Why do Jehovah Witness have a different Bible?
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe the Bible was inspired by God and is historically accurate. The Witnesses have their own translation of the Bible – the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. They refer to the ‘New Testament’ as the Christian Greek Scriptures, and they call the ‘Old Testament’ the Hebrew Scriptures.
Do Jehovah’s Witnesses have their own version of the Bible?
Do Jehovah’s Witnesses use the same Bible as Christians? Jehovah’s Witnesses use a Bible translation called the New World Translation. Before this translation was released specifically by and for Jehovah’s Witnesses, most relied on the King James Version.
To simplify everything, yes, the Jehovah’s Witnesses do have their own version of the Bible. I would not even really call it a Bible, because it deviates from the original scriptures in many places. An example is where in Colossians 1:16 the word “other” is inserted 4x.
Are Jehovah and Jesus three gods in one?
The July 1882 issue of Zion’s Watch Tower said: “Our readers are aware that while we believe in Jehovah and Jesus, and the holy Spirit, we reject as totally unscriptural, the teaching that these are three Gods in one person or, as some put it, one God in three persons .” What the Bible says: “Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.”
Are the witnesses’ NWT translations inspired by God?
The Witnesses do not in any way claim that the translation of the NWT was inspired by God, and are happy to argue their doctrines from other translations if you ask them to. (Indeed, they did so for many years before the release of the NWT, and continue to do so in languages which do not yet have a version of the NWT .)
Do the New World translations of the Bible mean anything?
Yes, they do. It’s called New World Translation. There are several verses with a completely different meaning than other translations, such as John 1:1 1 In [the] beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god