Jeremiah simply rejected not only some major portions but even some major books of the Bible as not being inspired of God! (Jeremiah 7:22; 8:8) Yet he is read and widely revered. If so, why can’t you, JWs, talk to the people who are called 'apostates' (because they found some of the teachings of JWs unacceptable)?
Jehovahs Witnesses, you can talk to apostates, there is a sound reason!
by Pinku 7 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Pinku
Brief introduction:
I never became a Witness, hence did not become an “apostate,” but belong to a family comprised of both. I am interested in their discussions.
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Wild_Thing
You're on the wrong website. We ARE the apostates!
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villagegirl
Pinku - How to you come to the conclusion that Jeremiah:
"Jeremiah simply rejected not only some major portions but
even some major books of the Bible as not being inspired of God!"
And you cite Jeremiah 7:22 ? and 8:8 ???
which say nothing at all to support your statement:
Jeremiah 7:22 "For I didn’t speak to your fathers, nor command them
in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning
burnt offerings or sacrifices:"
8 “At that time,” says Yahweh, “they shall bring out the bones of the kingsof Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests,
and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, out of their graves;"?
Which part of the Bible did Jeremiah reject ?
How do these scriptures prove your point ?
Jeremiah's ministry was active from the thirteenth year of Josiah,
king of Judah (626 BC), until after the fall of Jerusalem and the
destruction of Solomon's Temple in ( 587 BC
When Jeremiah was alive he had the Bible books to read from,
written in Hebrew, The Torah; Genesis, Exodus Leviticus,Deuteronomy, etc ….
and these scrolls all written in Hebrew and read in Temple:
Chronicles, Kings,Isaiah, Joel. Jonah, proverbs, Psalms,Samuel,
and others. Jerimiah is a major prophet, he never ever statedhe "rejected major portions of the Bible"
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Pinku
Jeremiah rejected as later inventions all those accounts in the Pentateuch that say about sacrificial arrangements. (Jeremiah 7:22)
In Jeremiah 8:8 what he rejects is Law (Torah, Hebrew), which means the first five books of the Bible.
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Pinku
Villagegirl, you did not get the right verse—here it is:
"How can you say, 'We are wise, And the law [torah] of the LORD is with us'? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes Has made it into a lie.—Jeremiah 8:8, New American Standard Bible -
DATA-DOG
That's very interesting. Just another reason to doubt the infallibility of the scrolls that the human council of Nicea [ not the FDS ] chose to call the " Holy Scriptures", a book that divides humanity like no other.
Also, it's hard to know which Hebrew god was inspiring Jeremiah. Was it the very same God who let Noah get drunk and naked, but then cursed Ham just for walking into his tent and seeing his pee-pee??? Perhaps it was the God who saved Lot and allowed him to commit incest, but killed Lot's wife for having a normal human reaction to the death of a whole city of men, women and children? Or was it the gods that came down and stopped humans from building a tower? I mean..wow!! What a threat that brick tower must have been to the most powerful beings in the Universe!!
It's just hard to say for sure.
DD
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suavojr
very interesting