Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 08-09-09 WT Study (JEHOVAH'S HOUSE)

by blondie 12 Replies latest jw friends

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  Pistoff

  2 things hit me right away:

  Beth-el, meaning house of God, includes the earlier name of God that gradually became replaced by Yahweh. El was the chief in the pantheon of gods worshipped by the Canaanites, including the early Hebrews. Why doesn't the WT discuss this I wonder? The same sky riding qualities of El and later Baal are ascribed to Yahweh in psalms that apparently carried through to later days, when YHWH had replaced El as the way the israelites addressed God.

  The second thing that hit me is that they say that God did not really inhabit the temple or the tabernacle, but that is likely what the israelites thought, that El really did inhabit the temple. Why else was it sacred, or set apart? It is a slippery slope to project today's views of God onto the ancient israelites; early on they were not monotheistic. That was retrojected onto them by the writers of the bible in the 700 to 400 BCE centuries.

  Great job Blondie!
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  WTWizard

  I don't see what in any of these stock examples has anything to do with me. Did Jehovah maliciously see to it that any or all of these would get consistently p*** poor results with the opposite sex, just so He could have one (or more, or all) of these people to Himself? I don't think so--hence, if they want to build the house of that Almighty Lowlife Scumbag up, let them waste the time and resources. As for me, I could just as soon watch Jehovah's damn house burn to the ground, and not lift a finger to build it back up.
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  yadda yadda 2

  Paragraph 10 is so obnoxious. Equating Jehovah's direction in ancient times with the direction today by the FDS. Such arrogance, such hubris. How they are having their reward in full but pride is before a crash.