http://www.watchtower.org/library/na/article_02.htm.
when it came to god's name, instead of putting the proper vowel signs around it, in most cases they put other vowel signs to remind the reader that he should say 'adhonai'.
from this came the spelling iehouah, and, eventually, jehovah became the accepted pronunciation of the divine name in english.
should change Jesus to YeSHuAh too while you are at it.....
I see nothing wrong with the JWs using Jehovah in english, but
in the GREEK truth book, they use IXOBA which has no history and
the actual accepted greek version from very near if not the first century is IOBE which is very close to YahVeh
which made me see JWs were not interested in keeping it historical as they claimed.
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moon responsibility for life forming on earth.
i think there may not be any more life anywhere else.. moon
there was a recent science show, I think on discovery channel, showing how a planet could actually orbit close enough to a red dwarf star and having no moon, would stay with one side always pointing to that star.... they did computer modeling and unlike their initial guessing, they found a life band could exist on such a world where life like our own could arise.
genesis 6:5-7, 8:21. god decides to send a great flood to kill all humans, save noah and his family, because man's heart is evil.
"and god saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.... and the lord said, i will destroy man whom i have created from the face of the earth.".
later, after the flood waters recede, god promises never to do it again because man's heart is evil.
the true nature of reality is what it does and is always perfect until you compare it to something it is not....
the bible god is ignorant [genesis 18:20-21] makes rash decisions that he can be talked out of [exodus 32:14]
and often angered which means pained by injury to ideals or goals?? [more evidence of ignorance]
the bible shows the hand of man rather than the hand of God...there is nothing in it that I know of that was beyond man's understanding
and quite a bit substandard to man's current understanding.
ive been doing some research latley in the christian church on the calvinism vs arminian debate.
and im just curious to what the jw believe on this..example .
calvinism: .
the main problem I see with calvinist view is that an all knowing eternal being who sits outside of time and watches it all at once is also unable to create or alter what he is viewing as there was never any moment when he did not see it just as it is.... so he could not have designed it, purposed it or alter it in any way.... making this god the observer and a useless being.
since i discovered the 4th dimension, one of the conclusions i have reached is, the 4th dimension is an infinite access to the truth.
throughout this website, i use the term "i wish" - it is really a way to voice a person's desire - and from the work i have done - it really works.
from the saying: "ask and you shall receive", i have understood that any human being can make an infinity of "wishes" and receive the truth (the correct answer) to every question they may have, in the form of a dream - that same night.
those who believe all times exist from a higher dimensional point of view, seem to ignore the fact that if there were so, then no moemnt would be priveldged as THE PRESENT MOMENT and nothing observered would be in motion, there would only be static moments...and so motion as we live and perceive it would be impossible for us unless we were higher dimensional beings reading our lives as if we were reading a book.
in another thread the question of a person's memories being placed within a re-created body has been discussed.
the possibility was raised that what if two bodies were created, and the person's memories were placed in both bodies?
which re-created person would be the continuation of the original person?.
znThe seed of the women is not tainted, it's the seed of man that is the problem.
Gen 3:15
And I shall put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will bruise you in the head and you will bruise him in the heel."D Dog
sorry, this has nothing to do with females being carriers of sin or not.... if sin is something genetically transmitted, then females are no more perfect than males and mary's seed, unless you believe the catholic belief system [BS] regarding her immaculate conception, is tainted too.
in another thread the question of a person's memories being placed within a re-created body has been discussed.
the possibility was raised that what if two bodies were created, and the person's memories were placed in both bodies?
which re-created person would be the continuation of the original person?.
for JE zus to be perfect he could not have had any of Mary's tainted DNA and so he was not of DAVID or anyone else human according to the flesh and might as well have been made completely adult like Adam and forgo the charade of growing up as a typical mild mannered reporter for the daily planet, etc.
since i discovered the 4th dimension, one of the conclusions i have reached is, the 4th dimension is an infinite access to the truth.
throughout this website, i use the term "i wish" - it is really a way to voice a person's desire - and from the work i have done - it really works.
from the saying: "ask and you shall receive", i have understood that any human being can make an infinity of "wishes" and receive the truth (the correct answer) to every question they may have, in the form of a dream - that same night.
there is something very bizzarre about how time is viewed by most people....
they have this bizzarre notion that other moment in time still exist or exist already before they have happened....
and that if there were a god in reality he could scan ahead and see the future.... I used to believe this way, and I find it very common still
I am totally amazing how easy it is to believe in this view of time.....
but time is not a dimension like space... space is a measurement of distance in 3 axises but time is a measure of changing relationship amoung objects that do not grow nor shrink in number.... what I mean is that my car moving down the highway does not leave copies of itself behind nor does it gobble up phantom copies ahead of it as it moves along the road.... instead my relationship with every other element of the universe is changing and that can be standardized by reference to stable repeating countable events such as the mechanisms of a clock or the location of the sun in the sky etc....
this idea that God, is outside of time and able to see the future is absurd, the future does not, by definition exist outside of really bad guesswork on our part and even on the part of any actual god.... the reason for that is not too obvious, but comes from the necessity to slice experiences into viewable frames... or sampling... you cannot infinitely sample and because of this there are gaps of knowledge which exponetially increase and after just a few minutes, all attempts to accurately guess what is coming fade out to noise...and not even a god can get around this....
the bible god is not all knowing [see genesis 18:20-21] and to my knowledge never claimed anywhere in the bible to be so.... most of his grandeous pronouncements concerning the future were related to his ABILITY to perform or carry them out...not his psychic foreknowledge... most prophecies begin with THIS IS WHAT I WILL DO, etc....
those which seem like foreknowledge are just human silliness creeping into the myths as it always does.
since i discovered the 4th dimension, one of the conclusions i have reached is, the 4th dimension is an infinite access to the truth.
throughout this website, i use the term "i wish" - it is really a way to voice a person's desire - and from the work i have done - it really works.
from the saying: "ask and you shall receive", i have understood that any human being can make an infinity of "wishes" and receive the truth (the correct answer) to every question they may have, in the form of a dream - that same night.
everyone knows the dimension of wishes is the twilightzone and that is the 5th dimension
ive been doing some research latley in the christian church on the calvinism vs arminian debate.
and im just curious to what the jw believe on this..example .
calvinism: .
JWs believe in a willfully ignorant god [genesis 18:20-21] who does not know all things by choice.
in this way they believe that what is foreordained and predestined is the type of people, not the individuals who would make up that type.
they believe that no one comes to Jesus lest the father draws them....meaning those who see what sort of nazi molevolant god Jehovah is and think he is the $#!+ will likely find Jesus the way to go and respond to his message of lovingly kiss my @$$ or else!
those who do respond to this message must ENDURE to the end... or as Paul put it, to strive for the prize.... while their works will not save them, their lack of faithful works will damn them.
those who tasted of the heavenly free gift and turned their back on them are eternally doomed, etc.
