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  Babylon the Great

  by Godlyman in

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  do jw's still believe that babylon the great is the empire of false religion?

  inquiring minds want to know .

  estephan.

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  Fisherman:

  WT interpretation is quite logical because she is a political consort and could not also be political herself

  Haha. So very obviously wrong. The Roman Empire was explicitly a city with a kingdom over other kings. Compare Revelation 17:18.
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  Babylon the Great

  by Godlyman in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  do jw's still believe that babylon the great is the empire of false religion?

  inquiring minds want to know .

  estephan.

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  Jeffro

  Yes, they still teach that totally wrong interpretation. The Watch Tower Society began using the expression “world empire of false religion” in 1963 (in “Babylon the Great Has Fallen!”, God’s Kingdom Rules!). Prior to that, it associated “Babylon the Great” with ‘Christendom’, further contradicting the claim that special ‘enlightenment’ was provided to them in 1919.

  “Babylon the Great” in Revelation represents ancient Rome, which has been understood for many centuries, and Christians could readily identify “Babylon the Great” as Rome when Revelation was first written. Revelation 17:9 guides the reader to the actual identity of “Babylon the Great”, with its statement that the “seven heads” of the ‘beast’ she rides represent “seven mountains”—the ‘seven hills of Rome’. (Coins minted during the reign of Vespasian depict Roma—a female deity who personified Rome—seated on seven hills.) This would be an obvious clue to 1st-century Christians, who were well aware of Rome as an enemy of Christianity. Additionally, the reference to “disgusting things” at Revelation 17:4 and 5 is reminiscent of the earlier warning to flee Jerusalem before the Roman attack in 70 CE (Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14).

  The Roman Empire oversaw various subordinate client kingdoms, each with its own ‘king’. Judea was itself one such client kingdom, under the jurisdiction of Herod, who is described as a king at Matthew 2:3 and Mark 6:14 using the same Greek term as at Revelation 17:2 (basileus, βασιλεύς, Strong’s G935). Revelation 17:18 accurately describes “Babylon the Great”—that is, ancient Rome—as a city with a kingdom over other kings.

  No mystery, no nonsense.
  
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  Who wrote the book of Hebrews?

  by Fisherman in

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  there are good reasons to belief that paul wrote hebrews.

  i am convinced he wrote it.

  is there any any convincing evidence or argument that can validate the belief?.

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  Who wrote the book of Hebrews?

  by Fisherman in

  1. watchtower
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  there are good reasons to belief that paul wrote hebrews.

  i am convinced he wrote it.

  is there any any convincing evidence or argument that can validate the belief?.

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  Fisherman:

  Paul may have deliberately omitted his name in writing to the Hebrews in Judea, since his name had been made an object of hatred by the Jews there. —Acts 21:28

  The writer of Hebrews was in Italy and was associated with Timothy. These facts fit Paul. —Heb. 13:23, 24

  Haha. I knew in advance that you’d just do a quote grab from the JW “All Scripture” book (page 243). Very bad form not citing your source.

  Those aren’t reasons, they are speculation.
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  Who wrote the book of Hebrews?

  by Fisherman in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  there are good reasons to belief that paul wrote hebrews.

  i am convinced he wrote it.

  is there any any convincing evidence or argument that can validate the belief?.

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  Fisherman:

  There are good reasons to belief that Paul wrote Hebrews.

  Are there? What are they? Authorship was already unknown at the end of the first century and it isn’t in Paul’s style.

  Is there any any convincing evidence or argument that can validate the belief?

  One would expect so, since you say there are good reasons for 'beliefing' it.
  
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  January 2023 Study Watchtower - both sides of the mouth!

  by BoogerMan in

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  i've added to it in bold letters:.

  january 2023 study watchtower, page 20, pars.

  1 - 3.. almost 2,000 years ago, jesus gave his life in our behalf, opening the way for us to gain everlasting life.

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  Jeffro

  It’s interesting (?) that the January 2023 Watchtower gloats about the ‘record attendance’ for the 2021 Memorial. But no mention of attendance for 2022? Have they even released that figure yet (they were already boasting about the figure for 2021 in November of that year)? It was especially easy to ‘attend’ in 2021 and 2022 because no one had to even leave home, but it seems that maybe some lost interest (perhaps a result of no regular in-person meetings)? Unless they’re just keeping everyone in suspense about an even more ‘amazing’ attendance for this year?
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  New method to absolutely date Fall of Jerusalem.

  by waton in

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  for what it is worth to those interested.

  1914.. tel-aviv university.

  "biblical military campaigns reconstructed using geomagnetic field data.

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  Earnest:

  My intention is not to raise a debate about carbon 14 dating, but only to say it is not precise and if the curve of the archaeomagnetic intensity is strongly based on the carbon dating then that, too, is not fixed in stone.

  This would be a very valid point if the archaeomagnetic data and the Bayesian analysis thereof were based on a very small dataset and the researchers had no idea what they were doing.
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  New method to absolutely date Fall of Jerusalem.

  by waton in

  1. social
  2. current

  for what it is worth to those interested.

  1914.. tel-aviv university.

  "biblical military campaigns reconstructed using geomagnetic field data.

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  Fisherman:

  WT conclusions or interpretations are on what the scriptures mean, the best evidence for that is the ancient text.

  Wrong. WT conclusions ignore the plain reading of various Bible verses that directly contradict their interpretation. As such, the Watch Tower Society elevates itself above the Bible.
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  New method to absolutely date Fall of Jerusalem.

  by waton in

  1. social
  2. current

  for what it is worth to those interested.

  1914.. tel-aviv university.

  "biblical military campaigns reconstructed using geomagnetic field data.

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  No. The curve for the archaeomagnetic intensity is based on a broader dataset than would be significantly affected just by changing the assumed date for the Beth-Shean event, and in particular is strongly based on carbon dating for the relevant period in the 10th century BCE.

  This research demonstrates how an archaeointensity curve constructed from a dense archaeomagnetic dataset in which the chronology rests on radiocarbon (for periods before the eighth century BCE) and firm historical ages (from the eighth century BCE and on) can be used as a powerful chronological tool.
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  New method to absolutely date Fall of Jerusalem.

  by waton in

  1. social
  2. current

  for what it is worth to those interested.

  1914.. tel-aviv university.

  "biblical military campaigns reconstructed using geomagnetic field data.

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  Jeffro

  The blue rectangle below indicates the range of archaeomagnetic intensity levels that would be expected for a site burned in 993 BCE. The red dot indicates the level that would be expected for the destruction of Beth-Shean if the Watch Tower Society's chronology were correct.
  

  

  It is a little disappointing that there is a need to explain how to interpret a chart in this thread, but there are others in the thread who are excited that some words are similar to other words, so... 🤷‍♂️