Cheers, all. Len.
Overlapping Generation -- easy to understand -- NOT!
by FatFreek 2005 4 Replies latest social humour
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Hairyhegoat
What aload of goat shit. I told me dad about this a few weeks before it was common knolwage and he said I was an apostate. LOL
But as you can tell I am...
Hairyhegoat
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Sharpie
lol Hey Hairy, what happend after your dad found out you were right? Was it a jaw-dropping moment for him
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Hairyhegoat
No he has said nothing about this and has not contacted me for over 2 months, the new kingdum hell just built may have a visit from the firestarter very soon. lol
H.H.G.
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VM44
What The Watchtower has done is to change the meaning of the word "Generation."
The reason? In order to preserve the meaning they have attributed to the year 1914.
The year "1914" does not appear in the Bible, but Jesus using the word "generation" does.
The meaning of the word Jesus used has been modified by The Watchtower so as to fit its other doctrine.
This is a classic example of what is called eisigesis!
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Eisigesis is commonly used when talking about reading/understanding a certain text, usually Biblical text.
Eisigesis means reading into the text; which means that while reading the text, one would understand the text in accordance to his own presupposition and agendas. Eisigesis is widely used to prove a point rather to search for the truth. On the contrary to eisigesis, exigesis means reading out of the text. That means putting aside al presuppositions, agendas, and ideas, and looking for the truth of the matter, although it might be something we disagree with.