"the rnwt replaces "kyrios" (lord) with "jehovah" in translating romans 14:8 as follows:.
"for if we live, we live to jehovah,*+ and if we die, we die to jehovah.
* so both if we live and if we die, we belong to jehovah.".
It would make an interesting study to comb through the NWT and carefully examine the context of every insertion of "Jehovah" in the NT to see how many obvious instances of such glaring errors, exist. Maybe even publish the findings online.
Perhaps this site would be of interest: http://www.tetragrammaton.org/
Specifically look at http://www.tetragrammaton.org/copydivname.html
some have wondered if "captives of a concept" had anything to do with why the governing body changed their interpretation of the most important scripture in their theology at their annual meeting on october 6, 2012.. this is because the book places great emphasis on the societys interpretation of matthew 24:45-47 and then holds them to it while examining the organizations history to make sure that went on in its history fits their interpretation.
this comparison is essential to the societys claim to being gods organization.. their previous interpretation came from their former most imminent bible scholar president frederick franzs in his "gods kingdom of a thousand years has approached.
" their history comes from their "jehovahs witnesses proclaimers of gods kingdom.".
It may move their appointment to all his belongings to the future, but we must not forget that they also changed what that means. It used to be that "all his belongings" included:
These “belongings” include the growing “great crowd” of “other sheep.” - w09 2/15 p. 24 par. 3
Moreover, Jesus Christ has appointed the faithful and discreet slave “over all his belongings”—all Kingdom interests on earth. (Matt. 24:47) Included among these belongings are the facilities at the world headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses, at branch offices in various lands, and at Assembly Halls and Kingdom Halls worldwide. Included too is the work of Kingdom-preaching and disciple-making. - w09 2/15 p. 26 par. 9
These things have been moved to the status of "domestics" and their current responsibility:
13 Who, then, are the domestics? Put simply, they are those who are fed. Early in the last days, the domestics were all anointed ones. Later, the domestics came to include the great crowd of other sheep. The other sheep now make up the vast majority of the “one flock” under Christ’s leadership. (John 10:16) Both groups benefit from the same timely spiritual food that is dispensed by the faithful slave. What about the Governing Body members who today make up the faithful and discreet slave? Those brothers also need to be fed spiritually. Hence, they humbly recognize that as individuals they are domestics just like all the rest of Jesus’ genuine followers.
14 Jesus placed a weighty responsibility on the faithful and discreet slave. In Bible times, a trusted slave, or steward, was a house manager. (Luke 12:42) The faithful and discreet slave is thus charged with the responsibility to manage the household of faith. That responsibility includes overseeing material assets, the preaching activity, assembly and convention programs, and the production of Bible literature for use in the field ministry and in personal and congregation study. The domestics depend on all the spiritual provisions dispensed by the composite slave.
- w13 7/15 p. 23 pars. 13,14
Thus, while admitting (and properly so) that Christ has not yet appointed them over all his belongings, they take what used to be considered all his belongings and placed them under their current charge.
Back to the OP, though, a passage that comes to mind is 2 Cor 11:12-15:
But what I am doing I will continue to do, in order to eliminate the pretext of those who are wanting a basis for being found equal to us in the things about which they boast. 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself keeps disguising himself as an angel of light. 15 It is therefore nothing extraordinary if his ministers also keep disguising themselves as ministers of righteousness. But their end will be according to their works.
This may very well indicate that the disguise changes over time.
i will give you a hint.
1) jar of bread 2) stick 3) two stones.. and why were they placed in the ark of the covennant????.
i'm embarrassed to say, as a former elder, schooled by the.
Ex 24:12 - Tablets - Simply commanded to do so. (also Deut 10:1)
Ex 16:34 - Manna: so that it would be preserved.
Number 17:8 - Aaron's rod: a sign to the sons of rebelliousness so that their murmurings would cease and they may not die
This is all the Bible says as to "why" that I could find.
my mom told me that she, my brother and his wife really didn't like this new bible.. when i asked her why, she said they dropped the headings on the top of the pages and that just wasn't as good.. have you heard any pros and cons about the new good book?.
It's very simple... the new Bible has a more easy read in English. In reality, not much has changed. It's a matter of audience. Do you want a functional Bible that appeals to a wider audience? Or a technical Bible that stays closer to the original language? WTBTS seems to be trying to balance between the two, much like the NET, NIV and ESV. This revision gets them more toward the functional than the technical.
