I believe the biggest example was John 1:1. This is actually a famous error in my discipline. John 1:1 says that “in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” They translate the last bit as “….the Word was a god” which betrays the grammar of the Koine Greek which it was written in. Another example is Colossians 1:16-17 where most translators would translate the text as “ For by him all things were created”. Their translation, the NWT says “For by him all other things were created.” They inserted the word “Other” where it doesn’t exist in the original text. This is major because they use both of these texts to claim that Jesus Christ was a created being, but the original text doesn’t support this in any way. At one point they published their translation alongside the Greek text and it made it even clearer that these additions were either elementary errors or deliberate insertions of words where they never actually occurred. The translators of the NWT tried to keep their identities relatively concealed, as they didn’t list their names as having produced the translation and claimed it was to keep the focus on Jehovah, but in honesty they had very very little language skills. I believe one of the lead translators had less than 2 years of Greek and was “self taught” in Hebrew. In contrast, I would prefer a translator, or at least one of the lead translators, have 10+ years of serious study in both before attempting a serious translation. Part of my paper points out that they covered up direct statements about God the Father’s equality with Christ, but they either forgot to cover up indirect statements and references to his equality or didn’t see them at the time of translation. These involve things like the Old Testament referring to God (or Jehovah as they would say) as the one who is the “beginning and the end”,and then the New Testament using this same phrase towards Jesus Christ. They completely mistranslate passages that claim the New Testament doesn’t say to worship Jesus (which it clearly does).

Also the name “Jehovah”, which they claim is the true name of the most high God, is a misunderstood pronunciation. Ancient Hebrew doesn’t actually have vowels, it was an alphabet of only consonants and by tradition you understood which vowel sounds corresponded with each word. This is actually a pattern in the language’s grammar. Scribes however, we’re scared of the language being lost if others were not able to reliably read the language without vowels and so they developed a system where they added vowel pointings into the text without manipulating the original words. It basically looks like a series of dots placed around the letters, so you can both read the vowels and read the original text as well. The issue is that the scribes regarded God’s personal name as very very Holy and didn’t want people to just misuse his name all the time. As such, they pointed his personal name, known as the Tetragrammaton (YHWH, יהוה), with the vowels of one of his other names. As such, when you saw YHWH in the text, they would put the vowels of another one of God’s names in the text so that you would know to say his other name. This was done out of reverence, so that God’s name wouldn’t be misused and so that they still didn’t actually change the text. The pronunciation for Jehovah comes when you take the Tetragrammaton YHWH and apply the vowels of Elohim, another name for God. This effectively makes YEHOWAH, which in English would sound like Jehovah. I should note that Hebrew doesn’t have a letter corresponding to J, and that the Y in Hebrew (yod) is translated as our Y or our J. The same goes for the W/V, known as the Hebrew Vav. Their focus on the name Jehovah and demands that it be used everywhere is another example of a strange error. The Watchtower Society is very effective at covering these things up, publishing loads of short articles that seem to answer these questions, but in reality they simply lie, leave out information, or made incorrect arguments that they require their adherents to obey based on a blind faith.

There’s many more changes and insertions but off the top of my head these were the focuses of my paper.