Twisted Scriptures and other Shenanigans! Part 3

In the JW Bible, “The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures,” (I am using the purple covered version—the new one is blue) on page 18, the WT states that in the New Testament whenever you see the Greek words “Lord” and “God” and the NT verse is referring to a verse from the Old Testament, the WT is justified in changing Christ and God to Jehovah. The New Testament has been preserved in more manuscripts than any other ancient work, having over 5,800 complete or fragmented Greek manuscripts, 10,000 Latin manuscripts, 9,300 manuscripts in various other ancient languages and there is not a single case of the word Jehovah appearing in any verse. So the Watchtower has changed the NT 237 times with zero manuscript backing. But if you are familiar with this blog, you know that the JW’s have no problem with changing scripture. See Presto Change-O! Parts 1, 2, and 3.

My point in this blog is to look at two verses in the WT Bible, “The New World Translation,” to see the WT violating their own rule.

First, Romans 14:11, “for it is written: ’As I live,’ says Jehovah ‘to me every knee will bend down, and every tongue will make open acknowledgment to God.’” (NWT) If you look on the Greek side you will notice that the word ‘Jehovah’ is not there—what you find is the word ‘Lord.’

In this verse, the WT has changed ‘Lord’ in, “As I live, says the Lord,” to “As I live, says Jehovah,” in keeping with their rule I mentioned above. Romans 14:11 is an obvious reference to Isaiah 45:23, “Turn to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God and there is no other, I have sworn by Myself, The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness And will not turn back, That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance.” NWT

What is very interesting is that Paul makes a second reference to Isaiah 45:23, this time at Philippians 2:10-11. “So that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground, and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.” NWT

The Philippians reference to Isaiah 45:23 is clear—the word ‘Lord’ is there at the end of verse 11, but the WT has not taken out Lord and inserted Jehovah—according to their rule. Why have they ignored their rule and not made this the 238th time they have inserted Jehovah into the NT.

Well, if we make the substitution I think it will be apparent. “So that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground, and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Jehovah to the glory of God the Father.”

Oh, oh! Jesus is Jehovah. Totally against WT doctrine! Therefore, the WT has ignored their own rule and not made the substitution. Intellectually dishonest to say the least!

Twisted Part 4 is here.