There is an interlinear greek/hebrew bible you can download online. It's a small program with somewhat of a learning curve. It's free and I use it a lot. I know it isn't a physical book -- but you may like it anyways. For being free it's quite a helpful resource.
http://www.scripture4all.org/
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Need Help: A good Greek New Testament?
by lovelylil inhi friends,.
i am taking a short course to learn new testament greek and i need my own copy of a greek new testament.
i thought i could use the kit book from the wt but bible scholars say there are too many errors in it.
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MySpace sued over sexual abuse cases
by Morocco inmyspace sued over sexual abuse cases .
january 18, 2007 .
associated press .
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MySpace sued over sexual abuse cases
by Morocco inmyspace sued over sexual abuse cases .
january 18, 2007 .
associated press .
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can i sue god?
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MySpace sued over sexual abuse cases
by Morocco inmyspace sued over sexual abuse cases .
january 18, 2007 .
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MySpace sued over sexual abuse cases
January 18, 2007
Associated press
NEW YORK — Four families have sued News Corp. and its MySpace social-networking site after their underage daughters were sexually abused by adults they met on the site, lawyers for the families said Thursday.
The law firms, Barry & Loewy LLP of Austin, Texas, and Arnold & Itkin LLP of Houston, said families from New York, Texas, Pennsylvania and South Carolina filed separate suits Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging negligence, recklessness, fraud and negligent misrepresentation by the companies.
“In our view, MySpace waited entirely too long to attempt to institute meaningful security measures that effectively increase the safety of their underage users,” said Jason A. Itkin, an Arnold & Itkin lawyer.
The families are seeking monetary damages “in the millions of dollars,” Itkin said.
“Hopefully these lawsuits can spur MySpace into action and prevent this from happening to another child somewhere,” he said.
MySpace, based in Los Angeles, did not immediately return calls for comment.
Critics including parents, school officials and police have been increasingly warning of online predators at sites like MySpace, where youth-oriented visitors are encouraged to expand their circles of friends using free messaging tools and personal profile pages.
MySpace has responded with added educational efforts and partnerships with law enforcement. The company has also placed restrictions on how adults may contact younger users on MySpace, while developing technologies such as one announced Wednesday to let parents see some aspects of their child’s online profile, including the stated age. That tool is expected this summer.
The lawyers who filed the latest lawsuits said the plaintiffs include a 15-year-old girl from Texas who was lured to a meeting, drugged and assaulted in 2006 by an adult MySpace user, who is currently serving a 10-year sentence in Texas after pleading guilty to sexual assault.
The others are a 15-year-old girl from Pennsylvania, a 14-year-old from upstate New York and two South Carolina sisters, ages 14 and 15.
Last June, the mother of a 14-year-old who says she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old user sued MySpace and News Corp., seeking $30 million in damages. That lawsuit, pending in a Texas state court, claims the 19-year-old lied about being a senior in high school to gain her trust and phone number.
News Corp. shares hit a new 52-week high of $24.07 in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange before slipping back to $23.98, up 28 cents.
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I watch dateline, so I am fully aware of the "internet predator" problem out there. Apparently these unintelligent, primitive, horney old farts can't control themselves from abusing young girls. It's wrong, sure, but what about the responsibility of the god forsaken parents?! Where the heck are the parents? Why aren't they restricting their daughter's usage? Why aren't they teaching her not to meet people online, or at least screening her friends? This isn't myspace's fault, you can trick the system, this is the parent's fault. And if the parents did all they could to prevent it, but their child was rebellious, then it's the child's fault AND the parent's for the inability to get through to the kid. If my kid was kidnapped in the mall, I would be trying to find the person who took them and beat the life from them, but I sure as heck wouldn't sue the mall. That would be MY fault. God, stuff like this makes me so mad because it seems like everyone is blind to where responsibility should be in matters like this. It's not like myspace was ENCOURAGING this, shit happens, make sure you know what the heck your kids are doing. -
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If Jesus could talk to Satan...
by AuldSoul inconsider the scene: jesus has just been baptized and immediately leaves for an extended stay in the wilderness all on his lonesome.
now ... already this is something the governing body would discourage any jw from doing, but i digress.. along comes satan.
jesus knows it is satan, because of how satany he is.
