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Answer: Yes, says John 5:23 in the NWT, ‘..that all may honour the Son just as they honour the Father. He that does not honour the Son, does not honour the Father who sent him.’ Ask: Do you give the Son worshipful honour just as you give to the Father? 7. Titus 2:13 Why does WT break the Greek Granville-Sharp Rule here, by adding [the] which occurs in no NT manuscripts. NWT Titus 2:13 KJV ‘While we wait for the happy hope and glorious manifestation of the great God and of [the] Saviour of us, Christ Jesus.’ ‘Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.’ The NWT has mistranslated this verse (by adding [the] to make two persons) in order to deny the deity of Christ, a doctrine they refuse to accept. By adding ‘the’ in brackets, they deny the fact that Paul unmistakably calls Jesus ‘Our God and Saviour’. They have made it read as if Paul were speaking of two separate persons here, God and Jesus, rather than one person, Jesus, who is named our ‘Great God and Saviour’. i) JWs violate what Greek grammarians call the Granville-Sharp rule which states that: ‘When two singular person nouns (such as “God” and “Saviour”) of the same case (“God” and “Saviour” are of the same case) are connected with “and” (the Greek word is “ και”) and the modifying article “the” (the Greek word ‘the’ is “ό”) appears only before the first noun, not before the second noun, then both nouns MUST refer to the same person (in Titus 2:13, Jesus Christ is both God and Saviour).’ In an exhaustive study, C Kuehne found this Granville-Sharp rule to have no exceptions in the entire New Testament. Key: ‘The great God and Saviour’ is Jesus Christ. This is agreed to by Greek scholars, B Metzger, J Mantey, K Wuest, A T Robertson and others. They all agree that only one person (Jesus Christ) is described in Titus 2:13 as ‘the great God and our Saviour’. ‘God and Saviour’ refer to the same person, Jesus Christ. The presence of only one definite article has the effect of binding together the two titles ‘God’ and ‘Saviour’. Ask: In view of what all top Greek scholars say about Titus 2:13, are you willing to consider the possibility that only one person is discussed in this verse, and not two? Ask: If only one person (Jesus Christ) is discussed in Titus 2:13, then who is Jesus Christ described as in this verse? (Answer: our God and Saviour). ii) An illustration of this rule applying to the one person is: ‘My wife and friend Tania ’. iii) Why does the Watchtower get the Granville-Sharp rule wrong when it applies to Christ (two occasions), and right everywhere else where Christ’s Deity is not an issue? Consider these eight examples: 1) Titus 2:13 KJV: of (the great God and our Saviour) Jesus Christ = 1 person (right) NWT: ‘of the great God and of (the) Saviour Jesus Christ’ = 2 persons (wrong!) NWT is WRONG because there is no second article to justify ‘the’.(Ask: Where is the 2nd article?) 2) II Peter 1:1 KJV: of (God and our Saviour) Jesus Christ = 1 person (right) NWT: ‘of our God and (the) Saviour Jesus Christ =2 persons (wrong!) NWT is WRONG because there is no second article to justify ‘the’.(Ask:Where is the 2nd article?) 3) II Peter 1:11 KJV ‘of (our Lord and Saviour) Jesus Christ = 1 person (right) NWT ‘of (our Lord and Saviour) Jesus Christ = 1 person (right) 4) II Peter 2:20 KJV: ‘knowledge of (the Lord and Saviour) Jesus Christ) = 1 person (right) NWT: ‘knowledge of (the Lord and Saviour) Jesus Christ) = 1 person (right) 5) II Peter 3:2 KJV: ‘apostles of (the Lord and Saviour) = 1 person (right) NWT: ‘apostles of (the Lord and Saviour) = 1 person (right) 6) II Peter 3:18 KJV: ‘knowledge of (our Lord and Saviour) Jesus Christ = 1 person (right) NWT: ‘knowledge of (our Lord and Saviour) Jesus Christ = 1 person (right) 7) I Peter 1:3 KJV: ‘Blessed be (the God and Father) of our Lord Jesus Christ = 1 person (right) NWT: ‘Blessed be (the God and Father) of our Lord Jesus Christ = 1 person (right) 8) Ephesians 1:3 KJV: ‘Blessed be (the God and Father) of our Lord Jesus Christ = 1 person (right) NWT: ‘Blessed by (the God and Father) of our Lord Jesus Christ = 1 person (right) iv) In Titus 2:13, the Greek word for ‘appearing’ is never used by Paul in the NT of the Father appearing, but is used exclusively of Jesus Christ’s appearing. (See II Thess 2:8,
