I am having the same problem in trying to open the file. Evidently it is in a zipped form that requires a program that I do not have.
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a new english translation of the septuagint.
oxford university press | 2007-11-02 | isbn: 0195289757 | 1027 pages | pdf | 6 mb.
translated from the hebrew between the third and first centuries b.c., the septuagint became the bible for greek-speaking jews and was widely cited by early christians.
I am having the same problem in trying to open the file. Evidently it is in a zipped form that requires a program that I do not have.
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it was dull.
i could have sworn that i heard the same talk 20 years ago.
witnesses look tired, bored, lifeless.
hi folks,.
i don't have access to a wt library cd-rom, so i was wondering if i could get some assistance.
the theory of resurrection, where every single part of a person is re-created (their memories are remembered by god, they are then re-created into a re-created body), someone from my youtube channel challenged me regarding articles in the wt or awake that state this.
The Watchtower system has an extremely well tuned editorial policy that sifts out any offending terminology, or phraseology that are likely to embarrass the leadership. Hence you will not find, especially among the later issues of Watchtower publications such words as "recreate" or even the latest stumbling block for the GB: "the generation of 1914" [Since 1995, the words "generation" and "1914" are never permitted to be in congruity]
However there is the occasional slip, and in connection with what you asked, I can only find one time when the word "recreate" slipped past the editorial oversight committee. This was the 1977 publication "Life Does Have A Purpose" which on page 175 makes this comment:
"God will accurately recreate each individual with his entire life pattern"
Hope this helps.
i seem to be drawing a blank, but i can't recall what the the "accepted" translation for jw's was pre-nwt?
if it was the kj or one of the other translations favored by christendom, how did the wts work around the translation errors "corrected" by the nwt?...john 1:1, extensive use of jehovah in nt, etc.
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Hi, 10YA: Here are the readings:
Jo 1:1 a The text itself: "In the beginning was the Logos and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God".
The Interlinear: "In a beginning was the Word and the Word was with the God and a god was the Word". [My mum's old copy has a neatly underlined notation saying "compare with original" in the margins.]
Jo 8:58: "Indeed I assure you, Before Abraham was born, I am he"
Acts 20:28: "Take heed to yourselves therefore and to All the FLOCK, among whom the HOLY SPIRIT made you Overseers, to feed the CHURCH of GOD which he acquired by the blood of his own" [The capitals are in the original and refer to a glossary at the back of the book where these words are defined.]
Rev 19:1 "After these things, I heard a loud voice as of a great crowd in HEAVEN saying: "Hallelujah! the SALVATION and the GLORY and the POWER to our God"
Hope this helps.
i seem to be drawing a blank, but i can't recall what the the "accepted" translation for jw's was pre-nwt?
if it was the kj or one of the other translations favored by christendom, how did the wts work around the translation errors "corrected" by the nwt?...john 1:1, extensive use of jehovah in nt, etc.
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According to the testimony of my mum, the Watchtower followers in the early years evidently went through three phases:.
1 In the early years, prior to 1902, the Watchtower followers did not really do any mass evangelism, since this was considered the province of "colporteusrs" or full time reps of the Watchtower. These used the KJV, with Watchtower authorized "explanations" printed at the back like an innocuous appendix. This appendix/explanation contained the Watchtower Received Interpretations of texts such as Jo 1:1, 20:28, etc.
2 From 1902, the Watchtower followers used a sort of Hybrid Bible. They used the KJV for the OT, but stitched to it was the Emphatic Diaglott, the translation of the NT that Russel purchased in that year.
3 In 1944, the Watchtower purchased the printing rights to the ASV Bible, which naturally was better for than the KJV, since this version used "Jehovah" consistently in the OT. Now they carried a new kind of Hybrid Bible. It had the ASV OT, and neatly stitched into it was the ED for the NT.
About the only people who were pleased with this arrangement were the book binders who were kept busy keeping up with the changing light of the Watchtower. Nice little earner for some.
