by problemaddict 2 6 Replies latest watchtower bible
PLEASE....this FB link that every JW in the world seems to be commenting on. It needs some responders. Please take a look.
Just search for "The Divine Name King James Bible"
Also I am interested in investigating who is the group that commissioned this bible to be made.
Here is the first email response I received from Jack Davidson with explinations and subsequently emails he generously took time to answer some of my questions.
I was curious about this Bible too when my husband ordered it in 2012: However after numerous back and forth emails I had no doubt a connection at some point with the JW, at least in many ways. He at one point described " others in Christendom" and used other phrases such as that which so very similar. However, the person corresponding insists that these people who created, published this DNKJB are not from the WT and insist they are only replacing the name. They claim they do not place it in the New Testament like the WT does ( check this out) I didn't ask for permission to publish this part of his letter to me, so I can't publish any more than this first excerpt just to try to help. The FAQ is included in the body of the email.
We have endeavored to express the reasons behind the way that we have 'explained' who we are. This is on our website in our FAQ. http://www.dnkjb.net/faq_dnkjb_online.htm#who_dnkjb
We are constantly second guessing our answers because our motive is to communicate effectively. Our goal is to direct people to the source of authority, Jehovah, and to direct them to the ideas and basis for our assertions about the Divine Name. We must confess that we get wordy and we are working to revise our website to answer 'better.' Until we give a better answer, we encourage the reader to understand that they have the burden of examination, to search out for themselves if Jehovah belongs in the Bible, and without relying on the expertise of the translators. There is too much controversy and the stakes are too high to leave it in the hands of 'experts.'
Psalm 10:4
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
'Experts and those authorized" removed the Divine Name from their translations. We insist it is they that should be examined and their translations set aside. To emphasize this we insist on shifting the focus to the wrong thing they have done rather than the right thing we have done. In the case of the DNKJB, we restored the Divine Name only, we did not revise the AKJV, with the exception of three places in the New Testament and we provide an explanation at those places. Thus it is not really 'rocket-science', something beyond the common man, to determine the truth of the matter.
For the reason that men of 'authority' have removed Jehovah from their own bibles, we eschew the premise that the acceptance of the Divine Name within the text of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible requires much knowledge, if any about us. Indeed the Bible record itself often will not indicate who the writer was, especially throughout Psalms is this readily apparent.
In reading back what I have written, it sounds a bit off-putting. Do not take it as against you. This is just our 'position.'
This Bible retains John 1:1 as "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." .... and other pesky little things the NWT added convenient words to, or removed.
I don't know if it's lead by a JW or not.
I do commend it for at least one thing. When I looked at some of the places the NWT uses Jehovah in the new testament, it does't. YHWH is purely an old testament thing. The JWs have no good reason to replace greek words that do NOT mean Jehovah with the name "Jehovah". It only serves to reinforce their doctrine.
The person I communicated did quote this verse to me, and said this was a challenge to a JW to try to defend.So It is a bit of a mystery to me as to the background of those who put together that Bible. I have to believe that there is at least some influence along the way from the WT teachings.
Also have you read the 2001 translation online? That is even more like the NWT but not quite.... still some differences.
Problem Addict, have you read the Borean Pickets site?
Interesting. I don't know. In readin gtheir explanations and even in their partial e mail response....my BS meter is going off.
the JW apologists seem to be out in droves on this FB thread. I would highly suggest those that are inclined, actually attend.
An odd thing I have discovered, only by accident, and not by any objective scholarship, is the use of semantics when it comes to the application of the Tetragrammaton in theological discussions.
The Watchtower, and its apologists, such as they are, use the expression "Divine Name" when this subject is broached.
All other groups, who are unconnected with the Watchtower indicate a preference for the expression "Sacred Name". Indeed the movement that first coagulated around this controversy, members of whom were Churches of God followers instituted what is now generally referred to as the Sacred Name Movement.
This movement began in an embryonic state around the turn of the last century with the name Yahweh first appearing in the first decade of the 1900s. At this same time the Watchtower was more concerned with insisting that the world as we know it would end in 1914.
I have a copy of one of the SNM Bibles. It is in fact called the Sacred Name KJV.
