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According to a non-Catholic independant Christian web site founded and maintained by ex-members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses who have reformed to Christian beliefs, the following information is an excerpt of the establishment of the NWT bible, how it came to be and methods used by the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization to rewrite scriptural interpretation, promote through individual publications and required member promotion to their belief system
In 1950, the Watch Tower Society came out with their own translation of the Bible, the New World Translation. Jehovah’s Witnesses are told that this translation is the most accurate, unbiased translation available. The Society claims that the* New World Translation Committee* was made up of highly trained Greek scholars who did their best to “transmit his [God’s] thoughts and declarations as accurately as possible.”18. However, when one endeavors to check into the credentials of these translators, one finds that the Society is unwilling to release this information, stating that the Committee desires that all the glory for this translation go to Jehovah God and therefore the translators desire to remain anonymous.
On the surface, this may sound quite noble and honorable; but one may wonder, is this the real reason why they desire to remain anonymous? Over the years, further investigation has revealed who the translators of the New World Translation were, and the facts show that they were totally unqualified for the task of translation. Five of the six Watchtower Governing Body members who were on the Translation Committee had no formal training whatsoever in the Biblical languages. The fifth one, Fred Franz, (former Governing Body member and Watchtower president from 1977-1992) claimed to have some education, but in the Douglas Walsh Trial in Scotland, he gave this testimony under oath:
Tuesday, 23rd November, 1954:
Frederick William Franz, Examined:
Q. **Have you also made yourself familiar with Hebrew? **
A. Yes…
Q. **So that you have a substantial linguistic apparatus at your command? **
A. **Yes, for use in my biblical work. **
Q. I think you are able to read and follow the Bible in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French?
A. **Yes. **
Q. It is the case, is it not, that in 1950 there was prepared and issued what is called the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures?
A. Yes…
**Q. I think that it was your duty, was it not, before the issue of that New World Translation by your Society to check that translation for accuracy? **
**A. That is true. **
Q. In light of your studies and in light of your knowledge?
A. That is true.
Q. And did you do so?
A. I did so…
Q. **And was it your duty on behalf of the Society to check the translation into English from the original Hebrew of that first volume of the Old Testament Scriptures? **
A. Yes…
Q. **In so far as translation of the Bible itself is undertaken, are you responsible for that? **
A. **I have been authorised to examine a translation and determine its accuracy and recommend its acceptance in the form in which it is submitted. **
Q. Are the translators members of the Editorial Committee?
A. That is a question which I, as a member of the Board of Directors, am not authorised to disclose…
Q. When did you go to the University?..
Q. **Did you graduate? **
A. No, I did not…
Q. **Had you done any Hebrew in the course of your University work? **
A. No, I had not, but in the course of my editorial work, my special research work for the president of the Society, I found it was very necessary to have knowledge of Hebrew, and so I undertook a personal study of that.
ADJOURNED
Wednesday, 24th November, 1954:
Frederick William Franz, Cross Continued:
Q. **You, yourself, read and speak Hebrew, do you? **
A. **I do not speak Hebrew. **
Q. You do not?
A. No.
Q. Can you, yourself, translate that into Hebrew?
A. Which?
Q. That fourth verse of the Second Chapter of Genesis? A. You mean here?
Q. Yes?
A. No, I won’t attempt to do that.
— Douglas Walsh Trial, Pursuer’s Proof, 1954, pp. 7-9, 88, 91-92, 102-103
This exercise which Franz was unable to do is something which the average first or second year Hebrew student could have accomplished without any difficulty. Is it any wonder the Society refuses to publicly reveal the people who were involved in the translation of their Bible? Would you put your trust in a doctor who refused to give his credentials? Yet, this is what many Jehovah’s Witnesses are doing when it comes to vital Bible truth.
Continued at 4jehovah.org/jehovahs-witness-facts.php
How can such information be kept from the believers of such distorted minipulation of scripture?
In 1950, the Watch Tower Society came out with their own translation of the Bible, the New World Translation. Jehovah’s Witnesses are told that this translation is the most accurate, unbiased translation available. The Society claims that the* New World Translation Committee* was made up of highly trained Greek scholars who did their best to “transmit his [God’s] thoughts and declarations as accurately as possible.”18. However, when one endeavors to check into the credentials of these translators, one finds that the Society is unwilling to release this information, stating that the Committee desires that all the glory for this translation go to Jehovah God and therefore the translators desire to remain anonymous.
On the surface, this may sound quite noble and honorable; but one may wonder, is this the real reason why they desire to remain anonymous? Over the years, further investigation has revealed who the translators of the New World Translation were, and the facts show that they were totally unqualified for the task of translation. Five of the six Watchtower Governing Body members who were on the Translation Committee had no formal training whatsoever in the Biblical languages. The fifth one, Fred Franz, (former Governing Body member and Watchtower president from 1977-1992) claimed to have some education, but in the Douglas Walsh Trial in Scotland, he gave this testimony under oath:
Tuesday, 23rd November, 1954:
Frederick William Franz, Examined:
Q. **Have you also made yourself familiar with Hebrew? **
A. Yes…
Q. **So that you have a substantial linguistic apparatus at your command? **
A. **Yes, for use in my biblical work. **
Q. I think you are able to read and follow the Bible in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French?
A. **Yes. **
Q. It is the case, is it not, that in 1950 there was prepared and issued what is called the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures?
A. Yes…
**Q. I think that it was your duty, was it not, before the issue of that New World Translation by your Society to check that translation for accuracy? **
**A. That is true. **
Q. In light of your studies and in light of your knowledge?
A. That is true.
Q. And did you do so?
A. I did so…
Q. **And was it your duty on behalf of the Society to check the translation into English from the original Hebrew of that first volume of the Old Testament Scriptures? **
A. Yes…
Q. **In so far as translation of the Bible itself is undertaken, are you responsible for that? **
A. **I have been authorised to examine a translation and determine its accuracy and recommend its acceptance in the form in which it is submitted. **
Q. Are the translators members of the Editorial Committee?
A. That is a question which I, as a member of the Board of Directors, am not authorised to disclose…
Q. When did you go to the University?..
Q. **Did you graduate? **
A. No, I did not…
Q. **Had you done any Hebrew in the course of your University work? **
A. No, I had not, but in the course of my editorial work, my special research work for the president of the Society, I found it was very necessary to have knowledge of Hebrew, and so I undertook a personal study of that.
ADJOURNED
Wednesday, 24th November, 1954:
Frederick William Franz, Cross Continued:
Q. **You, yourself, read and speak Hebrew, do you? **
A. **I do not speak Hebrew. **
Q. You do not?
A. No.
Q. Can you, yourself, translate that into Hebrew?
A. Which?
Q. That fourth verse of the Second Chapter of Genesis? A. You mean here?
Q. Yes?
A. No, I won’t attempt to do that.
— Douglas Walsh Trial, Pursuer’s Proof, 1954, pp. 7-9, 88, 91-92, 102-103
This exercise which Franz was unable to do is something which the average first or second year Hebrew student could have accomplished without any difficulty. Is it any wonder the Society refuses to publicly reveal the people who were involved in the translation of their Bible? Would you put your trust in a doctor who refused to give his credentials? Yet, this is what many Jehovah’s Witnesses are doing when it comes to vital Bible truth.
Continued at 4jehovah.org/jehovahs-witness-facts.php
How can such information be kept from the believers of such distorted minipulation of scripture?