Posts by HowTheBibleWasCreated

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Solomon's Temple was there one??

by Crazyguy in

its interesting to find out that there is no evidence of king david or his son solomon.

what about this amazing temple that solomon supposedly built??

there is no arcylogical evidence that it ever excisted either.

HowTheBibleWasCreated

Thats a text from 'the atheists book of bible stories'

Acurate and Chronicles is a fantasy!

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Solomon's Temple was there one??

by Crazyguy in

its interesting to find out that there is no evidence of king david or his son solomon.

what about this amazing temple that solomon supposedly built??

there is no arcylogical evidence that it ever excisted either.

The Pslams are a good start. The constant mention of Yahweh a Judean King and a temple for Yahweh can only fit from a 'first temple'. (While the majority of Pslams are from 50BCE-100AD there are several pre-exilic ones.

Like I said I think there was a first temple however it was one of many temples to differnt gods until Josiah.

I do NOT belive the second temple was built in the same place as the first!<<<<<<<

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8 Year Old Getting Baptized!

by Atlantis in

eight year old getting baptized!

(from a jw site.

this 8 year old sister was the youngest of the 31 who were baptized at a regional convention in bogo city, cebu, philippines on the weekend.

HowTheBibleWasCreated

She is in the Philippines... the majority of the people are religious very much so.... The JWs there ironically belive in a 'paradie gospel' so she will continue to belive this until she dies or the JWs crash...

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Why isn't the story of SAMPSON quickly and clearly regarded a myth?

by Terry in

judges chapter 15:.

14 when he came to lehi, the philistines shouted triumphantly at meeting him.

then jehovahs spirit empowered him,+ and the ropes on his arms became like linen threads that were scorched with fire, and his fetters melted off his hands.+ 15 he now found a fresh jawbone of a male donkey; he reached out and grabbed it and struck down 1,000 men with it.+ 16 then samson said: with the jawbone of a donkeyone heap, two heaps!

HowTheBibleWasCreated

The story is a chronogical mess for me in trying to date certain texts in my book...Samson is very plainly a spin off of Hercules and his association with the 'Sea Peoples' is a good clue to the origins of the story. Some date it pre exiclic but I can't... to many Greek ideas and parallels in it.. which places it after 332 BCE (Alexander's conquest) Yet is follows the other judges perfectly which tell me the other stories like Gideon, Barek etc ae much older and the text was onlt finalized later.

Also a BIG shocker in is the following chapter (17) a man steals from his mother the exact same amount of money as Samson was betrayed for... is he Samson's son?.... This story is set before where the Samson story is set chronologically... What is worse the following story Judges 19-21 is set as an apoligetic to David-Saul and follows from 18.... (The worst part of the bible to read.)

I see no historical personage for Samson.... (Son of Sun)

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DINOSAURS - What do Jehovah's Witnesses Believe?

by Bloody Hotdogs! in

as part of my deconversion catharsis, i have been building a(nother) website to highlight some of the more ridiculous jw beliefs.

im a looong way from done, but i wanted some early feedback on one article: dinosaurs.

http://www.jwbeliefs.com/dinosaurs/.

HowTheBibleWasCreated

Actually a few years ago an elder showed me the picture in the bible story book (1978) with the ark floating on the waters and people drowning.... there is an identicle picture in the 1983 You can enjoy life on earth forever-brochure... only in that picture two dinosaurs are seen...... So in 83 they felt dinos died in the flood!

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Need a 1961 green JW bible.

by dogon in

i have a family member that will not believe that the jws put a dinosaur in the front cover of thier bible.

i am looking for a copy that has that map inside front cover with the raptor.

if anyone has one they can sell let me know.

HowTheBibleWasCreated

I have to ask the obvious. Why is a dinosaur on the inside cover of the bible so amazing? Dinosaurs are all through other books of the WTBTS...

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Lets list everything that has pagan origins!!

by song19 in

i have a feeling i am going to have to explain to my jw folks why i have decided to allow my children to participate in holidays at school.

theyll probably be wondering too why i will get together with our non jw family for the holidays.. .

we know jws avoid holidays because of their pagan origins.

HowTheBibleWasCreated

Carrying the bride over the threshhold I understood to be about cleaness... imaging a 15ht century house with a literal threshhold... yeah.. it makes sense lol

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Scientists Should Not Dismiss Genesis So Quickly

by Chris Tann in

nasa discovery proves the bible scientifically accurate.

the debate.

for decades there has been a long standing debate between science and religion as to the validity of the biblical genesis account of creation.

HowTheBibleWasCreated

This is a very tiresome thread to read through. It has already been debunked on here so I wont try. However I will point out that you failed to show how chapter 1 and 2 of Genesis fit together....since they dont. 2:4a-2:4b are a breaking point and a beginning of a new story.

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As I move further away from theWT.....

by Viviane in

i've, over the years, looked into many religions.

obviously, from those that have seen me post here, i've become an atheist simply because i couldn't find any reason to believe in god.

recently, though, over the past few months, a new change has started.

HowTheBibleWasCreated

The progressive movement from religion to facts I enver understod...I was always taught JWs were fscts.. thr creation book etc... whenI found out facts were wrong...well//// no religion... so forget that BS

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Muslim refuses to stand for the National Anthem

by designs in

cleveland cavaliers basketball player dion waiters stayed in the locker-room during the national anthem at a recent game.

asked why he responded 'i am rededicating myself to my muslim faith'.

another basketball player recently refused to stand for the anthem while on the court and was fined by the nba, dion chose to remain in the locker-room.. have you heard of followers of islam refusing to stand for the national anthem or to say the pledge of allegiance on religious grounds.. .

HowTheBibleWasCreated

Good.. fainalyl we can sperate Entertainment religion and politics.. Somene has sense... no wait he's a muslim...sad