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  • No need to steal, beg or borrow when you can get a couple of good free one's p+p included delivered straight to your door, from the link I gave previously.
  • ukmonkey
    ukmonkey Posts: 3,024 Forumite
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  • lew
    lew Posts: 399 Forumite
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    edited 15 August 2009 at 7:45AM
    Or you can read the Bible online. Links ...

    http://www.watchtower.org/e/bible/index.htm

    http://www.biblegateway.com/

    For those who doubt the accuracy of the Jehovah's Witnesses Bible they can compare the reading from http://www.watchtower.org/e/bible/index.htm with the various translations from http://www.biblegateway.com/ .

    Thus the accuracy of that Bible will be confirmed.
    Read God's Word the Bible Daily and your love for God will Grow ... jw.org
  • Happychappy
    Happychappy Posts: 2,937 Forumite
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    Always put a bible to good use, shredded paper for the hamster cage or propping up the patio tables wonky leg :j
  • For the benefit of the OP and anyone else interested in the question, as a Christian I would definitely NOT recommend a Jehovahs Witness version of the Bible. And all major Christian denominations will agree on this. I am not going to be drawn into an argument about it so don't bother posting again if you're a JW.
    If you have a choice over which translation you can get hold of for free (I'm sure a local priest would give you one if you asked) then go for a KJV/NKJV/NIV which provide adequate and non-contraversial material.
  • ljonski
    ljonski Posts: 3,337 Forumite
    sorry i wanted to reply but i have been busy matched betting and worshiping the true God- i can do both at the same time , when my heart is cold but not when I am truly in His presence.

    Lew says the Jw bible is accurate .
    Areyou a scholar of Hebrew , greek or Aramaic?

    if so where and what have you qualifications in ?

    I am neither, so when i read a translation of whatever, i need to put my trust in learned men/women who know what they are talking about and have qualifications to prove it.

    thus when you say that the version in the biblegateway is the same as the Jw-you are mistaken.

    for instance - the very First words in the book of John
    John 1:1 (NKJV), "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1 (NWT), "In (the) beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god." This change was made because Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe that Jesus is God. Rather, Jehovah's witnesses believe Jesus is a created being, the highest of the angels.

    Hebrews 1:8 (NIV), "But about the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever…" Hebrews 1:8 (NWT), "God is your throne forever…" Again, a clear reference to Jesus as God is twisted.

    Genesis 1:2 (KJV), "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Genesis 1:2 (NWT), "Now the earth proved to be formless and waste and there was darkness upon the surface of [the] watery deep; and God's active force was moving to and fro over the surface of the waters."

    The NWT also wrongly translates John 8:58. Their strange rendering for this verse is:
    Jesus said to them: “most truly I say to YOU, Before Abraham came into existence, I have been.”

    The Greek word-for-word rendering states I am instead of I have been
    John 14:14
    if ever anything YOU should ask me in the name of me this I shall do.

    According to that Greek text, the Jesus taught his disciples to pray to himself and he (Jesus) shall do it. In contrast to the Greek, the NWT inaccurately reads:

    If YOU ask anything in my name, I will do it.

    These to the unitiated may appear to be mild discrepancies , but they are not and have been deliberately put in to try and prove what Jws is correct.
    I told a story about the originator of the Jws in America in the 1870's in the last post, but obviously someone didnt like it and it got pulled. Here is another: Someone said of him that he reminds him of a sign i once saw above a blacksmiths shop, " All kinds of Twisting and Turnings done here".- Somethings never change !
    "if the state cannot find within itself a place for those who peacefully refuse to worship at its temples, then it’s the state that’s become extreme".Revd Dr Giles Fraser on Radio 4 2017
  • Meepster
    Meepster Posts: 5,955 Forumite
    Just do a Google search for "Free Fiction Books" I'm sure you'll find loads...
    If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands

  • Cinders2001
    Cinders2001 Posts: 1,470 Forumite
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    edited 15 August 2009 at 2:45PM
    For goodness sake! Will you lot stop being so rude!!
    Sorry OP, your original post seems to have been hijacked by vigilantes!

    Apologies. You now have a wide choice of where you wish to get your Bible.
    Whatever your choice, it's nice to know there are some people who want to own one in this day and age. Happy reading.
    ** Freebies and money saved with the help of you all? - Don't know ....lost count! **
    ** Stay Safe **
  • This always happens with religious freebies, it brings out the worst in posters.
  • well to people i don't find this a joking matter
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