[59][60] The use of Jehovah in the New Testament is very rare, but not unique to the New World Translation. Modern theology was seriously affected by the so-called Enlightenment and its aftereffects, which declared that man and human reason were more important than God and divine revelation. "[97], In 1960, Frederick William Danker wrote, "not to be snubbed is the New World Translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, Rendered from the Original by the New World Translation Committee 'the orthodox' do not possess all the truth, yet one does well to 'test the spirits'. May 5th Westcott to Hort: at present I find the presumption in favour of the absolute truth I reject the word infallibility of Holy Scripture overwhelming. (Life, Vol.I, p.207). 18th-century philosophers and theologians, especially in Germany and France, carried that concept further. [21][22] Work began on December 2, 1947, when the "New World Bible Translation Committee" was formed, composed of Jehovah's Witnesses who professed to be anointed. But the publication of the Scofield Bible resurrected the old Jesuit futurism with a Zionist twist.Today the policies of our country are dramatically influenced by futurism and Christian Zionism while few have even heard of historicism. [39] The publishers stated that "the particulars of [the New World Bible Translation Committee's members] university or other educational training are not the important thing" and that "the translation testifies to their qualification". 1890 May 1st Westcott consecrated Bishop of Durham. But wait we find that the two manuscripts so used by modern versions DO NOT AGREE WITH EACH OTHER! Most do not realize that in the middle 1800s the Catholic Church in England made HUGE gains. END The "Easy To Read" [88] In 1985, Alan Stewart Duthie responded to the assertion by Fee & Stuart that the NWT is "filled with the heretical doctrines of this cult",[89] stating that although "there are some heretical doctrines to be found [it] does not reach even 0.1% of the whole, which is very far from 'full'".
