i am finishing to read the entire bible (nwt 2013) for my first time (my fault) and i wrote down hundreds, maybe thousands, of questions not clear to me, but one especially came in my mind meditating on god's name.. if i wanted to summarize the entire bible in one phrase i would say (even before the kingdom): god’s name sanctification.. god is jealous about his name.
he does everything for the love of his name, and he wants to be called and prayed using his name.
no doubt about all this (repeated several times in the bible), but it involves the pronunciation of his name.. god left us his name in the form of יהוה which is unpronounceable.
The JWs did not add Jehovah to the New Testament they just followed other bibles mostly that did this already. Some bibles add it even more then 237 times.
The original poster has come to a very odd conclusion. With 66 books in the canon you have many views of god.
I would recommend before you get hung up on Jehovah's name check out 'Yahweh' on Wikipedia (and check the sources at the bottom!) and find out where Yahweh came from....The Shasu tribe.
after timaeus and crisis i had over 20 parallels to genesis 1-6 and i wasn't even cherry picking.
after symposium not only did i feel sick at the pedophilia in the text but i say lines that made it into 1 corinthians 13.. yeah,...the famous ones.
socrates looked at young boys for hours on end.).
Yes at this stage I'm only 25% done. It's 99% research and 1% typing. The parallels between zorastrian and Hellenistic works are so strong that it's becoming obvious to me that the authors of the bible we religious synchronists
here is an interesting discussion about how christianity probably began.
hierarchical political interest may have been involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=civ8gscbo_g.
The issue as always is taking paul's letters as dating to the 50s. The earliest allusion or recognition of these letters is mid second century. Galatians likely has at least two authors and 1 corinthians was reworked 3 times as seen by the position on speaking in tongues or women preaching.orveven the resurrection. There are no sources outside the bible about jesus until tacitus and by then there are a lot of oral traditions of christianity floating around
i'm actually looking forward to their warped view of matthew, mark, luke and john for this.
the drama from 2015 wasn't that bad.
however.... yeah steven lett mentions othe films about jesu are plagued with false religion.
Let's be honest here. The WT Jesus is according to Richard Carrier an improvement over Protestant Christianity. However the way Jesus is portrayed in the two books devoted to him by the WT is loonie. For instance. Jesus in same cases is required to travel 30-40 miles a day to bridge stories in the WT books (Greatest Man... The Way) that follow each other. To be honest the Mormons have done a better job
awake!
"if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.
because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years... therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.
Im almost 43 (though unlike most my age I refuse to grow old and have the heart of a teen. However I was born in 78.... In 1969 a child born would be 52.. This is sad. In the 1980s the doctrine of JWs was semi-believable. The Live Forever Book I still find interesting for it's brainwashing tactics. But after Fred Franz died the WT is F**ded up.
don't know how many of y'all still watch it.. this month's topic is "the king of the north" - cook goes into monotonous detail over the jw interpretation about rome, germany, ussr, russia, etc.. leaving aside for other commentators the emotionally manipulative videos of jws in russian holding cells, the tearjerker interviews, the god-awful stiffness of cook (i suspect he has never genuinely smiled, much less laughed, in his 60+ years), just thought i'd comment on one topic.. the centerpiece of the program is a "morning worship" monologue from splane.
let's again just leave to the side the dude's pomposity, smugness, and inflated sense of his own genius, and think about this part of his monologue.. he was tracing the history of the "king of the north" and talked about how "britain" (not england, not the united kingdom, not great britain, but "britain" - no idea why they have that fixation - anyway...) became the kotn in the 19th century.. paraphrasing his comments: "britain would not have become kotn if france had its way.
france was much wealthier and more powerful, but at the battle of waterloo, britain defeated france.
Why does every topic on here about a useful subject dive into American politics? I mean Ecclesiastes though not inspired has a statement right.."there is nothing new under the sun. One generation comes another goes..". Stop trying to follow governmental systems that date to roman times!!! So many political parties are a rehash of roman and earlier greek systems.. are they here? Nope. While Some obsess with government and how foreign people are idiots.. (They are not they are HUMAN) the rest of the world is trying to make 2021 are year of recovery.
after timaeus and crisis i had over 20 parallels to genesis 1-6 and i wasn't even cherry picking.
after symposium not only did i feel sick at the pedophilia in the text but i say lines that made it into 1 corinthians 13.. yeah,...the famous ones.
socrates looked at young boys for hours on end.).
After Timaeus and Crisis I had over 20 parallels to Genesis 1-6 and I wasn't even cherry picking. After Symposium not only did I feel sick at the pedophilia in the text but I say lines that made it into 1 Corinthians 13.. yeah,...the famous ones. (Yes. Socrates looked at young boys for hours on end.)
Job is obviously in the same style.
David and Jonathan's relationship makes perfect sense as does David dancing naked in 2 Samuel 6. And further Genesis 2 has Adam's rib stolen and after Adam being stitched back up. We therefore assume Woman is made from man. Uh... yeah.. same in Plato. Actually in Symposium Plato says women are dominated by men.. uh.. where have a heard this before?
BTW anyone that dates the Torah before Hellenization has major issues.
I can see my book needs to deal with all 40+ works of Plato.
so, in a couple weeks, the jws move on in their bible-reading slog to the book of deuteronomy.. take a gander at deuteronomy 23:12,13:.
a private place should be designated for use outside the camp, and there is where you should go.
13 a peg should be part of your equipment.
As for the New testament the most accurate book is Acts in places it quotes Josephus.
so, in a couple weeks, the jws move on in their bible-reading slog to the book of deuteronomy.. take a gander at deuteronomy 23:12,13:.
a private place should be designated for use outside the camp, and there is where you should go.
13 a peg should be part of your equipment.
Someone has been reading the atheists book of bible stories by an ex-witness
when i was a witness i knew what my beliefs were and could defend my views, even if it really was wrong.
i understood jw doctrines .
i could define what the faithful and discreet slave was.
Anyone ever read the aid book? This is the core beliefs of JWs. But most have never read it
