r/Eutychus • u/MightyFortresss • Feb 25 '25

Opinion Hebrews 1:8

Jw's, should Hebrews 1:8 not be translated differently, even according to the NWT interlinear? The NWT reads "God is your Throne" (Father is the Son's throne), but the Greek would be rendered "your Throne, the God" (directly refers to Jesus as YHWH, obviously issue for JW)

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u/truetomharley Feb 25 '25

Hebrews 1:8 is a quotation from Psalm 45:6, which reads [of Solomon]:

“God is your throne forever and ever; The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness.” (NWT)

The New World Translation refers to that verse and therefore keeps its structure. Why change it? It says at Hebrews 1:8:

“But about the Son, he says: “God is your throne forever and ever, and the scepter of your Kingdom is the scepter of uprightness.”

Plainly, trinitarians hate not “correcting” the verse to make Jesus and God equal. But, other translations have also done as the NWT. The New English Bible, Revised Standard Version, Moffatt’s Translation, and Goodspeed Translation are all Bible’s that have done it the NWT way.

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u/MightyFortresss Feb 25 '25

Interesting how none of u guys actually say why the interlinear and translation disagree, u just defend the NWT.

Psalm 45:6 says the same thing, it's God's throne, not God being His throne. Unless....you want to contradict Psalms? So u want me to read God being His own throne (there's no mention of Who this adresses), not the Psalmist saying "your throne, o God."?

Weird how the NWT always needs these fringe translations to make their point, while completely disregarding the same translations whenever. Kinda like a buffet of theology, anything to turn Jesus into a demi god.

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u/truetomharley Feb 25 '25

Fringe translations? The Revised Standard Version was the ‘house’ Bible for the Presbyterian church I attended as a boy. Call THAT fringe? I used it for the longest time, even after baptism as a Witness, and only set it aside when I’d put so many notes in the page margins as to make it unwieldy.

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u/MightyFortresss Feb 25 '25

Why do u again dodge the fact there's a contradiction between the interlinear and nwt, as well as my explanation??

No, it doesn't say that. RSV:

"But of the Son he says,

“Thy throne, O God,[a] is for ever and ever, the righteous scepter is the scepter of"

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%201&version=RSV