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Jesus Is Jehovah/Jehovah Is Jesus
by snowbird in
1. watchtower
2. bible
http://www.str.org/site/news2?page=newsarticle&id=5725.

i fought against this with all my wts-trained power, but truth prevailed.. any way you cut it, it comes out the same.. peace and strength in your search.. sylvia.
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"The Scholastic Dishonesty of The WATCHTOWER" as a pdf?
by VM44 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
does anyone know if "the scholastic dishonesty of the watchtower", published by caris, has been made into a pdf?.

there has been so much excellent material posted here as pdf files, but i forgotten if the above has been posted.. if it has been made available, is a currently active link for it that works?.
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Is there a list of changes made in the New World Translation?
by Grammy in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i would love to be able to show them to my husband so he can check them for himself since he thinks the only changes made were that the nwt is in a "modern language" he gets quite upset with me when he tells me he has read the bible front to back several times and i say "yes you have, but the bible you are reading has been changed from what the scriptures in other versions of the bible say" thanks in advance for any help with this.grammy
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New Generation Understanding
by momzcrazy in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
hello everyone, i am new here and newly freed from the snare of wtbs.

my sister, also newly freed, said our mom told her at the annual meeting there was a new "understanding" on the generation confusion.

it is now the annointed that will not pass away.. has anyone else heard this?
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At long last - Six Screens of the Watchtower website now Open!
by Incognito in
1. jw
2. friends
hi everybody.. i've been a long time lurker here (as are sooo many others.

further to following mouthy's thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/129936/1.ashx , i noticed that the 'six screens' website is finally shown as being able to be 'checked out'.. i believe minimus first posted about this some months back.

some here have been waiting & asking about it ever since.. http://www.sixscreensofthewatchtower.com.
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What other ancient Greek Manuscripts contained the divine name?
by yaddayadda in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the society in appendix 1a of their 'kingdom interlinear translation of the christian greek scriptures' refers to nine other greek manuscripts as containing the divine name, and they quote from jerome as referring to certain 'greek volumes' containing the tetragrammaton.

can anyone shed any light on what these greek manuscripts and volumes are and their dates of writing?

here is what the society says in full: .
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John 1:1 in Coptic Translation
by slimboyfat in
1. jw
2. friends
apparently there has been quite a stir in jw apologetic circles recently about the translation of john 1:1 in the early sahidic version of john.

i don't know if this has been discussed here before - if someone could give a link to a previous thread they know about on the subject that would be great.

here is what i gather: .
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Morning worship comment from Bethel
by Smoky in
1. jw
2. friends
i received this email from a friend of a friend:.

'comments made by brother lett at morning worship today.. the comments were about the work we have of bearing witness of the truth.

" again, the angels make note of it.. we knock at the fifth house and again no one is home.
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The word [other] in NWT
by apostate man in
1. watchtower
2. bible
sorry this is so long, but here is a series of e-mails i sent to the jehovah's witnesses united site and their response.

it has to do with the nwt inserting the word [other]in col 1:16,17 and phil 2:9. pick it apart as you may.

you may need an hour or two to read all of it.. (my original e-mail).
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Prof. Jason BeDuhn letter on the NWT/KIT (part 1)
by bj in
1. jw
2. friends
some days ago i asked you if someone wrote to prof j. buduhn who is quoted in the watchtower 1 february 1998, p. 32. here's what i received from him.

as every translation does.

jesus one can say "my god.