What Are changes reflected in New Bible teach book?

by Joshua.r in

except picture changes, what are the content changed in new bible teach book?

which pages?.

Apognophos

Two new scriptural citations have been added to a statement about the end times on page 151: Revelation 16:14 and 19:19-21.

The word "on" is now preferred to "upon".

The meaning of the Greek word rendered "baptize" is now given on page 175 as "dip under water" instead of just "dip".

"It if appears that you qualify for the public ministry" is now "If it appears that you qualify to participate in the witnessing work" on page 177 and "public ministry" on p. 177-178 is now "field ministry".

The phrase "being baptized" on p. 178-179, 182 is now more correctly "getting baptized".

Holy Photoshop, Batman! Four or five NWTs on page 180 were changed to rNWTs, but they forgot to update the appearance of the Bible Teach book itself, which is still gold.

The pictures on p. 184-185 are now color.

Lots more "come to know"s in place of "take in knowledge"s.

The sentence on p. 197 "So Jehovah can become whatever is needed in order to fulfill his purposes" now has the additional statement tacked on, "and he can cause to happen whatever is required with regard to his creation and the accomplishment of his purpose".

The material on the 2,520 years is completely unchanged.

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What Are changes reflected in New Bible teach book?

by Joshua.r in

except picture changes, what are the content changed in new bible teach book?

which pages?.

Apognophos

The pictures of human suffering on pages 88-91 were colorized. The angry yelling man looks oddly like Stephen Lett, but this is not a change.

The image of a woman holding a Bible on p. 113 was colorized and updated with the rNWT via Photoshop, but now her forefinger is not resting on the spine of the Bible, but on empty space, because the rNWT spine folds inward when the Bible is open and the old NWT did not.

A couple "language" statistics were updated. Page 92's "more than 400 languages" is now "hundreds of languages".

Another change from 'take in knowledge' to 'come to know' on p. 94 and the sentence was clarified to mention that this knowledge comes from studying the Bible.

Another dubious Bible-swapping Photoshop job on page 132.

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What Are changes reflected in New Bible teach book?

by Joshua.r in

except picture changes, what are the content changed in new bible teach book?

which pages?.

Apognophos

It's clear to me now that the rNWT capitalizes several words that were previously not capitalized in the NWT, and this is why they are capitalized in the Teach book too (another example is that "heavenly kingdom" is now "heavenly Kingdom").

An amusing error on page 71 was fixed. "Countless trillions of stars fill the universe, yet God gives the name of each one! (Isaiah 40:26)". That must be a long Bible verse! In the new edition of the book, "gives" was changed to "knows".

On the same page, "Jehovah actually yearns to bring the dead back to life" now reads, "Jehovah longs for the time when he will bring the dead back to life". Not sure what the intent was in this change.

A remark explaining what Hades is, on page 72, was removed since the quoted scripture now says "the Grave".

On the same page, "we may be freed from any dread of dying" was changed to "we do not have to be afraid of dying", an editorial improvement.

On page 74, a sentence about Jesus' resurrection was split into two sentences so that the scriptural backup could be placed after the statement it actually serves, not the unsupported statement that follows.

An amusing change on page 78: "Would you want to have a ruler like that?" is now "Would you not want to have a ruler like that?" to make the intent of the question clearer.

On page 82, "the battle of Har-Magedon, or Armageddon" now reads "the war of Armageddon".

The next sentence, "What will God's Kingdom achieve by means of Armageddon?" now reads "What will God's Kingdom achieve by means of the war of Armageddon?" This is probably because Armageddon is a place, not an event.

Doctrinal statements not changed include the heavenly calling still being open, and remarks about 1914.

It seems that the minimum justification (word spacing) in the book was raised, so that some lines are less cramped than they used to be.

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What Are changes reflected in New Bible teach book?

by Joshua.r in

except picture changes, what are the content changed in new bible teach book?

which pages?.

Apognophos

They changed single 'p's to double 'p's, e.g. "worshipers" to "worshippers". I wholeheartedly approve of this change but I'm surprised because the Society always used to use double 'p's, so I don't know why it was ever different here.

They changed "evildoer" to "criminal" on page 36, probably as a reflection of the change in the NWT's wording; this is not a word in a scriptural quotation but in the book's own text.

Page citations were changed from the style "197-9" to "197-199", also a sensible change.

The statement on page 51, "He experienced harsh whipping, cruel impalement, and an agonizing death on a torture stake" now reads, "He was whipped and nailed to the torture stake, suffering an agonizing death" since the rNWT no longer uses the word "impale".

Images of the NWT have of course been updated from the old black-cover appearance to the gray-cover appearance, including on page 54 where they Photoshopped a woman to be holding the new Bible instead of the old one. In so doing, they did a cheap job of painting a shadow from her hand on the new gray cover.

