CUL:In the beginning was the Word.

   But WHY was the Word misquoted? JOHN 1:1

   This text `THE WORD WAS GOD' has been a problem for four presidents
of Jehovah's Witnesses. C.T. Russell thought he found relief when in
1876 N.H. Barbour, an Adventist, introduced him to Wilson's EMPHATIC
DIAGLOTT. Mr. Wilson never studied Biblical Greek in a college. He was
a follower of John Thomas, a `false prophet' and founder of the
Christadelphians. Thomas nor Wilson believed "THE WORD WAS GOD." In the
interlinear feature of his book which is no translation at all, Wilson
placed `a god' under theos. In his translation, however, of theos, he
wrote: "the LOGOS was God."

   F.W. Franz. the current President of Jehovah's Witnesses, realized
the deficiency of the DIAGLOTT, decided to translate his own Bible
called THE NEW WORLD TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. Mr. Franz
never studied biblical or koine Greek. He did not graduate from any
college nor did he receive a Rhodes Scholarship as he claims. He
translates the phrase "the Word was a god." In his KINGDOM INTERLINEAR
he interlineates "god was the Word." Such a translation creates another
god. "To us there is one God."

   F.W. Franz found a translation that agrees with his, THE NEW
TESTAMENT by Johannes Greber. (SEE MAKE SURE OF ALL THINGS p.489, 1965
revision.) Who was Johannes Greber? He is the author of another book:
COMMUNICATION WITH THE SPIRIT WORLD OF GOD. In it Greber writes on page
300: "After I had convinced myself at the spiritistic meetings that
God's spirits speak to men through mediums, as they had spoken to the
early Christian communities, my first thought was to beg for full
enlightment on these problems concerning Christ. Who was Christ? My
request was granted, to the smallest details, and that knowledge
thenceforth constituted the most precious possession of my soul. In
what follows, I shall repeat the truths regarding Christ. His life, and
his work of Redemption, as they were imparted to me by the spirit which
taught them." The spirit said: "At that time you were told that Christ
is the highest of the spirits created by God and the sole one to be
created directly; Christ Himself was not God; for many false prophets
have gone out into the world" 1 John 4:1. Greber's translation is
directly from the demon world. He is quoted in Watchtower publications.
(See AID TO BIBLE UNDERSTANDING p. 1134)

   In the Watchtower publications ALL SCRIPTURE IS INSPIRED OF GOD &
BENEFICIAL p. 327 it states: "Note what Hebrew and Greek scholar
Alexander Thomson has to say in his review of the NEW WORLD
TRANSLATION: "The translation is evidently the work of skilled and
clever scholars, " THE DIFFERENTIATOR, April 1952. This sentence is
another WATCHTOWER lie. The late Mr. Alexander Thomson was not a Greek
or Hebrew Scholar. He in fact did not even formally study Greek or
Hebrew in any school according to his co-editor Dr. Frank Neil Pohorlak
of Inglewood, CA. Mr. Thomson was employed in a bank in Scotland and
did not believe that Jesus was God.

   from "Questions for Jehovah's Witnesses: "who love the truth" 2
Thess.2:10"