And since I'm posting here repeatedly (), let me put in a plug for the Bible program I use on a regular basis: e-sword. It's an excellent program, allows you to mark a text and check it in a whole bunch of translations. It also includes Bible dictionaries, commentaries, maps etc. And the best part is that it's free (mostly)! You can download the basic program from http://www.e-sword.net/downloads.html . Then you can download whichever modules you want, whether Bible translations, commentaries, etc. You can take as many or as few as you want. It has a "Compare" feature, where you can make a list of as single verse from every translation you have; also a "Parallel" feature, where you can select up to four translations and view text in them simultaneously. It's mind-numbingly easy to use. The only hitch is that there are a few Bible translations that can be added that are not free - the NASB and Amplified Bible modules are $20 each - but the program is worth many times that, in my opinion, so adding a few bells and whistles at cost wasn't a problem for me.
New World Translation: ignored once again!
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Poztate
The only hitch is that there are a few Bible translations that can be added that are not free - the NASB and Amplified Bible modules are $20 each
Didn't I see in small print at the bottom of the page that if you promised you would download and use the "New World Translation" that they would pay you $20.00
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Earnest
Why, WHY would the proprietors of Unbound Bible not want to include the mind-numblingly important New World Translation??? Why overlook this best, most accurate translation ever?????? What could cause them to not include this wonderful, accurate NWT, which has restored Jahoobie's invented name to places where it never was originally?????
Possibly it is because the Unbound Bible is a product of Biola University.
Biola University is a private Christian university founded in 1908. [They] offer 145 academic programs, ranging from the B.A. to the Ph.D., through six schools. All are regionally and professionally accredited and based on evangelical Christianity.
In their statement of what they believe (http://www.biola.edu/about/doctrinal_statement.cfm) they say :
There is one God, eternally existing and manifesting Himself to us in three Persons--Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is a person, and is possessed of all the distinctively divine attributes. He is God.
All those who persistently reject Jesus Christ in the present life shall be raised from the dead and throughout eternity exist in the state of conscious, unutterable, endless torment of anguish.
Why would they ever include a translation which does not have a trinitarian bias ?
Earnest
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trumangirl
Thanks for the suggestions, I must get round to buying a NASB or a NIV one of these days.
I'm wondering now what the story of Susanna is all about. Can someone please enlighten me?
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gitasatsangha
I doubt you will ever see the Watchtower put their bible online in html form. It's a big moneymaker for them in "donations.". As more and more transaltions ARE available free and online AND as more third world countries get cheap internet access, it will be harder and harder for the JWs to justify not putting all of their books online for free/donation basis.
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Atilla
I remember that there was this one guy in our KH who would use a different Bible(not sure which one) in his talks and comments at the meetings. Everyone looked down on him and I do recall several times that the elders would say, ah.....we recommend that you use the the New World Translation. So, of course in public JW's say they use all kinds of Bibles but the reality is that other Bibles scare them to death. I know now that if I read the NWT compared to other translations, in many places I get entirely different meanings. If I was still in, I would just bring a different Bible to every meeting and quote from it whenever possible, just to piss people off
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NeonMadman
I remember that there was this one guy in our KH who would use a different Bible(not sure which one) in his talks and comments at the meetings. Everyone looked down on him and I do recall several times that the elders would say, ah.....we recommend that you use the the New World Translation.
I used to do that a lot, bring different Bibles to the meetings and use them in commenting. Nobody ever criticized me for doing that, though I never used a different translation in a talk. The TMS schedule specifically refers to the NWT as the translation to be used in the School, so I didn't think it appropriate to buck that. Occasionally at the Book Study, the conductor would get into my having an alternate Bible, and would even ask me how this or that scripture read in the "other" translation I was using (often the Amplified Bible, or else Byington's translation).
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true_witness
Hello Satanus,
I read that you have the NWT in RTF format. Would you send it to me?? My e-mail is: [email protected]
Thank you very much
- L.A.
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Navigator
My favorite bible is the Jerusalem Bible. It is of Catholic origen and therefore has the "extra" books that protestant bibles lack. The reason I like it so much is because the O/Tpassages quoted in the new testament are referenced below on each page. There is an introduction to each book giving the history and scholarship. The scholarship is of the highest order. It is called the Jerusalem Bible because it was done by a group of catholic monks resident in Jerusalem.