Watchtarded "logic" in the RNWT!!

by DATA-DOG 24 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    I do not read Watchtower materials anymore, so I won't go look this up. BUT I believe your "copies of copies" thought from WTS is to explain how the Hebrew text was arrived at and it doesn't specifically mention the name "Jehovah" in the Greek text coming to them this way. For "Jehovah" in the Greek text, they say that a great apostasy occurred and we are supposed to forget that Jehovah protected or preserved the text long enough to assume the apostasy was successful enough to remove the name "Jehovah." Then the unnamed WT scholars simply compared the Greek texts to the Hebrew texts they were obviously referenced to and put "Jehovah" back into the Greek wherever they determined that it was in the Hebrew text according to the "copies of copies" idea.

    If that doesn't make sense, remember who we are dealing with.

  • DATA-DOG
    DATA-DOG

    They use the later copies of the GREEK text translated to HEBREW as justification for adding JEHOVAH. I really don't think that most JWs know this, or know that the Septuagint is different from the Greek NT writings. When they hear "Septuagint" they only think " Greek Bible ", which means NT to JWs. Then they "logically" conclude that the older Greek NT contained JEHOVAH. This whole added level of confusion is probably on purpose. It seems like the WTBTS writers, for whatever reason, purposely write in such a way as to confuse the reader, especially in the appendices of their versions of the Bible.

    The reader comes away thinking that WTBTS additions are justified by the oldest extant MSS, and they are NOT. Were they delusional and then things just snowballed, or was it intentional from the beginning? I am not sure that I know. I just know that even writing the abover paragraph was confusing as hell, and that I know much more than the BOE at my KH. That is a sad commentary on the WTBTS in my opinion.

    DD

  • frankiespeakin
    frankiespeakin

    To veiw the gospels as reporting actual events as they happened is a big mistake. There was no doubt many more stories written about Jesus. Different gospel tell different stories because the 4 gospels have different agendas, and should not be confused with factual reporting.

  • eyeuse2badub
    eyeuse2badub

    Thank God for the Catholic Church or we wouldn't have the modern Bible! And thank God for the Catholic monk or we would not have the modern name of God. Just wondering why God would so jealously and accurately preserve his WORD and not have HIS name so jealously and accurately preserved? JW's should love dem Catholics.

    Just saying!

    eyeuse2badub

  • AndDontCallMeShirley
    AndDontCallMeShirley

    Just wondering why God would so jealously and accurately preserve his WORD and not have HIS name so jealously and accurately preserved?

    Kind of puts the fallacy of "omnipotent" into perspective, doesn't it?

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