Thanks so much Br Hiro...it was a great day today. I think I was welcomed more than before.

I feel very secured since you took seated beside me. I was able to ask questions after the meeting naturally, too.

I am able to follow the meeting without preparation, or I must say I'm already familiar with the contents of the meeting because I learned a lot about faith before. I thought about it thoroughly so I'm sure I have already fully prepared. Please understand!!

As to translation..since New World translation is virtually a work by one man with four associates. He hadn't gotten a formal Hebrew education. On the other hands, other major translations are the work of more than 100 scholars. One of my very close friend who majored Greek even says there's a lot of misinterpretations in NWT version Greek scripture.

The problem is those misinterpretations made the word of God unnecessarily difficult to understand. I think Bible is much easier than NWT. I feel some expressions are sircumlocution. I make it a rule to refer to 5 or 6 different versions in search of what God really wanted to says.

That's what I think honestly, but that does not mean to undermine the great effort Jehovah's Witnesses have made. I like Witnesses people. Let's try to make progress together. I think we have to keep on changing to a better direction to be a better Christian.

Keep in touch..

Mer