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The Jehovah's Witnesses - Way of Life Literature

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“Things published were not perfect in the days <strong>of</strong>Charles Taze Russell, first president <strong>of</strong> the WatchTower Bible and Tract Society; nor were they perfectin the days <strong>of</strong> J.F. Rutherford, the succeedingpresident. <strong>The</strong> increasing light on God’s Word as wellas the facts <strong>of</strong> history have repeatedly required thatadjustments <strong>of</strong> one kind or another be made down tothe very present time. But let us never forget that themotives <strong>of</strong> this ‘slave’ were always pure, unselfish; atall times it has been well-meaning” (<strong>The</strong> Watchtower,March 1, 1979, p. 24).3. <strong>The</strong> JWs have their own Bible, the New WorldTranslation <strong>of</strong> the Holy Scriptures.It was published in 1961 and is available in whole or inpart in some 15 languages with plans to expand thetranslation into 30 more languages.None <strong>of</strong> the five translators knew Hebrew or Greek. <strong>The</strong>main translator, Fred Franz, lied to a court in Edinburgh,Scotland, in November 1954, and said he knew Hebrew,but he failed a simple test (Ron Rhodes, Reasoning fromthe Scriptures with the <strong>Jehovah's</strong> <strong>Witnesses</strong>, 1993, pp.97-98). Franz was the fourth President <strong>of</strong> the JWs.<strong>The</strong> New World Translation perverts every passage thatdeals with the deity <strong>of</strong> Jesus Christ. Following areexamples:33

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