Which vrson of the bible is the best? or closest to the original manuscripts?

Up until 1950 the teachings of Jehovah’s witnesses were based mainly upon the King James Version of the Bible, but in the course of years the publications of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society in English alone have quoted from more than seventy (70) different Bible translations produced in Christendom. This does not take into account the fact that our literature is published in more than 125 languages and that these foreign languages do not have the English New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. In all parts of the world Jehovah’s witnesses are proving their Bible-based beliefs to the people by the copy of the Bible that the householder may have or that he may recognize as authoritative.

So the New World Translation comes along merely as a confirmation of the correctness of the teachings of Jehovah’s witnesses and does not constitute the foundation of their teachings. The KJ uses words that do not have the same meaning today as they did 400 years ago when the KJ was written, take 1 Cor. 10:25 it says (everything you find in the shambles you may eat) what does the word shambles mean to you today?

More than likely you would say ( a mess, this place is really a mess) the word shambles 400 years ago meant (a meat market) if a person was reading that scripture in the KJ they would not understand the meaning of the scripture. The New World Translation of the Bible & some other translations corrects this scripture with the words (meat market) now you can understand the meaning of the scripture. There are also other words that have been corrected also.

Available in whole or in part in over 120 languages. For a complete list of languages, see www.jw.org. Total Printed of All Editions of the New World Translation: 208,366,928 Copies May 2014 Printing.

This is really an easy question for me as a former Bible translator. The best of the translations that are readable in English is the NRSV Catholic Edition. Be careful of so-called bibles that are not translations but instead are paraphrased versions of the Bible to support certain man-made doctrines like the NWT used by the Watchtower Corporation followers called ironically Jehovah Witnesses.

God bless! In Christ Fr. Joseph.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.