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Can a Bible translation be a work of the Devil??

Discussion in 'Bible Versions & Translations' started by Mexdeaf, Mar 20, 2011.

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  1. Askjo

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    Mexdeaf, I agree with what Amy answered. See her #94 post under the thread, "Words, do matter."
     
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    Another salvation?
    Are you saying that they are saved by accepting "another" Jesus Christ?
     
    #22 Askjo, Mar 22, 2011
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    I second with your question.
     
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    I would have no problem sharing the gospel using the New World Translation. It is a terrible agenda driven translation, but the gospel is there.
     
    #24 NaasPreacher (C4K), Mar 22, 2011
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    Hmm, pride, arrogance, human agendas.

    Sometimes we give Satan too much credit for that which fallen man does on his own.
     
    #25 NaasPreacher (C4K), Mar 22, 2011
  6. Amy.G

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    John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.


    All lies originate with Satan. I think you underestimate your enemy.
     
    #26 Amy.G, Mar 22, 2011
  7. NaasPreacher (C4K)

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    My biggest enemy is me, my flesh. I mess things up pretty well myself without Satan's help.
     
    #27 NaasPreacher (C4K), Mar 22, 2011
  8. Amy.G

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    Do you think Satan sits around all day twiddling his thumbs?

    Job 1:7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.


    1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:



    It's a naive sheep that thinks he doesn't have to fear the wolf.
     
    #28 Amy.G, Mar 22, 2011
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    Nope. They actually were saved in reading the Scriptures. There's enough true even in the NWT that they read the Gospel and were saved. Of course they did not get sucked into the JW cult but instead quickly found good Bible teaching churches. :) It was just that the NWT was the only Bible they had.
     
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  10. Mexdeaf

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    This is starting to get off of the point of the OP- lets get back to it.

    Assuming as Amy does that Satan was the moving force behind the NWT, how does one account for the fact that the Gospel, in fact IS found in it? I have personally witnessed a person led to the Lord via a NWT. If indeed Satan was behind it, he must have done a lousy job.
     
    #30 Mexdeaf, Mar 22, 2011
  11. Amy.G

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    No. As I said in an earlier post, the most effective lie is the one that is mixed with truth.
     
    #31 Amy.G, Mar 22, 2011
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    I don't know about that. Sometimes outright lies can be pretty persuasive tools.
     
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    Ok then, when does an error in a translation amount to a lie? And how many "lies" should we allow in a translation before we determine it is from the Devil?

    Then there is this- the KJV has "lies" in it also, yet it remains the Word of God, does it not?
     
    #33 Mexdeaf, Mar 22, 2011
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    Huh? The NWT says that Jesus was "a" god. Is that a lie?

    Where does the KJV lie? :confused:


    But hey, if you want to accept the NWT as valid, be my guest.
     
    #34 Amy.G, Mar 22, 2011
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    First please define "valid". And secondly, until you do please don't put words in my mouth.

    Did I say the KJV lies? I said it has lies in it.
     
    #35 Mexdeaf, Mar 22, 2011
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    You really don't know what valid version is?
    The NWT says Jesus was "a" god. Is that valid?



    Ok. Please give an example.
     
    #36 Amy.G, Mar 22, 2011
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    Examples of lies in the KJV (or any accurate Bible text) would be King Herod lying to the magi about wanting to worship the Christ babe, Peter's three denials, Satan's "thou shalt not surely die", etc.
     
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    DING, ding, ding we have a winner!
     
    #38 Mexdeaf, Mar 22, 2011
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    I know what I consider a "valid" version. I do not know what your definition is.

    I think of you refer back to the OP you will know what I think of the NWT. But, again- SL is the one who made the statements referred to in the OP, and he was not speaking of the NWT when he made those statements.
     
    #39 Mexdeaf, Mar 22, 2011
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    :rolleyes::rolleyes:
     
    #40 Amy.G, Mar 22, 2011
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