Can Watchtower and the Jehovahs Witnesses be trusted with the Bible translation or translations?
What Greek Scholars Think of the New World Translation This collection of quotes, found on many Christian Bulletin Boards, primarily addresses the Jehovah Witnesses mistranslation of John 1:1 Dr. J. R. Mantey (who is quoted on pages 1158-1159) of the Witnesses own Kingdom interlinear Translation): “A shocking mistranslation.” “Obsolete and incorrect.” “It is neither scholarly nor reasonable to translate John 1:1 ‘The Word was a god.'” Dr. Bruce M. Metzger of Princeton (Professor of New Testament Language and Literature): “A frightful mistranslation.” “Erroneous” and “pernicious” “reprehensible” “If the Jehovah’s Witnesses take this translation seriously, they are polytheists.” Dr. Samuel J. Mikolaski of Zurich, Switzerland: “This anarthrous (used without the article) construction does not mean what the indefinite article ‘a’ means in English. It is monstrous to translate the phrase ‘the Word was a god.'” Dr. Paul L. Kaufman of Portland, Oregon: “The Jehovah’s Witnesses people evidence
