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  1 Tim 2:11-15 Subjection: Is Paul's reasoning flawed?

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  a woman should learn in quietness and full submission.

  i do not permit a woman to teach, or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.

  for adam was created first, then eve.

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  John19:25-27 Who was the disciple Jesus loved?

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  hi guys,.

  i've just been reading through john's account of jesus' crucifixion and came accross the following verse;.

  near the cross of jesus stood his mother, his mothers sister, mary the wife of clopas and mary magdalene.

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  John The Baptist. More than a Prophet?

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  in bite me's recent post about the virgin birth i raised some serious questions which make us doubt that jesus was conceived by gods holy spirit.

  my research over the last few years, since leaving jw's has led me to believe jesus was just a ordinary man, and to me that makes his sacrifice even more powerful.

  this post raises similar questions and challenges what we actually know about john the baptist and the part he played in jesus' life.. in islam, john the baptist and jesus are as important as one another and in arabic, the language of the qur'an, john is known as yahya the infinite.

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  Acts 15. What is meant by Fornication

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  at atcs 15 we find the familir decision of the jerusalem elders;.

  keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication.. i have always thought that fornication, or sexual imorality was a strage thing for the elders to come up with here, when they were obviously talking about issues surrounding worshiping "false gods.

  could it be that the greek word porneiahas been misinterpreted here and actually refers to religious fornication in the same sense as found at rev:14,8 17:2,4 18:3 and 19:2, where the great harlot commits fornication?

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  Deuteronomy 32:7-9 Who is the Most High?

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  please excuse me if you've discussed this topic before, but as a "newbie" i haven't found anything on it as yet.. 7 remember the days of old, consider the years back from generation to generation; ask your father and he can tell you; your old men and they can say it to you.

  8 when the most high gave the nations an iheritance, when he parted the sons of adam fron one another, he proceeded to fix the boundary of the peoples with regard for the sons of israel.

  9 for jehovah's share is his people; jacob is the allotment that he inherits.

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  Matt 5:17-20. What does it mean to be called least in the kingdom?

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  hi folks,.

  as this seems to be the only place to get my questions answered, (and i've got lots of them) i thought i'd give this one a try.. when speaking about the commandments at matthew 5:17-20 jesus said any who break one of the least of these and teaches others to that effect would be called least in the kingdom of the heavens.

  does it mean there is still hope for such ones, as being considered least would suggest to me that you would still be remembered.. also, at 1 corinthinas 6:9 where the apostle paul says fornicators and adulterers, (those who break the commandments) will not inherit the kingdom is he taking a harder line than jesus and in effect contradicting him?.

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  Are the Creative days 7000 years long?

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  where does the idea that the creative days of the genesis account were 7,000 years long come from?.

  genesis doesn't suggest that they were specific time periods, but shows that one "day" extended into others.

  i feel that the clue is in the words; "and there was an evening and there was a morning, a first day.

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