Why was the Word misquoted

Sosthenes · Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Posts: 60

In the beginning was the Word.

But WHY was the Word misquoted? JOHN 1:1

This text `THE WORD WAS GOD' has been a problem for four presidents
of Jehovah's Witnesses. C.T. Russell thought he found relief when in
1876 N.H. Barbour, an Adventist, introduced him to Wilson's EMPHATIC
DIAGLOTT. Mr. Wilson never studied Biblical Greek in a college. He was
a follower of John Thomas, a `false prophet' and founder of the
Christadelphians. Thomas nor Wilson believed "THE WORD WAS GOD." In
the interlinear feature of his book which is no translation at all,
Wilson placed `a god' under theos. In his translation, however, of
theos, he wrote: "the LOGOS was God."

F.W. Franz. the current President of Jehovah's Witnesses, realized
the deficiency of the DIAGLOTT, decided to translate his own Bible
called THE NEW WORLD TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. Mr. Franz
never studied biblical or koine Greek. He did not graduate from any
college nor did he receive a Rhodes Scholarship as he claims. He
translates the phrase "the Word was a god." In his KINGDOM INTERLINEAR
he interlineates "god was the Word." Such a translation creates another
god. "To us there is one God."

F.W. Franz found a translation that agrees with his, THE NEW
TESTAMENT by Johannes Greber. (SEE MAKE SURE OF ALL THINGS p.489, 1965
revision.) Who was Johannes Greber? He is the author of another book:
COMMUNICATION WITH THE SPIRIT WORLD OF GOD. In it Greber writes on
page 300: "After I had convinced myself at the spiritistic meetings
that God's spirits speak to men through mediums, as they had spoken to
the early Christian communities, my first thought was to beg for full
enlightment on these problems concerning Christ. Who was Christ? My
request was granted, to the smallest details, and that knowledge
thenceforth constituted the most precious possession of my soul. In
what follows, I shall repeat the truths regarding Christ. His life,
and his work of Redemption, as they were imparted to me by the spirit
which taught them." The spirit said: "At that time you were told that
Christ is the highest of the spirits created by God and the sole one to
be created directly; Christ Himself was not God; for many false
prophets have gone out into the world" 1 John 4:1. Greber's
translation is directly from the demon world. He is quoted
in Watchtower publications. (See AID TO BIBLE UNDERSTANDING p. 1134)

In the Watchtower publications ALL SCRIPTURE IS INSPIRED OF GOD &
BENEFICIAL p. 327 it states: "Note what Hebrew and Greek scholar
Alexander Thomson has to say in his review of the NEW WORLD
TRANSLATION: "The translation is evidently the work of
skilled and clever scholars, " THE DIFFERENTIATOR, April 1952. This
sentence is another WATCHTOWER lie. The late Mr. Alexander Thomson was
not a Greek or Hebrew Scholar. He in fact did not even formally study
Greek or Hebrew in any school according to his co-editor Dr. Frank Neil
Pohorlak of Inglewood, CA. Mr. Thomson was employed in a bank in
Scotland and did not believe that Jesus was God.

from "Questions for Jehovah's Witnesses: "who love the truth" 2 Thess.2:10"

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