I would very much like to get opinions on this subject. I'll provide several verses from the King James Version of the Bible, and I ask you to give me feed-back.
Jesus' words:
1) "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise." (John 5:19)
2) "My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me." (John 7:16)
3) "Neither came I of myself, but he sent me." (John 8:42)
He replied, after the Pharisees accused him of making himself God:
4) "Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the SON of God?" (John 10:36)
5) "For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say....Whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak." (John 12:49,50)
6) To his Father in prayer: "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God , and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." (John 17:3)
7) "I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and your God." (John 20:17)
To John in the Revelation:
8) "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God..." (Revelation 3:12)
Do these quotations show that Jesus was NOT God?
Do YOU believe that he claimed to be God?
JESUS IS NOT GOD
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Re: JESUS IS NOT GOD
Post #1971[Replying to Capbook in post #1969]
Codex Sinacticus 4th century=Catholicism. 4 men translated it. There was no other supposed Christian religion at that point.
Codex Sinacticus 4th century=Catholicism. 4 men translated it. There was no other supposed Christian religion at that point.
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Post #1972I don't think that Frederick Franz was the "primary translator" of the NWT. I would have to see his book to be convinced. Can you present exactly what he says in his book that leads you to believe that he is the primary translator? That would be helpful, since I assume you already have seen what he wrote in his book.Capbook wrote: ↑Sat May 31, 2025 2:13 amPlease do a good research. You just post your own opinion without proof or link of your source.servant1 wrote: ↑Fri May 30, 2025 6:41 pm [Replying to Capbook in post #1967]
There are no originals left of the NT at least--4th century Catholicism translating made up the Greek lexicons that exist today. Very few minor fragments that are older remain. The Latin Vulgate and The Codex Sinacticus is what all translation is done by the protestant religions. Late 14th century( Wycliffe) the first protestant translation came out of the Latin Vulgate. The Latin Vulgate is a corrupted translation as is the Codex Sinacticus. Thus all protestant works are corrupted as well. Catholicism=2Thess 2:3--that is who's translating you put your eternal life into.
God fixed it here in these last days=The New world translation.
The Codex Sinaiticus, a crucial ancient manuscript of the Christian Bible, is not a product of Catholic influence.
https://www.google.com/search?q=is+code ... s-wiz-serp
You promote your paraphrase translation, don't you know that NWT translators according to an article lack Greek credentials specially F. Franz.
It is reported that Frederick Franz, the primary translator of the NWT, had only twenty-one hours of formal classical Greek training at the University of Cincinnati[7] and only two hours of Biblical Greek or Koine Greek.[8] This information was provided in Frederick Franz’s 1911 autobiography in which he published his own college transcript. https://www.neverthirsty.org/bible-qa/q ... anslation/
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Re: JESUS IS NOT GOD
Post #1973Did you not click the link?onewithhim wrote: ↑Fri Jun 06, 2025 8:09 pmI don't think that Frederick Franz was the "primary translator" of the NWT. I would have to see his book to be convinced. Can you present exactly what he says in his book that leads you to believe that he is the primary translator? That would be helpful, since I assume you already have seen what he wrote in his book.Capbook wrote: ↑Sat May 31, 2025 2:13 amPlease do a good research. You just post your own opinion without proof or link of your source.servant1 wrote: ↑Fri May 30, 2025 6:41 pm [Replying to Capbook in post #1967]
There are no originals left of the NT at least--4th century Catholicism translating made up the Greek lexicons that exist today. Very few minor fragments that are older remain. The Latin Vulgate and The Codex Sinacticus is what all translation is done by the protestant religions. Late 14th century( Wycliffe) the first protestant translation came out of the Latin Vulgate. The Latin Vulgate is a corrupted translation as is the Codex Sinacticus. Thus all protestant works are corrupted as well. Catholicism=2Thess 2:3--that is who's translating you put your eternal life into.
God fixed it here in these last days=The New world translation.
The Codex Sinaiticus, a crucial ancient manuscript of the Christian Bible, is not a product of Catholic influence.
https://www.google.com/search?q=is+code ... s-wiz-serp
You promote your paraphrase translation, don't you know that NWT translators according to an article lack Greek credentials specially F. Franz.
It is reported that Frederick Franz, the primary translator of the NWT, had only twenty-one hours of formal classical Greek training at the University of Cincinnati[7] and only two hours of Biblical Greek or Koine Greek.[8] This information was provided in Frederick Franz’s 1911 autobiography in which he published his own college transcript. https://www.neverthirsty.org/bible-qa/q ... anslation/
The article said so.
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Re: JESUS IS NOT GOD
Post #1974.
Please consider
Jesus is God in that he is a meditator between God and man
- he is both God Spiritually and man Physically
- he is the visible manifestation or " MORPH " of God - the image of the invisible God
Heb 1:1 Many ways, also various ways, long ago the God spoke to their fathers
:2 in their prophets unto these last of days, of these, he spoke to them in his son
Please consider
Jesus is God in that he is a meditator between God and man
- he is both God Spiritually and man Physically
- he is the visible manifestation or " MORPH " of God - the image of the invisible God
Heb 1:1 Many ways, also various ways, long ago the God spoke to their fathers
:2 in their prophets unto these last of days, of these, he spoke to them in his son
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Post #1975Yes I clicked the link. It does not show any proof that Frederick Franz was the "main translator" of the NWT. There are just mean statements by a former JW from which there are never any up-building comments. For you to take the article seriously you have to believe that Raymond Franz was absolutely truthful, and I don't see anything in his article that would convince me of such. I have read statements of his in the past, and he twists truth and makes it seem nefarious.Capbook wrote: ↑Sat Jun 07, 2025 1:00 amDid you not click the link?onewithhim wrote: ↑Fri Jun 06, 2025 8:09 pmI don't think that Frederick Franz was the "primary translator" of the NWT. I would have to see his book to be convinced. Can you present exactly what he says in his book that leads you to believe that he is the primary translator? That would be helpful, since I assume you already have seen what he wrote in his book.Capbook wrote: ↑Sat May 31, 2025 2:13 amPlease do a good research. You just post your own opinion without proof or link of your source.servant1 wrote: ↑Fri May 30, 2025 6:41 pm [Replying to Capbook in post #1967]
There are no originals left of the NT at least--4th century Catholicism translating made up the Greek lexicons that exist today. Very few minor fragments that are older remain. The Latin Vulgate and The Codex Sinacticus is what all translation is done by the protestant religions. Late 14th century( Wycliffe) the first protestant translation came out of the Latin Vulgate. The Latin Vulgate is a corrupted translation as is the Codex Sinacticus. Thus all protestant works are corrupted as well. Catholicism=2Thess 2:3--that is who's translating you put your eternal life into.
God fixed it here in these last days=The New world translation.
The Codex Sinaiticus, a crucial ancient manuscript of the Christian Bible, is not a product of Catholic influence.
https://www.google.com/search?q=is+code ... s-wiz-serp
You promote your paraphrase translation, don't you know that NWT translators according to an article lack Greek credentials specially F. Franz.
It is reported that Frederick Franz, the primary translator of the NWT, had only twenty-one hours of formal classical Greek training at the University of Cincinnati[7] and only two hours of Biblical Greek or Koine Greek.[8] This information was provided in Frederick Franz’s 1911 autobiography in which he published his own college transcript. https://www.neverthirsty.org/bible-qa/q ... anslation/
The article said so.