“To get what Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses wish to claim, that Jesus was just a god in the sense that some men are \u201cgods\u201d in that they are God\u2019s representatives you would need \u201cand the Word was God\u201d (\u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03b8\u03b5\u03cc\u03c2 ?\u03bd \u1f41 \u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2)\u00a0in the Greek. This is why no translation, outside the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses own poorly done one, says that the Word was a god.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Regarding Jehovah’s Witnesses’ “New World Translation” Bible and its rendering of John 1:1, it may interest you to know that there is soon to be published an 18+ year study (as of 01\/2010) in support and explanation of their wording of this verse entitled, “What About John 1:1?”\u00a0 In fact, not only is your statement “no translation, outside the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses own poorly done one, says that the Word was a god”\u00a0simply not true, but\u00a0there has been located over 125 examples, in 10 languages,\u00a0of where Bible Translators \/ Scholars have, indeed, rendered the third clause of John 1:1 as, ‘and the Word was a god.’<\/p>\n\t
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You are correct, there are a handful of other bad English translations that mistranslated John 1:1. (Less than 5?) I updated the statement accordingly. That you managed to find 125 bad translations is unimpressive in the sea of translations out there. Nor does it prove your point. Just as current arguments that there is global warming because there is a consensus of scientist supporting the idea doesn’t make good science (and recently has been shown to be a sham), finding a few documents with an indefinite article doesn’t mean that it is a proper Greek translation to English. Having to reach into other languages is even worse since every language treats articles in different ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: Regarding your statement on in “Jesus is God“: “To get what Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses wish to claim, that Jesus was just a god in the sense that some men are \u201cgods\u201d in that they are God\u2019s representatives you would need \u201cand the Word was God\u201d (\u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03b8\u03b5\u03cc\u03c2 ?\u03bd \u1f41 \u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2)\u00a0in the Greek. This is why…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[355,959,325,311],"class_list":["post-22075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-jehovahs-witnesses","tag-john","tag-new-world-translation","tag-translations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2482,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-the-new-world-translation-an-accurate-translation\/","url_meta":{"origin":22075,"position":0},"title":"Is the New World Translation an accurate translation?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 8, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: What do you think about The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures? 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