Monday, April 2, 2018

The New World Translation Defended (April 2 2018)


Introducing a new blog dedicated to the New World Translation Bible, a Bible version that is unfairly criticized. Simply visit https://newworldtranslation.blogspot.com/ and right now it features the following articles:

And the Logos was a god, by John Samuel Thompson 1828
John does not teach that the Logos was God, in the absolute sense of the term; but in a subordinate sense. Those who contend for the supreme deity of the Logos, assert that the construction of the Greek, is such as warrants their conclusion; for say they, the word God, being the predicate of the proposition, should not have the article.

Origen's Subordinationist Trinity By Alvan Lamson 1865
Again: the Son and Spirit, he says, "are excelled by the Father, as much or more than they excel other beings." — "He is in no respect to be compared with the Father; for he is the image of his goodness, and the effulgence, not of God, but of his glory and of his eternal light; and a ray, not of the Father, but of his power, and a pure emanation of his most powerful glory, and a spotless mirror of his energy."

And the word was a God by William McGirr 1854
...mark how they leave the "a" out, but how carefully they attach it to Moses: "I have made thee a God to Pharaoh." And why so? Because they abhorred the idea of deifying Moses, but they wanted to deify Jesus, to make him the second person of their triune God. So much for poor human nature!

Plato, Philo, and Jesus as "a God" by Paul Wernle 1904
Of Christian writers, St Paul was the first to look upon Christ as such an intermediary being, higher than all the angels, yet lower than God Himself

Exodus 3:14: The Most Perverted Translation by John S. Thompson 1825
To make therefore, the I AM of the Evangelist, a reference to this passage of the Pentateuch is a most idle fancy, unsupported by the original; and what is more to the purpose, it is equally unsupported hy the Septuagint; the text book of the Gospel writers.

Alternate Interpretations of John 20:28
Milton's view of the passage may not improbably be as old as the time of Theodore of Mopsuestia, who certainly rejected the common interpretation of the passage.

300 Bible Texts Teach the Inferiority of the Son, by James Gifford 1820
There are above 300 texts according with our understanding, positively and by the clearest implication declaring the inferiority of Christ, against 11;” of which four are acknowledged interpolations and mistranslations.

The Timeline of the Evolution of the Trinity Doctrine by Hugh H. Stannus 1899
The origin and development of the doctrine of a Triune Deity in the Church is clearly traced to Platonic and other influences during the third and fourth centuries.

John 14:14 and the Missing ME
The word "ME" is also omitted from ancient manuscripts like A, D, K, L, Codex Petropolitanus, Codex Athous Laurae and the Byzantine manuscripts amongst others.

Trinitarianism and Unitarianism in the Early Church by Frederick A. Farley 1860
There is no pretence, that before Justin Martyr, A.D. 140, any clear evidence has come down to us of belief in the early Church of even the derived deity of Christ.

The Word's Elohim and One in Hebrew do NOT Prove the Trinity Doctrine
"The plural form does not indicate multiple gods, but God and the retinue of the divine court." Harper Collins Study Bible NRSV (cf. Zondervan NASB Study Bible, Oxford Annotated Bible-RSV, and Oxford Study Bible - REB)

Who Were the Three Men Who Appeared to Abraham?
In Genesis 18 and 19, do we have a multiplicity of the God Jehovah?
Gen 19:1,2, "And Jehovah appeared unto him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood over against him." ASV

The Hypostatic Union - an Enormous Tax on Human Credulity By William Ellery Channing
We complain of the doctrine of the Trinity, that, not satisfied with making God three beings, it makes Jesus Christ two beings, and thus introduces infinite confusion into our conceptions of his character.

What Writers of the Past Have Said of the Logos at John 1:1
If, in the introduction to his Gospel, John had asserted that Jesus was truly God, he would have proposed to his readers a Messiah whose very nature and properties were totally different from those of the person whom the prophets predicted, and whose advent the Jews eagerly expected.

"Why do you call me good? Nobody is good, except one, God." Mark 10:18

Only-begotten, Monogenes, Unigenitus and Monogennetos
"Unique" is a better translation than most, but it never quite explains how the subject is unique.

A Brief Look at S. Ayoade’s Arian Anti Trinity New Testament

An Early Christian Look at the Word "God."
When Men Could Become Gods

Romans 8:1 and the Case of the Missing "Now" in the New World Translation
When it comes to translating the Greek word in question, NUN, the NWT is actually closer to the Greek. The NWT uses just ONE word to translate NUN, while the NRSV needs FOUR english words to translate this one Greek word, and yet, only the NWT is singled out as tampering with the text.

George Vance Smith on Sharp's Rule (Titus 2:13) 1892
In the Epistles there are two passages which have been considered of great importance, as direct testimonies for the deity of Christ. They have not been noticed in the body of this work, chiefly from the desire not to burden the text with too many of such details; but a few brief remarks may be introduced here. The passages referred to are Titus ii. 13 and 1 John v. 20, to which may be added 2 Pet. i. 1 (R. V.)

The Word was with God and Polytheism, by Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle 1808
Any writer would be treated with just contempt who should talk of a man being with himself; and can we suppose that the pen of an inspired evangelist would express what from any other would be absolute nonsense?

Using Acts 28:4 to Understand How to Translate John 1:1 in the Greek
The construction of Acts 28:4, being a pre-verbal Predicate Nominative (PN) is a great way to demonstrate how to translate John 1:1c.

Is Jesus called GOD at 1 John 5:20, By George Vance Smith 1892
"it should be noted that precisely in St. John's First Epistle [O QEOS] ho theos, "the true God" so often certainly means the Father that it must be understood of the Father throughout the Epistle, unless we are to suppose that some incomprehensible change has taken place in the subject referred to by O QEOS." Theological Investigations, Vol. 1 by Karl Rahner,

Clement of Rome and the Trinity Doctrine, by Alvan Lamson 1865

Defending the New American Bible Against Catholics
Gratia Plena, Luke 1:28, the Spirit and Genesis 1:2 and the New American Bible

Good Friday: A Chronological Mistake? By James Gall 1882

The Easter Controversy by W.F. Adeney D.D. 1921

Easter Eggs in Past Customs and Pagan Tradition, 1896 article

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