Standing on a False Bible
Can the Jehovah’s Witnesses ever win a disagreement concerning Jesus being Jehovah, or the Holy Spirit being the third person in the Godhead, or that man is composed of a body, soul and spirit, or there is a hell, or the doctrine of the Trinity without claiming that the translators of the K.J.B., N.I.V. Douay, Bishop’s Bible, Reformation Bible, Tindal, Wycliff Bibles and 100 others are all wrong in their Translations?
And that the 48 Translators of the King James, and the other 10 or so theologians that helped, and that commentators and translators like Matthew Henry, Adam Clark, Jamieson, Fausset, Brown, Erasmus, Walvoord, Zuck, Dr. Sproul, Wycliff, Les Feldick, Calvin, MaCarther, Bede and I can name a thousand others were all wrong in translating the Hebrew and Greek Text? And that they all misunderstood what they were translating.
That is what the Jehovah’s Witnesses stand on; nobody has gotten it right except us. Is that possible?
The term brainwashing was first coined in the late ’50s during the Korean War. It was used to explain how totalitarian regimes were able to completely indoctrinate American soldiers through a process of propaganda.
It was right after that that the Jehovah’s Witnesses decided to go from the teachings of the King James Bible to a new Bible called the New World Translation, and that twenty or so unknown and unnamed Translators who claim to fear and love the Divine Author transmitted Jehovah’s thoughts and declarations as accurately as possible. And that these unknown translators have straightened out 2000 years of false teaching. Is this possible? Since the 1950s, and since the 1961 edition, the Jehovah’s Witnesses have had three more copyrights on a Bible they claimed to “Transmit his (Jehovah’s) thoughts and declarations as accurately as possible.” That is, until 1971, when they came out with a new copyright.
Brainwashing is the theory that a person’s core beliefs, ideas, affiliations, and values can be replaced, so much so that they cannot think critically or independently.
So, here’s the question: For the past 2000-years, has the Christian community been misled by the commentors and translators of the K.J.B., Bishop’s Bible, N.I.V., and all the other Bibles mentioned above? And that from the early 1950s when the N.W.T. came out, the Witnesses have finally straightened everyone and everything out? Is this possible?