I Timothy 6:14; II Timothy 1:10 and 4:1,8). Indeed, an appearing of the ‘invisible God’, other than as the visible Christ, would be impossible. v) A T Robertson, one of the world’s chief Greek grammar authorities, states in Word Pictures in the NT, Vol. VI, p 147,148 regarding II Peter 1:1: Ask: Who is right, all the Greek experts in the world, or Watchtower translators who did not know Greek well and did not use the Granville-Sharp rule consistently? 8. II Peter 1:1 Why does the WT break the Greek Granville-Sharp rule here by adding [the], which occurs in no Greek manuscripts? NWT ‘by the righteousness of our God and [the] Saviour Jesus Christ’ KJV ‘through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ’. The KJV means that Jesus Christ is ‘God and our Saviour’ as the Granville-Sharp rule demands. The WT does not like this. The NWT changes it to mean that two persons are discussed: ‘our God’ (one person),and secondly ‘[the] Saviour Jesus Christ’ (another person) different from and less than God. They therefore dishonestly break the link that proves that Jesus Christ is God. The Greek has no second article to support the NWT’s inclusion of [the]. Ask: Can you continue in the WT organisation when it shows such gross dishonesty and bias? 9. John 1:1 Is Jesus Christ ‘a god’ or ‘God’? JW New World Translation ‘In [the] beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god.’ KJV and all others ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.’ Watchtower Teaching: The NWT translates the first ‘θεος’ in John 1:1 as ‘God’, and the second ‘θεος’ as ‘a god’. In the Greek, there is a definite article ‘the’ (‘ό ’) before the first occurrence of God (ό θεος = the God). However, there is no definite article ‘the’ before the second occurrence of ‘God’. WT argues (falsely) that, when a noun has a definite article (like ‘ό θεος’), it points to an identity or personality, such as the person of Jehovah God. The WT claims (falsely) that the same phrase (‘ό θεος’) is never used of Jesus Christ in the NT (Watchtower, 1 July 86, p31). (Note: ‘ό θεος’ is used of Christ in Matthew 1:23, John 20:28 and Hebrews 1:8). The WT claims (falsely) that when a singular predicate noun has no definite article, and it occurs before a verb (as theos in John 1:1c), then it points to a quality about someone, so that here it says that Jesus (the Word) has a divine quality, but is not God Almighty (KIT, p.1139). They alone translate Jesus as ‘a god’. To support this view they quote: i) Johannes Greber NT (1937), a spiritist who claimed that spirits helped him translate the NT (Watchtower, 15 September 62, p.554; 15 October 73, p.640). The WT knew he was a spiritist in 1956 (Watchtower, 15 February 1956, p 110, 111), yet they still quoted him. ii) Dr Julius Mantey, who refutes their translation saying: ‘They have forgotten entirely what the (word) order of the sentence indicates that the “ λογος” (“logos” or “Word” in English) has the same substance, nature or essence as the Father. To indicate that Jesus was “a god” would need a completely different construction in the Greek. They misquoted me in support of their translation. 99% of Greek scholars and Bible translators in the world disagree with JWs.’ Bible Teaching: The NWT is wrong in translating John 1:1 as ‘a god’ for these reasons: 1. JWs claim that, because the second ‘θεος’ (theos) has no definite article, we should translate it as ‘a god’. (Kingdom Interlinear Translation, p 1139). Then why has the NWT JW version broken their rule four times in John 1:6, 12, 13, 18 by translating ‘θεος’ with no article as ‘God’? They are inconsistent, as seen below: Verse 1: Verse 6: Verse 12: Verse 13: Verse 18: If the NWT was consistent, they should translate ‘θεος’ as ‘a god’ in these cases too: v. 6 ‘There was a man sent from a god.’ v.12 ‘to them gave he power to become the children of a god.’ v.13 ‘nor of the will of man, but of a god.’ v.18 ‘no man hath seen a god at any time.’ This is clearly wrong and ridiculous. Why only in verse one do they refuse to translate ‘θεος’ as ‘God’? Because they don’t want Christ to be Jehovah God. The Watchtower’s mistranslation of John 1:1 is not supported by any Greek grammar textbook.
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