by Aussie Oz 25 Replies latest watchtower bible
Then we had a talk about how it's bad to have the Reasoning book bound with the Bible because people might think we added to the Bible. Oh the irony!
The Reasoning Book came out in 1985 (I think) so its full of old light maybe thats the reason behind the above! Does the RS still get used at all because of that?
wannabefree... i seriously doubt a photographer went out with the 'pioneers' and took that photo. I would think it far more likely to be a photo provided by the WT society for the new yorker story. It IS misleading the public. Do you think the WT soc is not capable of fostering a deception like this?
i have seen some of these bound bibles with the reasoning book, the ones i saw still had the 'new world translation' on the front. Maybe others replaced it with 'holy bible'.
my point with the photo is not whether the NWT is good or bad etc etc...
the point is 99.99 % of jws DO NOT use a bible like this in the door to door work. Those who do are trying to give a false impression.
oz
Off topic.....
SBSONE is screening Leaving the Cult at 8:30 pm Wednesday. I haven't seen it, but it sounds like something your kids might benefit from.
Cheers
Chris
"You can't judge a book by its cover."
My mom was given a black, leather-bound NWT with an addendum (Reasoning?) sewn into the back when she was baptized many years ago. It says "HOLY BIBLE" on the top of the cover, with her name at the bottom. This was during the psychedelic green NWT era.
I also met a brother who had returned from "serving where the need is greater" in the Bible Belt (Southern U.S.). He had trouble with householders spotting (and rejecting) his NWT, so he cleverly had it rebound with HOLY BIBLE stamped on it. He openly admitted that he disguised his NWT as a King James Version!
No doubt the WT supplied the photo and it is certainly deceptive. The bible pictured is unrealistically huge… nobody lugs something that heavy and bulky around in field service.
As it is, WT literature takes center stage: Both the Bible and that pesky Jesus guy are just stage props to sell magazines.
~Sue
the WT will do anything to PR things their way.
whenever it suits their need, they will water down the truth to make it more popular and not look extreme.
bible shit, is just another one of their shit in the bucket............ just like batman, they have a load of shit to use as theocratic weapons
See my post today.
It is being used door to door I believe to deceive householders into thinking they are "christian"
