by Terry 31 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
So that other posters realize this, Unicorns do not exist. Those scriptures listed above, Unicorn is ONLY stated the the King James Version, which is a government issued bible. I have 12 translations here at home, all those scriptures are refering to the "wild oxen". Just to be clear!
affectionately: Brother of the Hawk (I will surrender my mind no more, forever)
"By the time Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great and Greece conquered the known world it was only
THE GREEK PASSION FOR KNOWLEDGE that stood against the backward religious myths of indigenous peoples.
Suddenly, the God bubble popped very loudly! POP!
By the end of the Book of Malachi there is a deafening silence from "God". Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh......"
Fascinating point. Can't see much in the way of apologetics on the internet to explain the reason for this 400 year silence. This article is one attempt to explain it http://www.templemount.org/0240.html
Even more perplexing is God's hiddenness since Christ died. In his book on the subject, Schellenberg has argued that a God of love could provide reasonable evidence of his existence to everyone in a way that does not impinge our moral freedom, and that the absence of this underwrites atheism about the God of Jewish-Christian theism.
@yadda
The Book of Daniel was wrritten about 160bce. Malachi was not the last book written in the OT.
The Book of Daniel was wrritten about 160bce. Malachi was not the last book written in the OT.
Noted. Thanks.
But, the point remains; the character of Jehovah went from being "in the headlines" to not even mentioned in the gossip columns for about 4 centuries only to return as an offstage voice in a new melodrama.
Like a washed-up actor doing guest stints on daytime TV, Jehovah shrunk in stature and was only trotted out to be prayed to and to rubber stamp the
efforts of Jesus. It was quite a demotion.
He hasn't even had a voice-over for two thousand years. I suspect He is in a retirement home somewhere perhaps with Alzheimers. Mores the pity.
It would explain why Jesus never got the signal to "finish the work."
my tissue exploded like a popped bird when i sneezed this morning. There was once a whole tissue and then there was fluff. I think that happened to god too - just fluff.
Snot funny!
"By the end of the Book of Malachi there is a deafening silence from "God".
Differing thoughts on the intertestamental period:
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=513889
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/02/27/2491104/investigating-the-400-silent-years.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertestamental_period
I would give anything to spend a day in ancient Athens, or Ur, or Babylon, or Maya (and understand the language being spoken there as part of the deal). I've always been so curious as to what the minds of pre-scientific, pre-enlightenment people were like, just the everyday people. I think the intellectual evolution of the past thousands years has really made it nearly impossible for us to imagine how ancient people viewed their world and interacted with each other,at least at the granular level you'd get by direct observation.
glenster: "By the end of the Book of Malachi there is a deafening silence from "God".
Differing thoughts on the intertestamental period:
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=513889
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/02/27/2491104/investigating-the-400-silent-years.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertestamental_period
The character Jehovah, for all practical purposes, hardly figures at all into the so-called silent years.
The dramatic nature of the changeover from Jewish ethos to Greek ethos knocked the wind out of Jehovah's sails.
There is a good reason why contemporary bibles leave out the intertestament writings as "Apocrypha". even though the Catholic
scriptures contained them for two thousand years. Martin Luther, John Calvin and their lot were on a purifying rampage. Luther wanted to eliminate
several books such as Hebrews and Revelation! Ahh, those were the days, my friend--those were the days.
