When you just look at the NWT bible, it is written to deceive the readers and filled with mistakes, additions and changes just to facilitate the JW's agenda, certainly a clear departure from pure truth!
Greek scholar and Bible translator Dr. William Barclay says:"The deliberate distortion of truth by this sect is seen in their New Testament translations. [John 1:1; Col. 1:15-17; Phil. 2:6]... It is abundantly clear that a sect which can translate the New Testament like this is intellectually dishonest."
Dr. Robert H. Countess, author of The Jehovah's Witnesses' New Testament and instructor in Greek concludes: "NWT is, in some ways, like milk, but milk with an admixture of arsenic. Milk by itself can be wholesome, but this kind of mixing could very well prove injurious to one's health." He further states: "In the opinion of this investigator the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures must be viewed as a radically biased piece of work. At some points it is actually dishonest. At others it is neither modern nor scholarly...From a purely literary standpoint NWT suffers from a woodenness of style that makes sustained reading of it a chore. This liability alone outweighs the sum of NWT's modest assets."
Author-apologist Robert M. Bowman, Jr. writes: "The whole work, but especially the New Testament portion...is carefully designed to import Witness beliefs into the text and screen out, as much as a seemingly literal translation can, the traditional Christian beliefs rejected by the Jehovah's Witnesses...The NWT is filled with faulty translations designed to make the Bible fit Jehovah's Witness doctrine.
...The case against the NWT must rest on the evidence from within the NWT itself; and this, as we have seen, is sufficient to warrant the conclusion that the NWT is an unreliable translation of the Bible."
Dr. Jack P. Lewis concludes: "This study is by no means a comprehensive review of all the merits or faults of the NWT. These examples are adequate, however, to show that it is unsuited for the use of people who want to know what the Bible really teaches."
Richie :*)
