{"id":1374,"date":"2024-08-18T20:10:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T02:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2024-08-18T20:10:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T02:10:40","slug":"joseph-smith-confused-when-he-learns-that-the-new-world-translation-wasnt-penned-by-native-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=1374","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Smith Confused When He Learns that the New World Translation Wasn\u2019t Penned by Native Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Satura Apologia Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carthage Illinois \u2013 In a long-anticipated meeting, Joseph Smith finally met Charles Taze Russell for the first time. Their conversation will range from their expertise\u2019s in Greek and Reformed Egyptian respectively, as well as extensive discussion of the Trinity according to sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Everything got off to a good start, until a misunderstanding arose in regard to Charles Taze Russell\u2019s very own New World Translation of the Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cNew World Translation?\u201d Joseph Smith said, a look of abject confusion coming over the prophet\u2019s face. And that was when the lightbulb went off in Smith\u2019s head. \u201cOh, you mean the Bible Jesus translated from the Indians when he visited North America!\u201d Russell just stared at Joseph Smith for a moment. \u201cOh, surely you remember.\u201d Smith went on. How can you possibly forget that time that Jesus showed up in war paint?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Russell patiently explained that the New World Translation had nothing to do with Jesus at all, and all correct translations were purely coincidental. \u201cYou see, the New World Translation is my translation.\u201d Russell said with a grin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Neither Smith nor Russell replied to our request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satura Apologia Today Carthage Illinois \u2013 In a long-anticipated meeting, Joseph Smith finally met Charles Taze Russell for the first time. Their conversation will range from their expertise\u2019s in Greek and Reformed Egyptian respectively, as well as extensive discussion of the Trinity according to sources familiar with the matter. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Everything got off to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satura-apologia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}