`need to keep up-to-date with present truths'
Unfortunely WT writer is not practising what he preaching because no modern day translation translates the verse that way!
2 Peter 1v12 KJ/AV rendering
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RunningMan
Most translations render this scripture as "the truth you now have" or "the truth that is now within you".
But, as much as I dislike the NWT, it is not completely alone. As a minimum YLT, KJV, and DARBY all translate the scripture as "in the present truth".
I suppose it is not their translation that is in error, as much as it is what they do with it. They imply that the "truth" is always changing, so whatever they say, even if it is later proven false, is actually "present truth".
The scripture actually means, "the truth that is present", not "the present version of the truth".