The Society likes to keep the names of its writers and translators a secret because they don't have credentials. I suspect this time was the same. They probably just used the old NWT and translated the new one off that. When the NWT came out when I was a small child, they took a lot of heat from Bible scholars over this.
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As the old NWT was known as Fred Franz's translation ...
by slimboyfat in... will the revised version become associated with the name geoffrey jackson?
no doubt it will be kept a "secret" who did the work on the new version, just as it was a "secret" who translated the original nwt.
nevertheless since fred franz was the only likely candidate who could have attempted a bible translation at bethel in 1950 his name will forever be associated with the translation.
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Newly released New World Translation still full of numerous errors and abuses
by yadda yadda 2 inthought i'd start a thread discussing all the scriptures where the watchtower translation committee has taken liberties and abused verses they've translated in the nwt.. worst of all are the numerous places in the christian greek scriptures where 'jehovah' has been inserted where the tetragrammaton or any equivalent of it does not occur in any extant mss and where the context could just as easily mean, or even more likely mean, the identity being spoken of is jesus christ rather than the father.
although in many places out of the 237 in the nt where they have done this the identity is clearly or most probably the father (jehovah) as distinct from the son (jesus), there are dozens of occurrences where this is not the case.. here are a whole lot more scriptures abused by the translators of the nwt, copied from the freeminds website (article written j bowman, scholar):.
adding words.
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whathappened
There will be backlash from Bible scholars on this new translation. People always said to me, "you have your own Bible." It is really going to backfire on them now.
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Recording meeting
by Fading Begins infirst 30 min announcing a collection of bibles collected from r & f that is to go on display at bethel.
also accounts of how they "miraculously" received bibles that they didn't think they could get - eg.
geneva bible.. now - watchtower study review as there is no meeting tomorrow..
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whathappened
Great post. Good job guys!
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Recording meeting
by Fading Begins infirst 30 min announcing a collection of bibles collected from r & f that is to go on display at bethel.
also accounts of how they "miraculously" received bibles that they didn't think they could get - eg.
geneva bible.. now - watchtower study review as there is no meeting tomorrow..
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whathappened
Keep it coming...we are here and reading along with you. Thanks!
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Donations aren't coming in from Western Countries: more confirmation
by Julia Orwell inin talking to sparky the elder today (http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/263862/1/an-elder-called-me-hes-waking-up-and-knew-id-understand-nice-for-him-to-have-a-friend) i found out he did the accounts for our congregation for years.
he said very rarely did the congregation meet its expenses without some well-off brother chipping in a few grand here and there.
the elders would also make up the shortfall.
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whathappened
It ain't gonna get any better either. Yeah!
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An elder called me...he's waking up and knew I'd understand...nice for him to have a friend!
by Julia Orwell inhere's a bit of back story on my dealings with this nice man, who i will call sparky:.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/248936/1/an-elder-called-me#.uk4ykiami6m.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/249982/1/getting-serious-for-julia#.uk4zd4ami6m.
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Good chat you had. He will be one of us soon.
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Hubby's going to the big meeting instead of celebrating our anniversary
by KariOtt inmy hubby just informed me that he wants to attend the "big" meeting saturday instead of celebrating our anniversary.
seems i was right when i accused him that the cult means more to him than i do.
asshole.
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whathappened
I concur, he is an ass.
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Sat on a heated oven aged 5
by usualusername intoday i was looking at a video on youtube and a woman complained of being abused.. .
suddenly i remembered my older brother (aged around 10) getting me as a 5 year old to sit on a heated oven door.
went to accident and emergency to get fixed.
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whathappened
I was raised in a somewhat dysfunctional family also. I am sorry for all us kids who had toxic family members. I hope you are ok now.
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Sat on a heated oven aged 5
by usualusername intoday i was looking at a video on youtube and a woman complained of being abused.. .
suddenly i remembered my older brother (aged around 10) getting me as a 5 year old to sit on a heated oven door.
went to accident and emergency to get fixed.
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whathappened
Wow, he died young. May I ask how? Was it because of his cruel nature?
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Sat on a heated oven aged 5
by usualusername intoday i was looking at a video on youtube and a woman complained of being abused.. .
suddenly i remembered my older brother (aged around 10) getting me as a 5 year old to sit on a heated oven door.
went to accident and emergency to get fixed.
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whathappened
How traumatic for you! I am sorry to heaa this happened. What sort of person did your brother turn out to be? Did he understand what he was doing at the time?