!! Not spelled the same. Not pronounced the same. Different words altogether.
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  bite me

  bite me,

  I didn't mean to offend you and I'm sorry if I did. I had in mind two of your recent threads:

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/150399/1.ashx
  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/150775/1.ashx

  which basically boil down to the same issue of textual criticism.

  Again, if you want to find out and discuss the NWT real flaws (and there are many) you'd better compare it with modern versions which have taken into account the results of 19th- and 20th-century textual criticism (ascertaining an older state of the NT texts by comparing the best, i.e., earliest available manuscripts) rather than older versions like the KJV (and NKJV) which rest on a very late and shaky textual basis.

  Counter-intuitive as this may be (a more recent Bible reflects an older text) that's how it works as a rule of thumb.

  Nope, you did not offend me at all. I also don't want to look like a critic here. As I become more aware of the differences in various translations it almost comes to a point of where to really look for answers. That's all I wanted my posts to point to is questions I was being sincer in wanting to have answered.