Posts by HowTheBibleWasCreated

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Complexity, Evolutionists Biggest Problem

by Sea Breeze in

recently, some scientists modeled one of the simplest known cells - that of a bacteria.

it took an army of 128 computers running for 10 hours to process the data required in the 25 categories of molecules that are involved in this "simple cells'" life processes.

think about that for a moment - 128 computers running for 10 hours just to compute the data, not actually do it mind you; but just to model the known processes in one of the simplest known cells, which is many orders of magnitude simpler than a human cell.

HowTheBibleWasCreated

BTW if complexity means you need a Creator then by that same argument we have infinite regression.tge Creator must be more complex then the life he creates. So using the complexity argument we end up with an infinite amount of more complex creators

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Complexity, Evolutionists Biggest Problem

by Sea Breeze in

recently, some scientists modeled one of the simplest known cells - that of a bacteria.

it took an army of 128 computers running for 10 hours to process the data required in the 25 categories of molecules that are involved in this "simple cells'" life processes.

think about that for a moment - 128 computers running for 10 hours just to compute the data, not actually do it mind you; but just to model the known processes in one of the simplest known cells, which is many orders of magnitude simpler than a human cell.

HowTheBibleWasCreated

You cannot look at any life today over 4 billion years of evolution later and call it simple. The assumption that bacteria is simple is flawed. There is no so called simple life left on earth. This proves evolution.

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Newly discovered Dead Sea Scrolls with the tetragrammaton within the Greek text

by dropoffyourkeylee in

big news from israel, some previously undiscovered dead sea scrolls have been found with portions of the ot in greek.

it says the name of god is included in hebrew letters within the greek text.. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/world/middleeast/dead-sea-scrolls.html.

"the new fragments contain verses from zechariah 8:16-17, including part of the name of god written in ancient hebrew, and verses from nahum 1:5-6, both from the biblical book of the twelve minor prophets.".

HowTheBibleWasCreated

I scanned this he last few days ad have found little that affects anything. One point disturbing however is this seems to push the Essenes back a bit

BTW the chart of Jeremiah can be explained away as two traditions Hellenistic periods.

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Would you leave the Watchtower if you woke up at age 80 plus, or just stay in for the rest of your life.

by pistolpete in

so yesterday while i was doing some work for a customer, i noticed the wt mags on the sofa.

and i asked the elderly man if he was a jehovah witness?.

he said that he and his wife and all his children were raised in the religion, but only he and his wife attend the meetings or zoom.

HowTheBibleWasCreated

This reminds me of a line Morpheus says in the Matrix: "Most of these people are not ready to be unplugged."

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Do You Support The Death Penalty ?

by minimus in

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do you support the death penalty or do you think the worst punishment should be incarceration?.

HowTheBibleWasCreated

Let's see death by lethal injection or imprisonment for life? uh... no contest. 90% of people would take death. And it saves tax dollars.

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Why do some people who were trapped in the WT and wake up, still believe in the Bible God who allowed them to be deceived for years.

by pistolpete in

why do some people who were trapped in the wt and wake up after much frustration and anger that they were lied to, still believe in the bible god who allowed them and their families to be deceived and trapped for years.

i have an acquaintance who is a lot older than me and for the past 30 years he has been out of the watchtower religion and is sola scriptura.

sola scriptura is a theological doctrine that posits the christian scriptures as the sole infallible source of authority for christian faith and practice.

HowTheBibleWasCreated

Magnun:

I recommend William Dever.. "Archaeology and the Emergence of Early Israel"

Here is the wikipedia link which gives a list of many books on the bottom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasu#Shasu_of_Yhw

As for the names of Ahab's children that's a no brainer since you find no king before this with a Yahweh name (Jeroboam I is the exception but there is no reason to believe that there was an Israelite dynasty before Omri.)

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"Modern Bibles" New World Translation - Part II

by Perry in

behold, the days come, saith the lord god, that i will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the lord .

amos 8: 11. .

most of us who have been raised as jehovahs witnesses since at least the 1960s were occasionally reminded of the scholarship of fred franz and his command of eight or more languages, including the biblical languages of hebrew and greek.

HowTheBibleWasCreated

I'm an atheist gnostic/Daoist however....

I will say you research is what I have always said Franz was NOT schooled in language. I think the NWT had sexual issues in the text Franz added.

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What is the youngest a child has been baptised as a JW?

by Ultimate Axiom in

the youngest reference i have come across is in the 1992 watchtower (march 1st page 27) - “in the summer of 1946, i was baptized at the international convention in cleveland, ohio.

although i was only six years of age…”.

i would like to find more examples of this, particularly of examples in more recent times.

HowTheBibleWasCreated

Why have counties legalized this? I mean the USA was founded on secularism! Canada even more so. Some countries like Chile or the Philippines I have been too (Soon to live in the later) are Catholic and have outdated laws. The fact is that Europe is mostly secularized. The fact is:

1. Children can't consent to sex therefore can't consent to a relationship with YHWH who in Hosea makes it sexual.. sorry .. just true.

2. The JW say a driver's license proves you can be a JW.. K...Then 16 or les are outed. Actually in some provinces of Canada you can't get a FULL license until 19. even better, Who will get baptized at that age>... No one.

But 3/

Jesu was 30 according to Luke. Ok. They we go. Children need not be baptized at all. "Follow the master!"

I think taking kids to church or giving them instruction n religion is abuse!

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I turned 38 Feb 16th!

by Joliette in

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i can't believe it.

it doesnt even seem real.

my mother told me that the world would gone by the time i was 25. .

HowTheBibleWasCreated

In 43. i was told I would never have children. I have two and my wife and I try for a third. The fact is that my parents joined JWs together (My father was raised a JW but lapsed in the 1950s) and I was raised a child in the 80's then in the 90s and young adult in the 00s with no reality in my life. Only in 2010 di I start researching. In 2001 I made a big brake (right after my marriage actually) it's taken 9 year to extract myself for JWs and it took covid to finalize it mostly. I'm faded but not dfed or daed.

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Why do some people who were trapped in the WT and wake up, still believe in the Bible God who allowed them to be deceived for years.

by pistolpete in

why do some people who were trapped in the wt and wake up after much frustration and anger that they were lied to, still believe in the bible god who allowed them and their families to be deceived and trapped for years.

i have an acquaintance who is a lot older than me and for the past 30 years he has been out of the watchtower religion and is sola scriptura.

sola scriptura is a theological doctrine that posits the christian scriptures as the sole infallible source of authority for christian faith and practice.

HowTheBibleWasCreated

It does not take long at all! One night! That was all it took to truly investigate evolution. Why? Because the bible reading in Genesis was wrong.. to many archeological and textual holes.