they have writes hundreds of other repetitive books, but no bible commentary. Is it because an actually commentary would destroy their doctrine and prevent them from being able to cherry pick scriptures?
Why has the watchtower never written a commentary on the Greek scriptures?
by kneehighmiah 22 Replies latest jw friends
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Barrold Bonds
You mean aside from the Gospels, Acts, James, and Revelations?
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kneehighmiah
the greatest man book is not a commentary per se. Revelation is definitely not. Its a terrible book of speculative propagana
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HowTheBibleWasCreated
The Gospels- Greatest Man
Acts- Benifit Book
1 + 2 Peter- Choosing Best Way of Life
James - Commentary on James
Revelation- The Red Revelation book and also the old Babylon Book
BTW
The prophets are all coverned
Isiaiah - Two Books
Jeremiah and Lamentations - Jeremiah Book
Ezekiel - The Nations shall know that I am Jehovah
Daniel - Daniel Book
the 12 minor prophets are covered in a small book called Living with Jehovah's Day in Mind.
Actuall it's Genesis to The Song of Solomon as well as 'Pauls Letters that are in need of JW commentary.
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kneehighmiah
Paul's letters would destroy JW theology. No wonder they haven't covered those.
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Enlightenment123
Just saw a question like this on Yahoo Answers :) I didn't answer it there, but I'll answer it here. I don't think they would dare do that. In theory, it would destroy the doctrine. People would see that they're preaching the wrong thing and it's not about 'Jehovah', it's all about Jesus. They might actually figure out that when you cherry pick scriptures, all it really does is come back to bite you in the ass.
It doesn't really matter anyway though...if you have an altered Bible like the NWT, all you really have to do is write an altered commentary to match.
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AndDontCallMeShirley
The only attempt WT has made at a commentary is Commentary on the Letter of James. Ironically, it was written by Ed Dunlap, a man the WT disfellowshipped as an apostate right about the time Ray Franz left WT.
The other books listed above, most notably the Revelation Climax book, are not commentaries by any stretch of the imagination. They are poorly written works of fiction promoting WT doctrine- nothing more.
The reason WT does not produce true commentaries is that they would actually have to substantiate their teachings Biblically, which they cannot do. It was also expose their ignorance and teachings to true Bible scholars, who would tear it to shreds with little effort.
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Satanus
There is the 'si', scriptures inspired book, 1963. Its a commentary on the whole bible.
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AndDontCallMeShirley
Read a real commentary and compare it to the SI book. Not even close. The SI book is a presentation of WT theology cloked in a little bit of Bible trivia.
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Satanus
No meat, to speak of. Still, its a wt version of a commentary.
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