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The Six Honest Questions for your JW Friends That Deserve Honest Answers

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1.  How did the Watchtower Governing Body1 came up with a verse translated in John 1:1 as, “And the Word was a god (NWT) while the definite article “a” was not even present in the original Greek? If they will say that because the original Greek word says “theos” only and not “ho theos.”2 Then why are they not consistent with their “Watchtower rule” by rendering the following verses like John 1:6, 12 and 13 with “a god” since these also lacks the definite article?

2.  Why did the Watchtower Governing Body added the word “other” in Colossians 1:16-17 when the original Greek word does not even have it? Do they not follow their own “Watchtower rule” in translating the original Greek texts into English? Because in referring to their own The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures (KIT) they wrote the following statement:

“And now, in this year 1969 at the ‘Peace on Earth’ International Assemblies of Jehovah’s Witnesses, there is released to the reading public The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures…. However, in the interlinear literal translation of the Greek the English words are not taken bodily or directly from the New World Translation and placed under the appropriate Greek word. No! But under each Greek word is placed its basic meaning, according to its grammatical construction, whether this agrees literally with the New World Translation or not. What we as Bible students should want is what the original text says. Only by getting this basic meaning can we determine whether the New World Translation or any other Bible translation is right or not."3

3.  Why do Jehovah’s Witnesses interpret the word “beginning” in Revelation 3:14 as if Jesus had a “literal” beginning (“first thing created”) since the original Greek context does not warrant such? In fact, Revelations 21:6; 22:13 also has the Greek text archë in referring to Jehovah God but Jehovah’s Witnesses will not dare interpret this as “first thing created”. According to a Greek Bible scholar, archë means

“a pass. beginning or an act, cause as in Col. 1:18; Rev. 3:14, cf. Rev. 1:8; 21:6; 22:13. Christ is called the beginning because he is the efficient cause of the creation; the head because He is before all things and all things were created were created by Him and for Him (Jn. 1:1-3; Col. 1:16-17; Heb. 1:10).”4 

The apostle John penned John 1:1 by using the word archë making it read, “In the beginning was the Word.” And this made the Watchtower Governing Body render that clause “Originally the Word was” in their NWT 1950 edition. Although this is an awkward rendering of that clause the truth still remains that archë could also mean origin. Why do they lie to their members about this?

Even the Greek Septuagint of the Old Testament translated the Hebrew text in Genesis 1:1 as archë to stress Jehovah God being the ruler, the origin, the act, or the cause. Will the Watchtower authorities dare interpret this as “first thing created”?

4.  Jehovah’s Witnesses claim that Prov. 8:22 “literally” speaks of Jesus Christ being “produced” as the “beginning of [Jehovah God’s] ways” (NWT) implying He was “literally created.” According to Robert M. Bowman, Jr.:

“ 'Wisdom' is personified, not only in Proverbs 8:22-31, but throughout Proverbs 1-9. Nothing in Proverbs 8:22-31 suggests that this is a different ‘wisdom.’ Than is spoken of in the preceding and following chapters.  Therefore, if we take 8:22 to speak literally about Christ, we must also assume that Christ is a woman who cries in the streets (1:20-21), and who leave with someone named “Prudence” (8:12) in a house with seven pillars (9:1).”5

How will the Watchtower authorities respond to this?

5.  If the “great crowd” as Jehovah’s Witnesses claimed is on “earth” citing Rev. 7:9, 15. Then how will they explain the “great crowd” located in “heaven” based on Rev. 19:1?

6.  Why do the Jehovah’s Witnesses always say that there is already a “new light” in connection with their “previous” teachings and false prophecies (“old light”), since their founder C. T. Russell stated clearly that “A new view of truth can never contradict a former truth. ‘New light’ never extinguishes older ‘light,’ but adds to it.”?6

If you are a long time Jehovah’s Witness or studying to become one and wanted to be enlightened, please call or text 0917-5226494 / 0917-9959599. 

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Footnotes:

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1 The official Bible interpreters of the Jehovah’s Witnesses (aka the faithful and discreet slave)

2 The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, (Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, 1985), p. 1139 (Appendix 2A).

3 The Watchtower, November 15, 1969, p. 692.

4 Dr. Spiros Zodhiates, The Hebrew-Greek Key  Study Bible (AMG Publishers: Chatanooga, TN, 1990), p. 1812.

5 Robert M. Bowman, Jr. Why You Should Believe in the Trinity, (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1990), p. 60.

6 Zions Watchtower, February 1881, p. 3.

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