But the NWT Translates Differently than the Kingdom Interlinear.

But the NWT Translates Differently than the Kingdom Interlinear.

This is a video (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-gQxCDkWZA )trying to make the point that the New World Translation translates differently than an Interlinear. I don't really understand the logic here. Bibles are not supposed to translate as an interlinear. The NWT translators understood this and that is why they had no problem publishing the Kingdom Interlinear to show this. I can take any Bible translation and show discrepancies between the translated text and an interlinear.

The Greek New Testament has between 138,000 to 140,000 words, depending on which Greek text one is using (TR, UBS, Nestle-Aland). But no English translation has this few. The RSV has 173,293 words, the NRSV has 176,417, the REB has 176,705 and the Good News Bible has 192,784 words. Also, translating strictly word-for-word misses out on specific idioms and does not always convey the true meaning. Greek is Greek, Hebrew is Hebrew and English is English. They are all very different languages. There is one example where the phrase: "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" was translated into Russian and then back to English, the result was "The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten."

The video gives many Christological examples where the New World Translation has supposedly "altered" the translation, but many other translations have done similarly as the NWT. For instance, underneath this video, the producer, truthoutmedia pointed out that the word "other" was added to John 3:31 in the NWT. So I checked the two greatest Bible translators of all time, James Moffatt and Edgar Goodspeed, and they did the same thing in their translations (Charles B. Williams, the New English Bible and the Revised English Bible did likewise). Why? Because the word "other" is a legitimate part of the Greek word PAS (all). Much of what is pointed here is also translated similarly in other Bibles. This reminds me of something the great John Locke once wrote: "There is scarcely one text alleged by the Trinitarians which is not otherwise expounded by their own writers".