The greatest difference between Watchtower Religion and most Christians is Grace. The Governing Body has shown since I can remember "Salvation is not free" and bombard Witnesses with uncertainity by rejecting the concept of "Getting Saved" by believing in Jesus Christ! As pointed out by various apologist against Fred Franz bogus NWT, its a fact the Organization wanted people in fear! What good is a Witness if they have faith that Jesus died for their sins? That's why Fast Freddy thrieved off making JWs lives a living hell! The Watchtower is like Simon Magus of Acts 8, the Magician who loved glory and almost got cursed by Peter. According to Acts 8:18
There is nothing in the Greek that allows or justify's "excersise" or any way of conveying anything beyond "belief". Is that why the Watchtower changed John 3:16 and puts focus on James words about "faith and works"?
8 When Simon perceived that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money. 19 He said, “Give me this authority too so that anyone on whom I lay my hands will receive the Holy Spirit.”
20 Peter responded, “May your money be condemned to hell along with you because you believed you could buy God’s gift with money! 21 You can have no part or share in God’s word because your heart isn’t right with God.22 Therefore, change your heart and life! Turn from your wickedness! Plead with the Lord in the hope that your wicked intent can be forgiven, 23 for I see that your bitterness has poisoned you and evil has you in chains.”
New World Translation Pseudo Scholars removal of Grace to "how to work towards Salvation".
“For God loved the world so much that he gave his only‐begotten Son, in order that everyoneexercising faithin him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.”
One writer caputure's this perfectly and shows how twisted the NWT are!
It would be akin to taking something written like the following:
“The wife really loved her husband.”
and purposely altering it to read the following:
“The wife really worked at loving her husband.”
Did that change the meaning entirely? Yes it did. The wife went from truly loving her husband to having towork at loving her husband who, quite obviously, wasn’t very loveable without her constant effort to do so.
Do you get that nuance?
Let’s take a look, and I promise I won’t bore you, at the actual Greek word for “believe” here translated by the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society as “exercising faith”.
The Greek word is pisteuōn which is always translated as “believe” or “having faith” by other translators. The same Greek word is shown in the following scripture. I’m including the New World Translation of that word so that you can see the obvious mistranslation of this key phrase in John 3:16 which they quote often to justify their works based theology."
"...Why would the Watchtower change the meaning of the word in John chapter 3, in multiple cases rendering it as “exercising faith” and in other areas of the New World Translation render it as “believing” or “having faith”?
The reason is this: John 3:16 is such a popular scripture in the minds of most Christians that the Watchtower translators,aka Fred Franz, felt compelled to change it. To leave it as all other translators have rendered it would be to admit that simply believing in Christ is the only thing required of the Christian for salvation.
Can you see where the Watchtower’s own adherents would start questioning their works based path to salvation if John 3:16 wasn’t severely altered in meaning to include works as part of their salvation?..."
http://thewatchtowerfiles.com/jehovahs-witnesses-john-316/
