Posts by Kristofer

Yeah, I tried to convince my ex of the idea...but I guess it was Satan speaking through me. I thought I'd be aware if the Prince of Darkness was using me.

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would the passage from new world translation be a miss print....because in the holy bible the word is god......so if god is not capitalized..then what god is the book referring to...because there is only one father and one living god witch is jesus...... .

please help me , because this has been puzzling me...... .

new world translation of the holy scriptures new world translation of the holy scriptures .

Kristofer

JosephMalik!

How do you come about entering "Human Race" into the interpretation? That seems as bad as what the WT is doing.

Does anyone see a lot of faulty logic in these posts?

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Living in a divided home

by 24k in

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let me start off by saying that i love my wife dearly.

she is, and has always been my best friend.

she is a devoted wife and a wonderful mother.

Kristofer

Coondog, I envy what you have.

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Wow that UN scandal really DOES work wonders

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i'm totally amazed.

i gave that un report to my (hardcore jw to the extreme max, but in a nice way) aunt, and she didn't speak of it for several days.

when she said nothing, i knew i'd gotten somewhere.. today she finally spoke up.

Kristofer

dozy, can you provide references where the WT publications speak favorably of the UN?

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The Trinity... is it a false teaching as the WTBTS claims?

by Honesty in

in the old testament god revealed himself to his chosen people, the israelites as i am:.

ex 3:14-15 - god replied to moses, i am who i am.

this is what you are to say to the israelites: i am .

Kristofer

Firstborn? Many Bibles accurately translate Col. 1:15 as the "source" of all creation. I believe even the original 1950 edition of the NWT translated this as source. I don't think firstborn holds much water since there are more times when firstborn refers to one who presides over something than actually being the first one born. See Ephraim & Menasseh, King David etc..

So when John says and God was the Word, is this not correct?
I don't think the word "savior" applies to an office as president does. It's not like you a savior one day and not another day. I think it's clear throughout the NT that Christ applies the same titles of Yahweh to himself. Lord of Lords, The Almighty, First & Last, Alpha & Omega.

As far as using the word "god" with a little "g", the Greek makes no distinction between lowercase and capitals, that is an English application.

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i have a question

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would the passage from new world translation be a miss print....because in the holy bible the word is god......so if god is not capitalized..then what god is the book referring to...because there is only one father and one living god witch is jesus...... .

please help me , because this has been puzzling me...... .

new world translation of the holy scriptures new world translation of the holy scriptures .

Kristofer

KW13, yes...all the time.

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The worst films you watched

by greendawn in

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we often talk about the best films that we have seen but what about the opposite, what were some films that really disappointed you either at the cinema or at home watching them from a dvd (or vhs though that got outdated now)?

one film i found very boring was the "horse whisperer".

Kristofer

Ultraviolet. I couldn't believe this was actually in a movie theater. I couldn't help but explode in laughter as Ieft the theater...and the movie wasn't funny.

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i have a question

by brandon_the many in

would the passage from new world translation be a miss print....because in the holy bible the word is god......so if god is not capitalized..then what god is the book referring to...because there is only one father and one living god witch is jesus...... .

please help me , because this has been puzzling me...... .

new world translation of the holy scriptures new world translation of the holy scriptures .

Kristofer

Correct.

They used their theology to translate the scriptures rather than letting the scriptures dictate their theology.

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The Trinity... is it a false teaching as the WTBTS claims?

by Honesty in

in the old testament god revealed himself to his chosen people, the israelites as i am:.

ex 3:14-15 - god replied to moses, i am who i am.

this is what you are to say to the israelites: i am .

Kristofer

THere was recently another posting with this line of reasoning...

I think you're trying to put Almighty God into finite terms, which I think is an impossibility. The closest I can come is you took a lit candle flame from a fire. It is separate, but essentially still a part of the fire, is it not? This is how I think of God and it is how the early Christians (i.e. Justin Martyr) viewed the Trinity as well.

If the pharisees were mistaken in their analogy, wouldn't Christ have told them they were mistaken?

Also regarding Savior, are you suggesting that Jesus didn't have a pre-existence before his human birth? To say he was not the savior before his birth is to imply that he wasn't in existence.

Do you believe that Christ is eternal? or created? Scripture states, he was before all things and created all things. If he was an object of creation, then this statement would be false. He can't be a thing if he was before all things. What is the only object we know that is above being a thing in terms that we understand. That being, that concept that essence is what we know as God who made himself manifest in 3 different ways. As Father, as Son and as Holy Spirit, separate but co-existent and co-equal.