What Is The Difference Between A True Christian And A Christian?

[idiosyncrasy]

I don't participate in many discussions on this site but I do follow along. One thing I have noticed is that Goodlife often mentions in his posts that he is a "True Christian". What is the difference and how can you tell?

[naomi24]

Keyplus, that book you have probably isn’t a Jehovah’s Witness translation. Those verses aren’t in the latest version (2013) either. I’ve checked.

[idiosyncrasy]

Naomi@ The verses referred to by Keyplus in Mark Ch. 16 v 17 & 18 are in the 1984 version of the NWT, I have checked.

[naomi24]

idiosyncrasy, as I said, they’re in my translation too – but as a footnote and not as part of the main text. In the 2013 version which is published on the Watchtower website, the Book of Mark ends at 16:8 – as mine does. I can only assume that, unlike other translators, the JWs recognise those impossible verses as an embarrassment to Christianity – and understandably so.

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/books/mark/16/

[goodlife]

Naomi obviously you have read this portion of scripture from the online Bible and not from the printed page. Had you done so, you would have read the footnote, which states that according to early reliable manuscripts , the Gospel of Mark ends with the words found in v. 8. The 1984 version of the NWT gives both the extended conclusion ie to verse 20 and the shorted conclusion finishing at v. 8.

[goodlife]

Another way in which those who are True Christian can be identified is by their attitude toward the Bible. Jesus at all times showed respect for God’s Word. Time and again he appealed to it as the final authority on matters. (Matthew 4:4, 7, 10; 19:4-6)

[naomi24]

Goodlife, obviously you haven’t read my posts. I repeat that in my copy the verses are there on the printed page as a footnote, but are not included in the main text. The on-line version omits them completely. Interesting though. If you contend that “according to early reliable manuscripts, the Gospel of Mark ends with the words found in v. 8”, who do you think was responsible for dreaming up those clearly impossible verses – and since they are, in the opinion of your anonymous translators, superfluous, how can we be sure that other verses are authentic? Jehovah’s Witnesses are renowned for change, not least by liberally inserting the name ‘Jehovah’ into verses where it is originally absent.

//Jesus at all times showed respect for God’s Word.//

Then why don’t you? Jesus was a Jew.

[goodlife]

naomi@ so simple you don,t believe the Bible full stop.

[naomi24]

You're wrong, Goodlife. Like you, I believe some bits. ;o)

[keyplus90]

So if they keep on taking verses out of every new edeition then where would it end? But in a sense it is a good thing as the slowley but surely they are taking out added stuff and getting more and more closer to Islam as the verse about "begotten Son" has also gone out.

[mibn2cweus]

Oh please, do go on . . . no good reason to stop just yet!

[naomi24]

Keyplus, I'm not sure that verse was ever in - the JW's version of Jesus is a million miles from Islam's so don't hold your breath.