kalunga

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  Article on birthdays in the Bible

  by Leolaia in

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  i just found this in old testament abstracts.

  i'm sure the wts "scholars" will snatch it up in a second.

  since the article is in german, i can't examine what it really says and what its take is on the birthdays in job.. andreas lehnardt, 2003.

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  kalunga

  Is there a link to this abstract, where it can be read??
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  The facts on crucifixion, stauros, and the "torture stake"

  by Leolaia in

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  2. bible

  finally, i will look at biblical and patristic evidence bearing on the crucifixion of jesus in particular.

  we need to examine the earliest known descriptions of the kind of crucifixion adopted by the romans and the specific terms they used to refer to it.

  apparently the society believes that crux still meant "stake" in the second century a.d., when tacitus composed his annals.

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  kalunga

  Yes.

  I was asking this, because we have in the Bible an example of stauros been used to denote an instrument of more than one piece of wood... Just the contrary of what the Watchtower preachs.

  This can stand as a "quick answer" to JWs... They can deny Seneca (believe me, they can make it), but not the Bible...

  I saw in a NWT with commentaries in portuguese, that they have more quotes...

  One is from Die Kreuz und die Kreuzigung (I forgot the Author), and Die Geschischte Jesu (I forgot the autor too...), and a quote (with elipsis) from Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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  Judicial commities in Brazil

  by gringojj in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i asked a similar question a couple days ago and the thread went off course.

  my question is does anyone know how the wts hold is kept over the people in the rapidly growing areas of the world?

  i would imagine the hold they have over the people there is less.

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  kalunga

  I'm actually writting from Brazil.

  The situation here is interesting... As someone said, there isn't a lot of ex-JWs here. The JWs here doesn't know nothing about pedofily among JWs of USA, and other news like that...

  There is here only one or two books in portuguese talking about JWs, but there's a lot of sites. As everybody knows, JWs can't see these kind of things...
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  The facts on crucifixion, stauros, and the "torture stake"

  by Leolaia in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  finally, i will look at biblical and patristic evidence bearing on the crucifixion of jesus in particular.

  we need to examine the earliest known descriptions of the kind of crucifixion adopted by the romans and the specific terms they used to refer to it.

  apparently the society believes that crux still meant "stake" in the second century a.d., when tacitus composed his annals.

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  kalunga

  It's an old topic, and an interesting one!

  I'll post a question about this matter, that came to me reading this topic... It's about something that Watchtower allways claims:

  An important reason is that Jesus Christ did not die on a cross. The Creek word generally translated “cross” is stau-ros’. It basically means “an upright pale or stake.” The Companion Bible points out: “[Stau-ros’] never means two pieces of timber placed across one another at any angle … There is nothing in the Creek of the [New Testament] even to imply two pieces of timber.”

  So, the first assertion is that stauros doesn't mean an instrument constituted of two or more pieces of wood... It only means a stake, all right?

  But, isn't the stauros of Christ constituted at least of a titulus?

  (Mark 15:26) And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

  So, even if a crux simplex was used, it was constituted of more than one piece of wood... Am I right?