"As you grow in knowledge of Jehovah" on page 55 is now "As you come to know Jehovah", reflecting the change in John 17:3 in the rNWT. In line with this, the sentence immediately preceding the John citation says "get to know the Great Giver, Jehovah" instead of "get to know more about the Great Giver, Jehovah".

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What's with this "no windows in kingdom halls" thing?

by Trapped in JW land in

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friends

i hear many people on this forum say that kh's don't have windows.

but i have never been to one that didn't have windows.

is this only in a certain area or something?.

Apognophos

You never extrapolated? Sorry, this sounded like extrapolation:

As I said above, no KHs have so much as a single window in my area, and that is by design. I believe that older KHs had windows and then, for practical reasons, windows were eliminated from designs.

What was the basis for your stated belief in the second sentence, if not the reason that you gave in the preceding sentence?

Correcting my use of "yourself" while writing "then it seems that some's mentioning kingdom halls without windows" is really funny, thanks for the laugh. Also, "Kingdom Hall" is capitalized and that's not how you spell "accommodate".

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Is this why the book is grey?

by Doug Mason in

the 2014 revised edition of "what does the bible really teach?

" uses the text of the 2013 nwt.

i therefore assume this is the reason for the grey colour of the "bible teach" book.. examples of the adjustments appear at pages 216 and 217 of the book:.

Apognophos

See http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/289468/what-changes-reflected-new-bible-teach-book for a comparison of the book's old/new editions.

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Please post new forum feedback or questions here

by Simon in

well, the switchover happened - there were a couple of things i had to fix which meant the posting was disabled for longer than i planned but it's now enabled and some people have already posted.. if you have any questions about the new format or suggestions on how to improve it, please post them here.. if you are having trouble signing in or posting then you'll need to email me instead.. many thanks to everyone for their patience during the changeover !.

Apognophos

Oh, sweet, I just saw the graph of posting activity under my name. I was actually wishing for a while now that I could see the level of my activity over time, that's really helpful.

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What Are changes reflected in New Bible teach book?

by Joshua.r in

except picture changes, what are the content changed in new bible teach book?

which pages?.

Apognophos

Oh, great, thanks wifibandit, reading through this now. So far most of the changes are updating the scriptural quotations to the rNWT's version, as expected. Though I am surprised that they removed the "drenched with misery" rendering that was quoted from The Holy Bible in the Language of Today on the first page. That is a more poetic phrase than "filled with dishonor and affliction".

The next notable change is that they've changed some of the passive scripture citations to the same style of "Read" directives that they use in the Watchtower study articles and maybe elsewhere; so "—1 Peter 5:7" might become "—Read 1 Peter 5:7."

Page 16 makes the surprising change of "spirit" to "Spirit" and "person" to "Person" when referring to Jehovah. I'm not familiar with this being done before in the literature.

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by Simon in

well, the switchover happened - there were a couple of things i had to fix which meant the posting was disabled for longer than i planned but it's now enabled and some people have already posted.. if you have any questions about the new format or suggestions on how to improve it, please post them here.. if you are having trouble signing in or posting then you'll need to email me instead.. many thanks to everyone for their patience during the changeover !.

Apognophos

By the way, please don't feel badly if it seems like I'm reporting a lot of glitches, Simon. It could be worse. I just went to jw.org and it's in Japanese for no reason.

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Please post new forum feedback or questions here

by Simon in

well, the switchover happened - there were a couple of things i had to fix which meant the posting was disabled for longer than i planned but it's now enabled and some people have already posted.. if you have any questions about the new format or suggestions on how to improve it, please post them here.. if you are having trouble signing in or posting then you'll need to email me instead.. many thanks to everyone for their patience during the changeover !.

Apognophos

This isn't a new issue, but while you're feverishly changing things, can I please convince you to fix the way "Watchtower" is written? The name of the old Pennsylvania corporation is "Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society", which is where we get the acronym "WTBTS" or "WTB&TS", but the NY corp. is written "Watchtower Society of New York", and the magazine is "The Watchtower", and this is the most well-known method of writing it. It's never written "WatchTower".

I've taken the liberty of correcting the language in the copy-paste below, as a suggestion for you. I made the "WatchTower"s into "Watchtower"s except where the full name of the Pennsylvania corporation is used and it's supposed to be "Watch Tower". This is not intended as nitpicking; I just think it looks a lot better this way. The full list of changes is:

- "Jehovah's Witness religion": "religion" should not be capitalized

- "Are you people 'The Watchtower'?": removed capital 'T' and space before '?'

- "as governed by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society": separated "Watchtower" into "Watch Tower" because the acronym that follows is based on this six-word variant of the name, used by the Penn. corporation

- "join today!": removed space before '!'

- "Discuss anything Jehovah's Witness": the "'s" was missing after "Jehovah"

- "or Watchtower Society related": un-capitalized 'T' in "WatchTower", capitalized "society"

- "Watchtower Society / JW.org | Watchtower": uncapitalized 'T' in "WatchTower"

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