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I actually had a similar conversation with a witness friend. I was asking her why "bad association" is so bad. I made the point that, if you have faith in God, and God won't let you be "tested beyond what you can bear", then what exactly is the probelm? Doesn't this line of logic basically say that with faith you are immune? Satan will "flee from you"? She argued the point that Jesus wasn't making friends, he was preaching. As long as you are preaching it's okay to talk to worldly people. Then she resorted to "you need to talk to the elders because they will surely have the correct answers." Basically she didn't answer my question and her brain froze like a deer in headlights. Hm.
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Governing Body; Old/New Light
by Mikeus ini know that sometime, somewhere the gb has claimed to be "jehovah's channel of truth" and given divine knowledge/revelation directly from angels.
could someone please provide me with some quotes?.
i'm speaking with a jw right now who says they don't care if the gb has made changes/mistakes in doctrine in the past because it's "old light".
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*** Watchtower 1972 April 1 p.197 ***
They Shall Know that a Prophet Was Among Them
People today can view the creative works. They have at hand the Bible, but it is little read or understood. So, does Jehovah have a prophet to help them, to warn them of dangers and to declare things to come?
IDENTIFYING THE "PROPHET"
These questions can be answered in the affirmative. Who is this prophet? ... This "prophet" was not one man, but was a body of men and women. It was the small group of footstep followers of Jesus Christ, known at that time as International Bible Students. Today they are known as Jehovah's Christian witnesses. ... Of course, it is easy to say that this group acts as a "prophet" of God. It is another thing to prove it. The only way that this can be done is to review the record.
*** Our Kingdom Ministry September 2002***
5 God's Appointed Channel: Bear in mind that our heavenly Father has an appointed channel of communication, "the faithful and discreet slave." That "slave" has the responsibility to determine what information is made available to the household of faith, as well as "the proper time" for it to be dispensed. This spiritual food is available only through the theocratic organization. We should always look to God's appointed channel for reliable information, not to a network of Internet users. — Matt.24:45.
***Watchtower 1964 May 1 - Building a Firm Foundation in Christ***
8 ... It is through the columns of The Watchtower that Jehovah provides direction and constant Scriptural counsel to his people,...
***Watchtower 2/15/1960 - Staying Awake with the "Faithful and Discreet Slave" ***
2 ...The facts show that during this time and up to the present hour the "slave" class has served as God's sole collective channel for the flow of Biblical truth to men on earth. ...
***Watchtower 1/15/1959 - Down with the Old—Up with the New!***
Jehovah’s witnesses are deeply grateful today that the plain facts show that God has been pleased to use them. All the preaching and all the Bible educational work that they have done till now in 175 countries and islands of the sea they confess has been, not by help of a military army, nor by human power, but by God’s spirit, his invisible active force. (Zech. 4:6, AV) It has been because Jehovah thrust out his hand of power and touched their lips and put his words in their mouths. It has evidently been because he commissioned them to be over the nations and over the kingdoms
***Watchtower 6/15/1957 - Overseers of Jehovah’s People***
7a Let us now unmistakably identify Jehovah’s channel of communication for our day, that we may continue in his favor.
7b It is vital that we appreciate this fact and respond to the directions of the “slave” as we would to the voice of God, because it is His provision. -
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All not in WT are Antichrist article anyone know of it???
by Gordy ini've been looking for a watchtower article that was posted a while ago, stated basically that all those who are not jw's are the antichrist.
it was from one of last years wt mags.
tried search but can't seem to find it.
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This is kind of old, and it doesn't explicitly say it, but I just so happened to have this laying around. The first paragraph suggests that all apostates, or anyone who is not inside the congregation, makes up the antichrist.