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Will you be formatting the video at some later time so that it could be downloaded to a hard drive, like the others?
i have heard that "paradise" will be achieved gradually; that it will take all of the thousand years to reach that state of perfection.. .
now, while you may be convinced that it will take all that time to bring the earth back to it's pristine state....suppose it applies to humans as well?.
imagine this scenerio: wounds and broken bones heal slowly and gradually; your bags and sags are still there, but since you have seen results of other people, you hang on that the promise will be for you, too.
The nightmare I used to have was that the "new system/order/world" [or whatever the latest nomenclature is] wasn't just going to be a tyranny, but that it was going to be a bureaucratic tyranny. Petty bureaucrats themselves, the current Watchtower leadership love the existence of files and chits, and memos all signed, counter-signed, filed, refiled, circulated, lost, found, refiled again, recirculated, discussed, categorized, in and endless and meaningless cycle and all sufficient to keep even the most abject clerk deliriously happy.
Remember that the "new system,etc" is going to be merely an extension of today's Watchtower arrangement. Hence, who you marry, where you live, how many children you can have, what job you will maintain, the clothes you will wear, will all be determined according to applications signed in triplicate, with several counter signatures, which will then have to be categorized, filed, discussed, processed, circulated, discussed with even more files and then, in the sufficiency of time they will slowly grind their way upward through the bureaucratic chain to be further discussed, added to with even more memos, addendums, riders, circumlocutions, till they reach the top where even further cogitations will be processed, appeals lodged, with sub-sections filled with relevant by-laws needing further clarification being sought, and on and on and on.
By the time an unequivocal decision is made, Satan will be let out of his restraints, making his alternative not so bad an idea after all.
It is not the meek, but the Watchtower bureaucrats who will inherit the earth, and swords won't be beaten into ploughshares, but into pens and reams and reams and reams of paper.
i have my jw bible but also have the good news bible that was used at the lutheran church i went to for about 8 yrs back in the 80's.. one (jw)is hard to read and understand some of the books and the (good news)other is to easy and leaves somethings out, well the jw one does to.. .
o.n..
obviously with no end-time date being out there right now, the wt to motivate members.
stagnation is the word that comes up frequently on the board here, and a currently active member, i see it permeating the dub attitude.
so this week's study article was interesting in that it potentially expands the area where dubs can count their time.
Can someone please clarify something for me? Has the official policy of the Watchtower changed since I left some thirty years ago?
Can an elder now count his hours if he is making a shepherding call on a Watchtower follower who needs some guidance? This was a no-no in my time and even COs refused to do this because no time was counted. "Wasted theocratic time" we called it. If someone was depressed, well, tough. Let him go out on the FS. That'll larn him. Depressed, indeed. What we would do is get these ones out on the service, and counsel them at that time. Kill two birds with one stone, heh? We count the time, and they get counselled, and Bob's your uncle.
Can an elder count his hour that he gives at a public talk? I know the GB members count the time that they posture about the world's stage making elliptical utterances. But local elders? Again that was a no-no in my time. I can see elders grasping for giving talks all over the place. Sure beats trudging from door-to-door in an otherwise meaningless exercise.
The pages from the Jan 15 09 Wt only mentions that these things are part of the Watchtower follower's ministry, but I see no authorization to count the hours. My understanding is that the "brothers" volunteer their services in this way, as a commendable institutionalized way to "minister"
samuel herd, a governing body member says in his speach "the miracle of prayer":.
"god does not answer all prayers.
prayers for world peace, he does not answer them.".
What concerns me is Herd's point no 2. He mentioned that all prayers must be made "in Jesus' name"....Right?
Then I would like to know how an average rank and file Watchtower follower can pray "in Jesus name" when at the same Jesus is not the mediator for that person. Jesus, remember, as far as Watchtower theology is concerned, is the mediator only for the "anointed".
The marvel of praying "in Jesus name" only arises when it is acknowledged that He IS the Mediator. Indeed that text which proclaims Jesus as the Mediator between God and men, is referring to prayer. [1 Tim 2:5, but see verses 1-5]