One thing they should not have done is added their biased commentaries. This is a big no-no in the translation community, but they seem to ignore that sort of thing.
I agree with whoever said they missed the running headings. They were a lot more useful than the outline at the beginning of each chapter. I undersand they got rid of it because it's a pain to update for each language. I get that. Makes sense. My take is: get rid of the outline, too. The outline contains paraphrased commentary, thus the term "governing body" got inserted in the outline in Acts.
she said, "so, what made you decide to study this book?
at this point, she opened with a prayer.
"...and some decide that such questions are best left to religious leaders and teachers.
A little tangential here, but of interest.
Just found this yesterday. The prophecies in Isaiah 65 are all about the paradise, or so say the JWs. In the New System, there will be no more death (remember, death is done away with, thrown into the lake of fire). So, have them explain Isa 65:20, right in the middle of all those prophecies.
The explanations in the publications are real eye-rollers.
http://krqe.com/2014/05/08/family-of-man-with-brain-injury-fights-building-plan/.
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https://www.facebook.com/savejimsview.
Phil 2:3,4: Do nothing out of contentiousness or out of egotism, but with humility consider others superior to you, as you look out not only for your own interests, but also for the interests of others.
Phil 2:20,11: For I have no one else of a disposition like his who will genuinely care for your concerns. For all the others are seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
i have spoken to %90 of mymfriends & family.. and i have found that there are 3 basic reasons why people stay.. .
1. god has always had an organization.
the organization has never been perfect, but he has always had one.. 2. i know a lot of things are wrong, bit where else can i go?
JWs who know TTATT stay in because they are trapped and figuring out an exit plan.
Yes. For some, the cost of leaving is almost too high, either emotionally or financially. For example, the financial cost of losing one's family through divorce is too high a risk. Only after one mentally accepts the risk can one actually pull the trigger on leaving. This is pretty hard for some people, including me.
up until 5 years ago, the co used to work up their own parts for specfic congregations in their circuits.
everything is up to script, in other words, every co in the country are givings the same talks in the local congregations they visit.
what got me to cringe is when he said at the meeting, trying to encourage everyone to pioneer this august; he said :" you know this october it will be 100 years since gods kingdom began ruling, remember what happen when joshua told the israelites to march around jericho on the seventh day, and what happened when they let out a great war cry?
I must be dense. Since when does the march around Jericho equate to 100 years of God's Kingdom ruling years? Are they making the Jericho march into a prophecy? This religion is getting weirder and weirder...
she said, "so, what made you decide to study this book?
at this point, she opened with a prayer.
"...and some decide that such questions are best left to religious leaders and teachers.
She said, "The majority of the time, the people who leave, at least in my observation, these are the people who don't want to WORK. They either don't want to participate in the preaching work, or they don't like the idea of submitting to authority. The people who get disfellowshipped, do it to themselves. They make the choice to be disfellowshipped."
This is almost a direct quote from a talk on apostacy. I wonder what actual knowledge she has as to why people leave? That they don't want to work? Really? Or maybe it's because they don't want to preach what WT says to preach because they believe in their heart it is wrong. That's my reason for not wanting to preach the JW way. And I have no problem submitting to authority, so long as that authority does not go beyond what is written.
she said, "so, what made you decide to study this book?
at this point, she opened with a prayer.
"...and some decide that such questions are best left to religious leaders and teachers.
From here, she went into a little diatribe about "Bible principles." She asked me, "How does God feel about abortion?" I said he hates it. It is murder. She said, "You won't find that in the Bible! Abortion is not mentioned in the Bible." I said, "Thou shalt not kill. Killing unborn babies is murder." She said, "but scientists claim that is not killing, that it is not a person." I disagreed with that statement, but was not going to go into a debate about abortion.
That's a surprising reply on her part. She's right, the Bible doesn't specifically mention abortions, but the Mosaic Law covered injury to a pregnant woman and the baby dies.
If men should struggle with each other and they hurt a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but no fatality results, the offender must pay the damages imposed on him by the husband of the woman; and he must pay it through the judges. But if a fatality does occur, then you must give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, blow for blow. - Ex 21:22-25
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