*** w86 7/15 pp. 13-14 Keep Walking in Divine Light ***
Guard Against Apostasy
20 John now warns against antichrists. (Read 1 John 2:18, 19.) He reminds fellow believers that from the apostles they “heard that antichrist is coming.” The appearance of “many antichrists” proved that it was the “last hour,” the final part of the apostolic period. Although those ‘against Christ’ formed a composite “antichrist,” many individual antichrists pretended to worship God but “were not of our sort” and abandoned true Christianity. We are glad that the departure or expulsion of such ones today prevents corruption of the congregation.
21 Apostate views are rejected by loyal spirit-begotten Christians. Since “an anointing from the holy one,” Jehovah, helps them to understand his Word, ‘all of them have knowledge.’ (Read 1 John 2:20, 21.) They surely know “the truth” as it relates to Jesus Christ, whereas the apostates have erroneous ideas about him. Since “no lie originates with the truth,” all lovers of Jehovah reject such false views and those advocating them.
22 After all, “who is the liar if it is not the one that denies that Jesus is the Christ,” God’s Anointed One? (Read 1 John 2:22-25.) Why, ‘the one that denies the Father and the Son is the antichrist’! Interestingly, when an early associate of Bible student Charles T. Russell denied the ransom, Russell withdrew from fellowship with him and began publishing this journal, which has always declared the truth about Christ’s origin, Messianic role, and loving service as the “propitiatory sacrifice.”
23 Apostates who deny Christ do not have Jehovah as their Friend. (John 5:23) But we who publicly ‘confess the Son have the Father,’ being in an approved relationship with God. (Matthew 10:32, 33) Jesus’ loyal early followers clung to what they had heard about God’s Son “from the beginning” of their lives as Christians. And if the same truth is in our hearts, we will “abide in union” with both God and Christ and will receive “the promised thing,” everlasting life.—John 17:3. -
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This video is what's wrong with the whole world
by Morocco indisclaimer: this isn't a racial thing, i am white but i have african-american friends.
this is a human thing.
to me this video speaks volumes about why war and violence exist.
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Think about what this kid will teach his own children when he grows up. I just hope that both of those children will one day realize that those "adults" were terribly wrong in their actions and they won't pass it on to their kids. This kind of stuff is a virus that, through education, needs to be exterminated with extreme prejudice.
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This video is what's wrong with the whole world
by Morocco indisclaimer: this isn't a racial thing, i am white but i have african-american friends.
this is a human thing.
to me this video speaks volumes about why war and violence exist.
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DISCLAIMER: This isn't a racial thing, I am white but I have african-american friends. This is a human thing. To me this video speaks volumes about why war and violence exist. I want everyone's reaction to this video. I want to let others know that this kind of child abuse goes on right under our noses and nobody is doing anything on a national level to stop this insanity. If children are our future, and we don't stop this, we won't have a future.
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Dualism in the Bible -- How The Hebrews Saw Good and Evil
by Morocco ingood and bad .
by: jeff a. benner .
very few sermons in our western synagogues and churches would include the passage "i [god] form the light and create darkness, i make peace and i create evil, i am the lord who does all of these" (isaiah 45:7) as our western mind sees these two forces as opposing opposites while the eastern mind sees them both as equals and necessary for perfect balance.
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Narkissos: Dualism suits the default binary "logic" of our minds. Yes or no. Either / or. Unfortunately it hardly suits anything else and the more we indulge in it the more it makes us blind to reality as an endless flow of shapes and colours and differences.
I disagree. I think that since good and evil are so polarized that they would better suit binary logic. Good, evil. Black, white. 1, 0. I think dualism, not only in god but also in nature or the universe would be ill-suited for a binary logic because it is the between space, the fractional matters, that hold the truth. It's the interaction of two separate things, not those things themselves.
Just out of curiosity, how do you come to the opinion that a sense of dualism fits binary thought and doesn't suit anything but that?