Christian book distributors has an on-line website that has a chart you can access to check which bibles are the most accurate, closest to word for word and thought for thought, to paraphrases and the Amplified and NASB are considered the most accurate on the chart, the New Jerusalem around the middle and The Message way over on the other end of the chart. KJV is about halfway between New Jerusalem and NASB. There are quite a few bible translation rated. I don't know who does the ratings or what criteria they use. Crossings, the Christian book club has the same chart. They are not in any way connected to Christian Book Distributors. Maybe there is a common supplier of the chart. Both can be accessed on the web. Christian book distributors is:www.cbd.com Crossings is: www.crossings.com I have bought many bilbes and stuff from CBD. They have great bargains.
Which Bible Translation is Currently the MOST Accurate in Your Opinion?
by Frannie Banannie 90 Replies latest watchtower bible
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metatron
"Unknown" Translators?
It was about 95% Fred Franz with George Gangas on the committee for window-dressing because he was Greek.
The New World Translation is a biased, eccentric translation.
metatron
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scholar
metatron
Yes, 'unknown' because under the Deed of Arrangement when the NWT Commitee gave the then Christian Greek Scriptures to the Society for publishing it was conditional that the identity of the Committee was to remain anonymous even after their death. So, any names that are bandied about for ezample as claimed by Franz in his Cof C are purely speculation, rumour or gossip. Whatever input that Fred Franz may have made can only be speculation as no one has seen or read archival or documentary evidence or signed documents to that effect.
scholar
BA BA Hons, cand. MA Studies in Religion
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City Fan
Scholar,
BA BA Hons, cand. MA Studies in Religion
Did you get another degree in the last 12 hours??
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logansrun
scholar
BS in religion
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toreador
Scholar wrote. " I use the Word Biblical Commentary series and have often confirmed and marvelled at the accuracy of this brilliant translation produced by an unknown group of competent biblical scholars."
If they are unknown how on earth could you label them competent? By your definition there could be one or twenty writers since he/she/they are unknown. They could have simply plageurized other translations for 95 percent of it. The rest, they could have just wrote/translated it so it would conform to their teachings and sell more bibles to their book salemans/women so they could make more money. Isnt this why they keep writing basically the same books worded a little differently, to sell more literature. Or maybe they write more literature because they have to take out old light that is no longer true, for example take out chapters on blood that are no longer true. Somehow these older pubs which were gifts/flashes of light are now dim bulbs or have burned out completely. Would you agree?
There seems to be a lot of old books that are on the scrap heap that the Brilliant translaters of the NWT also wrote. If the old books now have what would be considered apostate teachings in them, then why not the Bible you affectionately call a brilliant translation by competent Scholars also be contaminated with false teachings. Or did God only give his spirit direction on this unknown group to translate the bible and not on any of the old literature.
I just would like your thoughts on this.
thx,
Toreador
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Odrade
oh c'mon "scholar." Every witness knows that Franz did most of the compilation of the NWT. And he never did a damn thing to dispel that idea while he was alive. So much for anonymity. Fred Franz' so-called fluency in all those languages was often held up as "proof" of the scholarship of the WTS.
Your loyalty is commendable, but misguided. The anonymity of any modern translation committee is a strike against it. Rather than "stealing glory from God," publishing names and credentials allows HONEST researchers to confirm the integrity of the translation being used.
Are YOU honest?
Odrade
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toreador
Ray Franz would have a better idea who had a hand in writing the NWT than probably anyone else here. Although there are some very in-the-know people on this board. I would put my money on Franz as having a major hand in it.
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toreador
I agree with you that one would have thought that Ray Franz would have known or at least have had a good idea as to the identity of the NWT Committee and he enjoyed at least one would think a close or intimate knowledge of his uncle Fred. However, it is somewhat puzzling that Raymond gave no evidence for his identity of the translators. In his Cof C he provides no documentary information in support of his claims, Why did he not have access to archival materials or to the Deed of Arrangement between the NWT Committee and the Watch Tower Society? Because Raymond does not supply evidence for his opinion then one can only conclude that it is only his personal opinion and is no more credible than anyone else's opinion. One may well just as well consult thje opinion of the Bethel janitor or housekeeper;
scholar
BA BA Hons cand. MA Studies in Religion.
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herk
scholar:
One may well just as well consult thje opinion of the Bethel janitor or housekeeper;
An excellent idea. Some of us who worked as "the Bethel janitor or housekeeper" are in a far better position than you to say who worked on the NWT. We were there, but obviously you were not. Some of us were the Bethel chauffer, the Bethel meal carrier, the Bethel gardener, the assistant to the Bethel receptionist, the Bethel internal mailman, the Bethel compositor, the Bethel pressman, etc. We have memories that you do not.
Your comments about Ray Franz indicate that you could also learn far, far more than you know from "the Bethel janitor or housekeeper" about the inner workings of the JW governing body. Then you would be inclined to acknowledge that Ray knows much more from his own personal experiences at Bethel than you know by gullibly swallowing the line fed to the public by the WTS.
herk