Something given away for free or sometimes just dumped doesn’t have to be popular. And a 32 (or more recently 16) page magazine made with free labour is not really comparable to magazines with hundreds of pages.
Posts by Jeffro
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14Facts or Biasedness?
by Ardian inthe watchtower and awake have been listed as the most popular magazines.the figures are astonishing.
i am not sure whether it is based on reality or not.. source: https://tingtopten.com/2020/01/top-10-most-popular-magazines-in-the-world/.
i have seen the link on many social media networks.
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Did Isaiah even predict Cyrus' name 150 years ago?
by pokertopia indid isaiah even predict cyrus' name 150 years ago?.
there were two types of prophets: individual prophets and court prophets.
for example, before ahab went to war, 400 court prophets predicted ahab's victory, but michaya, an individual prophet, predicted his defeat.
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Jeffro
🤦♂️ The Jews weren’t the only ones who were allowed to go home and rebuild temples. The claim that the Jews were given special treatment by Cyrus is simply false and your sources for the claim that Cyrus gave the Jews special attention are obviously biased, with no independent corroboration. You put far too much stock in subjective stories.
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Did Isaiah even predict Cyrus' name 150 years ago?
by pokertopia indid isaiah even predict cyrus' name 150 years ago?.
there were two types of prophets: individual prophets and court prophets.
for example, before ahab went to war, 400 court prophets predicted ahab's victory, but michaya, an individual prophet, predicted his defeat.
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Jeffro
Fallacy: shifting the burden of proof.
Later Jewish traditions are not evidence of anything Cyrus did, and the Cyrus Cylinder indicates that Cyrus focused more on Mesopotamian groups including placating the people of Babylon. Repatriation of other captives also occurred as a general policy but no special attention was given to the Jews.
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Did Isaiah even predict Cyrus' name 150 years ago?
by pokertopia indid isaiah even predict cyrus' name 150 years ago?.
there were two types of prophets: individual prophets and court prophets.
for example, before ahab went to war, 400 court prophets predicted ahab's victory, but michaya, an individual prophet, predicted his defeat.
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Jeffro
🤦♂️ For a start, the Cyrus Cylinder doesn’t mention the Jews at all let alone suggest they got special treatment.
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Did Isaiah even predict Cyrus' name 150 years ago?
by pokertopia indid isaiah even predict cyrus' name 150 years ago?.
there were two types of prophets: individual prophets and court prophets.
for example, before ahab went to war, 400 court prophets predicted ahab's victory, but michaya, an individual prophet, predicted his defeat.
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Jeffro
he clVidqun:
Overall Josephus was a trustworthy historian. According to him Cyrus was aware of the Isaiah prophecy. This made him favor the Jews, allowing them to return to their homeland and rebuild the temple. Later Darius discovered Cyrus' edict and he allowed the Jews to carry on with their work. In the end the temple was rebuilt.
Josephus repeating a Jewish tradition that existed by his time is not evidence that Cyrus or Darius actually said something or why. For a start, Cyrus did not make any special edict just for the Jews, but had a broader policy of allowing captives in Babylonia to return to their homelands and practice their own religious beliefs. This was in order to quell social unrest, for the same reason that Cyrus dedicated a temple to Marduk in Babylon.
3 for he stirred up the mind of Cyrus, and made him write this throughout all Asia:--``Thus says Cyrus the king: Since God Almighty has appointed me to be king of the habitable earth, I believe that he is that God which the nation of the Israelites worship;
4 for indeed he foretold my name by the prophets, and that I should build him a house at Jerusalem, in the country of Judea.''Antiquities here interpolates part of Isaiah 44:28-45:1 (not written by Isaiah) into Ezra 1:2 rather than actually quoting Cyrus. The fact that Josephus interpolated the claim about Cyrus knowing of the supposed 'prophecy' (or quoted a Jewish tradition that had developed after the writing of Ezra) into the statement in Ezra is evident from the fact that the 'quote' in Antiquities isn't even consistent with what Ezra 1:1 says Cyrus proclaimed, and neither is consistent with Cyrus' broader policy rather than special treatment of just the Jews.
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God and Unicorns
by Sea Breeze inatheist scientists now agree that "elasmotherium sibiricu" lived with humans.
all they had to do was read their bible to know that.
job 39:9 “will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?”.
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Jeffro
Anony Mous:
This is what makes natural diamonds so rare and expensive.
No, that would be the DeBeers corporation. 😂
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God and Unicorns
by Sea Breeze inatheist scientists now agree that "elasmotherium sibiricu" lived with humans.
all they had to do was read their bible to know that.
job 39:9 “will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?”.
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Jeffro
Sea Breeze:
DNA only has a half-life of 521 years
🤦♂️ This appears to be a hasty generalisation lifted from pop-science reporting. DNA doesn't have a prescribed 'half-life', such as in the manner of radioactive decay. The viability of a DNA sample depends on the conditions in which it were preserved. A sample of DNA could be destroyed instantly or be preserved for millions of years depending on the conditions.
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God and Unicorns
by Sea Breeze inatheist scientists now agree that "elasmotherium sibiricu" lived with humans.
all they had to do was read their bible to know that.
job 39:9 “will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?”.
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Jeffro
The word rendered as 'unicorn' in some translations refers to the rhinoceros (and rendered as such in the Vulgate). (Also, the scientific name of the Indian rhinoceros is Rhinoceros unicornis, but there is no requirement that the term used in the Bible refers only to that species). The picture in the initial post also refers to an extinct species of rhinoceros. And it doesn't look anything like unicorns as rendered in popular culture.
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Did Isaiah even predict Cyrus' name 150 years ago?
by pokertopia indid isaiah even predict cyrus' name 150 years ago?.
there were two types of prophets: individual prophets and court prophets.
for example, before ahab went to war, 400 court prophets predicted ahab's victory, but michaya, an individual prophet, predicted his defeat.
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Jeffro
pokertopia:
Good grief. 🤦♂️🤣This article was forced by A.I. to be seen only by me and the moderators, are you a moderator?
It makes me feel that this social system is a violent evil structure that takes away human freedom and individual rights.
This system is bound to be put right. I believe that a transparent system is God's Kingdom.
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Did Isaiah even predict Cyrus' name 150 years ago?
by pokertopia indid isaiah even predict cyrus' name 150 years ago?.
there were two types of prophets: individual prophets and court prophets.
for example, before ahab went to war, 400 court prophets predicted ahab's victory, but michaya, an individual prophet, predicted his defeat.
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Jeffro
The Book of Isaiah is composed of three sections.
Chapters 1-39 - written by Isaiah (late 8th century BCE), though passages about the downfall of Babylon actually relate to Assyrian dominance over Babylon during the Neo-Assyrian period which began in the 8th century BCE during the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III. These are frequently retroactively ascribed by believers to the Persian defeat of Babylon (where the fact that Babylon is still inhabited is either ignored or glossed over with various trite excuses).
Chapters 40-55 - written near the end of the Babylonian exile or shortly after the initial return in 538 BCE. This section includes reference to Cyrus and the Persian defeat of Babylon.
Chapters 56-66 - a post-exilic work.