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Revised NWT in French released yesterday
by careful in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://www.jw.org/en/whats-new/revised-nwt-released-french/ .

it looks like it may only be available electronically, that is, no printed version(?)..

is the german next?.
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Commentary Press
by Hold Me-Thrill Me in
1. jw
2. friends
from commentary press: "in honor of raymond & cynthia franz, the present copyright owner of crisis of conscious and in search of christian freedom is committed to further distribution of these publications.

more details will be forthcoming.".

http://www.commentarypress.com/.
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Whatever happened to Narkissos?
by tenyearsafter in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i just happened upon one of his posts, and i realized i hadn't seen him post in over a year.

i really enjoyed his insightful comments and scholarly knowledge.

he and leolaia could always contribute to those difficult biblical questions that really required a knowledge of the languages and history of biblical times.
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Was Paul's Primary Language Greek?
by AGuest in
1. jw
2. friends
to the household of god, israel, and all those who go with... may you have peace!.

on occasion i have been directed to post statements that some of the books of the nt (those by matthew, john, james and jude, including hebrews, which was written by john, not paul) were not originally written in greek, but aramaic.

the reason most believe that greek was in fact the original language of the entire nt is because most of what paul wrote was written in greek; however, this wasn't because paul's primary language was greek; it was because those paul was sent to were primarily "greek-speaking.
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Hehehe, my mom's now a celebrety.
by ColdRedRain in
1. jw
2. friends
http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/rnr/1434098220.html.

my mystery friend from hs wrote about got it absolutely correct about my mom.

thank you, mystery person!.
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Deep thoughts: conditional love
by greenie in
1. jw
2. experiences
so, i know people talk a lot on here about how love is conditional for jws (ex.

as soon as you're not one, you've often lost jw family and friends).

in my own situation, many of you have counseled me to get out of my relationship (for those that don't know, i'm not a jw, my partner is).
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Why is Eve the bad "guy"?
by highdose in
1. watchtower
2. bible
just a thought.

lets just say for a moment that we belive the bible account of eve eating the forbidden fruit.

the bible clearly states that she was decived and thats why she ate.
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What do you make of the Alpha Course?
by boyzone in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i've recently been invited to attend an alpha course at my local baptist church and for the last 2 weeks i've gone along.

its all been very amiable and pleasant until this week.

the subject was "why and how should i pray?
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Death: Friend or Foe?
by Narkissos in
1. jw
2. friends
the jw and the (pseudo?

)scientific "hopes" of individual "everlasting life" (which have been connected on a couple of recent threads) have at least something in common: they all seem to take for granted that death is a bad thing.. as amazing as it may be to you, this amazes me so much that i don't know even where to start.

of course death hurts in reality when you lose people you love, or in imagination when you anticipate your own extinction.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. From the Nov 1 WT
by life is to short in
1. jw
2. friends
the november 1st public wt has an article on "do you need to learn hebrew and greek?

" funny is it not that they feel we do not need too.

anywho on page 21 of said wt.