Has anybody still got copies of the old "Truth" book, the "Live forever " book, and "Bible Teach" book?
I threw them out, and regret it now because a sudden chilling realization came to me posting on another thread:
Do you remember how in the 70s we were told to encourage the new study to compare what the NWT says with what is in his own Bible? Especially if he had objected that the Witlesses "Have their own bible?" The aim was to get them using the NWT as soon as possible.
"What does YOUR bible say?" we were encouraged to ask.
"Well, the same thing IN SO MANY WORDS." Here is the craftiness:
Once that idea was planted, that the NWT said the same thing in so many words, the Gofor was gulled into thinking that every verse in every bible said the same "IN SO MANY WORDS " as the WT Bible.
Notice how in the early chapters of the books for new studies, there are NO scriptures with controversial or ambiguous meanings. Verses quoted really DO say the same thing in the other bibles.
"Eve ate the fruit", "thou shalt not kill" "this gospel shall be declared" etc.
Now that the study is convinced that the WT bible is the same as all the others, he will happily switch to using it, and become lazy about checking with his own. At this point in the book, the scriptures which have been deliberately MIStranslated in the NWT start to creep in, or the verses which have a word in brackets cunningly inserted to influence the understanding of the Gofor.
Unfortunately, I no longer have these books, but would appreciate those with copies to check the early chapters - I remember the training. Maybe a search of old Kingdumb Miseries will show the "PUSH to NWT" I remember from my youth.
Blondie (OXO) will almost certainly remember this
The WT never trains the witlesses what to say with no ulterior motive.
HB