one of the points ray franz brought out in both his books is that most of the early literature is out of print and simply unavailable to jehovah's witnesses (or anyone else) today.. would there be any copyright issues involved in setting up a website, or an addition to this website (just a scenario) with a database of all this old leterature?
are writings from 100 years ago considered public domain now?.
i realize it would be a massive undertaking but with so many people contributing literature from their own collections.... .
I think the magazine "Golden Age" was like a 1930s precursor to "Awake!". It was edited by a person who had the strangest "medical" ideas, although he did not carry on about the medical use of blood. I recall seeing an article (possibly from the late 30s/early 40s) which lauded the fact that a woman's life was saved through that procedure.
Apologies for the lack of detail, but I do not have them immediately to hand.
Doug
questions from jwn readers.
1914 is a date that many people question.
this is equal to 3.5 lunar years of 360 days.
Actually it should be:
We think the first Returnees rededicated the temple site in 537 BCE. We think this marked the end of the 70 Years.
And:
We think that Judea became devoid of every person when a group of them entered Egypt. We think this marked the start of the 70 years. We think this happened in the same year that Jerusalem was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar.
Doug
let say noah did manage to get all the species into the ark... about half of them would have been predators and the other half natural prey.. are we going to belive that they went without eating for 40 days and nights?
or the ridiculous theory as the wt would have it that noah fed them nice tasty bales of straw which they happily munched on?.
and even if one of these two exhuses were true, when the animals were let out of the ark into a world now deverstated by a flood, then wouldn't they have continued eating eachother???
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does anyone have a copy of the 1897 studies in the scriptures, or a scan?
i particularly am after page 342. .
I can only offer differences between a 1902 MD and a 1924 SS:
http://www.jwstudies.com/Changed_MD_and_SS_words.pdf
Give it a while to download and format (6.4 meg file).
Doug
does anyone here think this command still applies in force today as it did 2000 years ago?.
Mary,
Paul did not write Ephesians.
It was penned some 50 years after he died, and a forger made out that it was written by Paul. That was the only way he could get his abominable position accepted.
The writer of Ephesians was wrong, but it was not Paul who wrote it.
The decision on the writings that would make up the NT was not made until the 4th century, and the Roman Emperors at the time were involved. Their acceptance of Ephesians was not their only mistake.
Doug
does anyone here think this command still applies in force today as it did 2000 years ago?.
Women were a part of the group of disciples who followed Jesus as he preached. The Scripture makes it plain that the women provided the financial support to Jesus and his followers:
Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him, and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; Joanna the wife of Cuza, the manager of Herod’shousehold; Susanna; and many others. These women were helping to support them out of their own means. (Luke 8:1-3, NIV)
Doug
does anyone here think this command still applies in force today as it did 2000 years ago?.
Paul wrote that in God's sight, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus". (Gal 3:28, NIV)
Paul used women in important roles.
Ephesians was written near the end of the first century, about 50 years after Paul died. It was written by a mysoginist who wanted to get his ideas accepted, so he pretended that the letter to the Ephesians was written by Paul.
This unacceptable process of forgery, of pretending that Paul wrote things that he did not write, happened with other NT writings, including Colossians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus and Hebrews.
For example, since Paul fully expected Jesus to return in his own day, while he was still alive, he urged people not to marry, nor was he concerned at organisational structure. However, towards the end of the first century, when it became painfully aware that Paul's expectations of an imminent return would not be fulfilled, the ecclesias started to speak about organising theselves (elders, etc.), even saying that the leader had to be married; they also tried to silence women and told them their purpose was to be subservient and pregnant.
Thus, not only did these later ideas not come from Paul, and are contrary to his teachings, they were fraudently put forward as having been written by Paul.
Doug
when i was a jw, the key issue that caused me to doubt the wt was the trinity.
the wtb&ts's blatent misquotations and misrepresentations of religious scholarship to fit their anti-trinitarian presuppositions are horrid and inexcusable.
that issue, however, was not the issue that caused me to become a christian.
i can't found any topic in this forum about this verse.
may be you can enlightened me.. zec 12:10 and i will pour out on the house of david and the inhabitants of jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication.
they will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
If you were prepared to read that challenging chapter that I presented in my previous post on this Thread, then you would appreciate the challenges presented in this subsequent chapter.
If however you are not prepared to have your beliefs challenged, do not read this.
http://www.jwstudies.com/Spong_resurrection_ascension.pdf
Doug
when i was a jw, the key issue that caused me to doubt the wt was the trinity.
the wtb&ts's blatent misquotations and misrepresentations of religious scholarship to fit their anti-trinitarian presuppositions are horrid and inexcusable.
that issue, however, was not the issue that caused me to become a christian.
