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  Best Bible Translation?

  by mywifeisaJW in

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  2. bible

  my wife has been a jw for about 10 years (we have been married 15 years).

  over the years i have tried various strategies to deal with this, which i won't go into here...except that i have agreed to "read the bible" with my wife...and i get to pick the translation.. what translation would be best recommended to help highlight the errors of the nwt and jw thinking in general?

  i have seen here that today's english version has been recommended...anything else?

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  Here is a link to a review of Bible translations by Jason BeDuhn in his Truth In Translation, 2003. Maybe Scholar can produce another.

  http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1yfx7/BDR.htm
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  Best Bible Translation?

  by mywifeisaJW in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  my wife has been a jw for about 10 years (we have been married 15 years).

  over the years i have tried various strategies to deal with this, which i won't go into here...except that i have agreed to "read the bible" with my wife...and i get to pick the translation.. what translation would be best recommended to help highlight the errors of the nwt and jw thinking in general?

  i have seen here that today's english version has been recommended...anything else?

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  One other thing, if your wife says that the NWT is the most accurrate translation. Ask her for the reference that say that. Look at the whole reference. Most of the statements of accurace is for the Westcott Hort (used in the KIT), that they contribute to their own NWT erronously.
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  Best Bible Translation?

  by mywifeisaJW in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  my wife has been a jw for about 10 years (we have been married 15 years).

  over the years i have tried various strategies to deal with this, which i won't go into here...except that i have agreed to "read the bible" with my wife...and i get to pick the translation.. what translation would be best recommended to help highlight the errors of the nwt and jw thinking in general?

  i have seen here that today's english version has been recommended...anything else?

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  Along with what ever you use, have the Kingdom Interlinear Translation (KIT) that you use side by side. It is revealing that the Greek to English translation does not fit the NWT English. The KIT is only the New Testiment and is their own publication. So seeing the errors side by side is quite revealing.

  Also make sure that you understand some Bible basics, like ( ) around a word or words is inserted. It was not there in the orginal text and is suppose to add to your understanding. But it is not suppose to change the meaning. Helpful when reading Colossians 1:15-17.

  It would help if you did some reading on how the WTS uses proof text to support their beliefs and how they twist the scriptures. Example of this would be Proverbs 8:22. They use this to prove that Jesus was created. This chapter is dealing with wisdom. If you do not know this going in and do not read the whole text, it is easy to be fooled.

  Above all to not use other WTS publications to study. Stay with the Bible, an authorized version and compare it to theres. Ask why the difference and look at the context in which they have change meanings. Pray on your own before and after.

  Good Luck
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  How does the society explain 5 more partakers at the Memorial?

  by lv4fer in

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  2. friends

  i think it's kind of funny.

  how do they explain more people this year than lasts?

  i thought the number was suppose to get lower as they died off?

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  Somewhere I read that for a "Anointed One" to be replaced, the original Anointed One had to die apostate. Can anyone help me with this.
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  what sin is facial hair supposed to lead to?

  by little1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am curious as to why jws aren't allowed to have facial hair.

  and why, then, was it okay for jesus?.

  inquiring minds want to know.. l1

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  I am curious as to why JWs aren't allowed to have facial hair. Why not? And why, then, was it okay for Jesus?

  IMO it was okay for Jesus, because he was not trying to sell WTS literture.
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  Positive about jw

  by one in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are many thing i dont regret about jw

  learning from jw about cristmas is one of them

  the jw were very open about cristmas, going against the "system" require some strenght and that in itself attracted many to the jw org.

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  My point is that you use an example of being anti-Christmas as a reason to be positive. My point is that just about everything can be traced or seen in other religions and cultures. Ours of the weeks and months come from the names of ancient gods. When you point to those pagan customs I worship none of they worshipped. Christmas is a time that I give thanks that God came to be a sacrifice for me, since I can not do anything to save myself. My celebration of Christmas is Christ centered not Horus oriented.

  I would say that the WTS is putting the pagan back in, where Christianity has been trying to remove the pagan enfaces for 1700 years.
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  Information on Validity of 1914 Date

  by Bluegrass Tom in

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  here are a few facts that i have recently discovered by doing some research.

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  Bluegrass, are you telling us that there is nothing valid to the 1914 date? Triple A
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  Extrem earthquake near Indonesia (8,9), thousands of dead people

  by Erich in

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  2. current

  an extrem strong earthquake happened recently in the indian ocean near island of sumatra.

  level 8,5 - 8,9. no contact to many islands and coasts anymore.

  no phone to the maledives and other touristic islands possible.

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  List of the eight worst tsunamis, this one looks like it is going to fit somewhere in the middle.

  http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/tsunamis/tenworst.shtml

  [ t s u n a m i s : e i g h t w o r s t t s u n a m i s ] Date Location Dead 1883, August 27 Krakatoa, Indonesia 36,000 1707 Japan Up to 30,000 1896, June 15 Sanriku, Japan 27,000 1755, November 1 Lisbon, Portugal 10,000 1933, March Sanriku, Japan 3,000 1960, May 22 Hilo, Hawaii, and Pacific Islands Over 450 1979, December 12 San Juan, Colombia Over 250 1946, April 1 Hawaii 173
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  Positive about jw

  by one in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are many thing i dont regret about jw

  learning from jw about cristmas is one of them

  the jw were very open about cristmas, going against the "system" require some strenght and that in itself attracted many to the jw org.

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  http://de.essortment.com/christmaspagan_rece.htm

  Few people realize that the origins of a form of Christmas was pagan & celebrated in Europe long before anyone there had heard of Jesus Christ.

  The answer lies in the pagan origins of Christmas. In ancient Babylon, the feast of the Son of Isis (Goddess of Nature) was celebrated on December 25. Raucous partying, gluttonous eating and drinking, and gift-giving were traditions of this feast.

  If you want to use the through out Christmas because it has things that are simular to pagans, than why stop with Christmas. In the story of Isis, we are introduced to resurrection and water baptism. So those should be equally discouraged.
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  Why They Quit Celebrating Christmas.

  by Blueblades in

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  2. friends

  this from the proclaimers book, page 199.. when shown ( who showed them?

  ) that celebrating the birth of jesus had actually become of greater interest to people than the ransom provided by his death; that the revelry of the holiday and the spirit in which many gifts were given did not honor god; that the magi whose gift - given was being imitated were actually demon - inspired astrologers; that parents set an example for their children in lying by what they told them about santa claus; that "st. nicholas" ( santa claus ) was admittedly ( who admitted this ) another name for the devil himself; and that such festivals were, as acknowledged by cardinal newman in his essay on the development of christian doctrine, "the very instruments and appendages of demon - worship' the church had adopted ---------- when made aware of these things ( who made them aware ) jehovah's witnesses promptly and permanently stopped having any part in christmas celebrations.. so, let me get this straight, from 1919 ( when they were supposedly selected by jesus as the faithful and discreet slave,) they continued this demonic practice of celebrating christmas until a member of christendom, cardinal newman and not jesus, showed them , made them aware, some seven years after jesus saw fit to select them as his slave, that all this time they were celebrating a demonic holiday.. who is lying to whom?

  stop blaming the parents and everyone else for your own blatant bold faced lies!.

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  Sorry ColdRedRain, miss understood your post. Triple A