My interest in this revised NWT

by Doug Mason 37 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • paladin
    paladin

    The Index does not have the words Governing Body.

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  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    All the non-English NWT's are translations of the English NWT. I am slightly familiar with the way they "interpreted" the American Sign Language version of the NWT. They had long discussions on how to make it clear and simple and not necessarily retain the original essence of ancient texts (although they won't admit that).

    My wife attended a d got the impression that this decision would make it easier to expand Bible printing into more languages. So I imagine the NNWT is like ASL- translated from the NWT to simplify the thought with little consideration for the original thoughts from ancient texts (although they won't admit that).

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  • Terry
    Terry

    The biggest known money-maker in the publishing business is THE BIBLE.

    Announcing a "new and improved" Jehovah Bible will offset (they hope) the lawsuit payoff fiasco.

    If they can get either the Kardashians, Hillary Clinton or the ghost of Charles Taze Russell to pen the foreword, all the better!

    I was around when the original complete green New World Translation was released. (Previously it was dribble-drabbled out in volumes)

    It sold for ONE DOLLAR.

    I can guaran-damn-tee you this one will cost 7 million active publishers exactly enough to pay the lawsuits:smile:

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  • steve2
    steve2

    As with the words emblazoned on toothpaste packaging, "new, improved" refer primarily to the package, not the product itself.

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  • Splash
    Splash

    John 8:58 "Jesus said to them:"Most truly I say to you, before Abraham came into existence, I have been". "

    Col 2:9 "because it is in him that all the fullness of the divine quality dwells bodily."

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  • slimboyfat
    slimboyfat

    Ah so no change there then, thanks.

    Those are some pretty awkward turns of phrases if you ask me, but maybe they thought them too doctrinally sensitive to change.

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  • slimboyfat
    slimboyfat

    I wonder how Eph 1:4 "founding of the world" is translated.

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  • Splash
    Splash

    Eph 1:4 "as he chose us to be in union with him before the founding of the world, that we should be holy and unblemished before him in love."

    Splash

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  • slimboyfat
    slimboyfat

    Any change to obeisance in relation to Jesus?

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  • SloppyJoe
    SloppyJoe

    Acts 15:6 so the apostles and the elders gathered together to look into this matter.

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