Exposing Jehovahs Witness

   The official name is The Watch tower Bible and tract society. They believe themselves to be the only true witness of Gods truth and Jehovah is one of many names used for God,so hench the name Jehovahs' witness. The name Jehovah is a hybrid of the names Adonai and Yahweh created from medieval Christian Hebrew scholars,Jews never used the name in reference to God. In 1879 Charles Taze Russel from outside Pittsburgh ,Pennsylvania founded the Zion's Watchtower magazine and the religion has grown ever since and now has millions of followers. If your knowledge of the scripture is lacking they can confuse you with their translation of the Bible called The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.This translation was introduced as N.W.T of the Christian Greek scripture Aug.2 1950, and in 1961 was given the above name when it was published as a single volume to include the entire Bible.The translation is less than honest in its translation from Greek to English, they claim it to be a literal translation word for word. Dr. William Barclay a leading Greek scholar said,"It is abundantly clear that a sect that can translate the New Testament like that is intellectually dishonest."  Dr.Bruce M. Metzger Prof. of  the New Testament at Princeton University calls the N.W.T. " a frightful mistranslation,erroneous and reprehensible" and again Dr. Julius Mantey author of  A Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament calls it "a shocking mistranslation..." This "translation" has undergone a number of revisions in its history at the hands of their own leadership the latest being in 1984. The Holy Trinity is not easily understood to say that I have my head completely wrapped around it would be a lie but I can read what the scripture says and accept it or not, but I don't have the rite to change it. Jesus said, "I am the way,  the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but by Me." What we believe about Jesus has eternal consequence.  When you have a religion who claims to offer the truth about God and His word but change it to make it fit what they think it should say,  you end up with a cult.  Whether they do this knowingly or not is not important,  however the truth about Jesus is. One scripture I would point out is  John 1:1 which reads " In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God." In the New World Translation it reads  " and the word was A god" they deliberately change this to carry out their mission to deny the Deity of Jesus making Him less than what the disciple Thomas eventually confessed in John 20:28, "my Lord and my God." The fact that Jesus did not rebuke him is important, if Jesus was not God He would have corrected Thomas but He did not.Their are many scriptures that point to this all important fact and I will continue to show these in future post. Next week we will look at Mormons and why they are not in line with Bibical Christianity.