Why the NWT is the worst "translation" available in the English Language

When I asked Google Gemini, "What's the worst translation of the Bible 
available in the English Language, and why? Here was the response:

Assessing the quality of an English Bible translation depends on the 
standard applied: fidelity to the underlying Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek 
manuscripts; grammatical accuracy; transparency of translation 
philosophy; or readability. When evaluated by the standard of objective 
fidelity to the manuscript tradition and lexical grammar, the primary 
candidates for the most compromised translations fall into two distinct 
categories: theological alterations and unchecked paraphrases.

The New World Translation (NWT)

Published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the New World 
Translation is widely recognized by Greek and Hebrew grammarians as the 
most problematic version due to systematic textual manipulation. Rather 
than allowing the grammar of the original languages to dictate the 
translation, the anonymous translation committee altered clear Greek 
constructions to fit an external theological framework—specifically 
denying the deity of Jesus Christ, the personality of the Holy Spirit, 
and the biblical doctrine of eternal judgment.

Key Textual Deficiencies:

Grammatical Distortions: In John 1:1, the phrase "and the Word was God" 
(theos en ho logos) is rendered "and the Word was a god," violating 
basic rules of Greek syntax regarding pre-verbal predicate nominatives 
without the definite article (Colwell's rule and subsequent grammatical 
refinements).

Unwarranted Insertions: In Colossians 1:16-17, the word "other" is 
inserted four times in brackets or directly into the text ("all [other] 
things were created by means of him") to force the passage to depict 
Christ as a created being rather than the Creator of all things, despite 
the word "other" (heteros or allos) being entirely absent from the Greek 
manuscripts.

Arbitrary Substitution: The divine name "Jehovah" is inserted 237 times 
into the New Testament text, despite not appearing in a single extant 
Greek New Testament manuscript or fragment, where the text uniformly 
reads Kurios (Lord) or Theos (God).

Euphemistic Renderings: Passages affirming the divine nature and worship 
of Christ are systematically weakened (e.g., translating proskuneo as 
"worship" when directed to God the Father, but rendering the identical 
word in the identical grammatical context as "do obeisance" when 
directed to the Son, as in Hebrews 1:6).

Conclusion

If the evaluation is based strictly on grammatical integrity and 
fidelity to the historical manuscripts, the New World Translation stands 
as the most deficient English Bible, because it alters the actual syntax 
and lexical meaning of the underlying text to conform the Scriptures to 
an external theological dogma.


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