awwww, I want to know the rest of the story!!!!!!!!!!!
Wonder if they would even do a JC on you since you've been out for so long...
Posts by cognac
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62Official visit from two local elders one fine Sunday morning
by SnakesInTheTower inwell, it finally happened.
a week ago sunday my fiancee and i were sitting in the living room drinking coffee and watching the morning talking heads when we heard the crunch of tires on the gravel in the driveaway, about 10:30 or so.
we looked at each other with that "are you expecting anyone?
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cognac
thnks!
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cognac
Did he ever state his exact reasons why?
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Interesting how Christ had to come back to approve an organization
by cognac inso the borg states... cause it was the "pagan" churches who actually approved what books went into the bible hundreds of years after jesus died... jesus could have made the bible last to our day and have the books approved through peasants or "those few people who had the truth up til russell".... but instead jesus chose the "apostate churches" to do this?
does the borg ever address this?.
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cognac
We read that “near the close of the 1st cent., Clement bishop of Rome was acquainted with Paul’s letter to the church at Corinth. After him, the letters of both Ignatius bishop of Antioch and Polycarp bishop of Smyrna attest the dissemination of the Pauline letters by the second decade of the 2nd century.”
Thanks for posting that Satanus. I read the part of the encyclopedia and at 90ce they were putting together the Pauline letters. When they did this, they were missing 3 of Pauls's letters and didn't have the rest of the new testament Books.
It also states that in encyclopedia a few pages after there quote that Eusebius who was born in the year 265 did an investigation and at that time the books that belonged in the Canon were still being disputed... It also stated that it was the Churches who decided what books would and would not be a part of the bible...
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Interesting how Christ had to come back to approve an organization
by cognac inso the borg states... cause it was the "pagan" churches who actually approved what books went into the bible hundreds of years after jesus died... jesus could have made the bible last to our day and have the books approved through peasants or "those few people who had the truth up til russell".... but instead jesus chose the "apostate churches" to do this?
does the borg ever address this?.
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cognac
So the BORG states... Cause it was the "pagan" churches who actually approved what books went into the bible hundreds of years after Jesus died... Jesus could have made the bible last to our day and have the books approved through peasants or "those few people who had the truth up til Russell"...
But instead Jesus chose the "apostate churches" to do this? Does the BORG ever address this?
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How do you explain...
by AwSnap in1 samuel 19:9?
i thought god didn't commit evil...and this also appears to be predestination, no?
that was the new world translation.. the new international bible says:.
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cognac
If you read the chapters before, Saul rejected God so that was why God rejected him in the special priviledge of neing King. 1 Sam. 15:23
However, even though he did that, he repented before God. 1 Sam. 15:25
Even though God was upset with Saul, he offered a way for him to have peace if Saul now followed what God told him to do. 1 Sam. 16:16
Saul followed this counsel. 1 Sam. 16:17
Since Saul followed what God had told him to do, he now was refreshed and at peace. God's anger had departed from him. 1 Sam 16:23
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How do you explain...
by AwSnap in1 samuel 19:9?
i thought god didn't commit evil...and this also appears to be predestination, no?
that was the new world translation.. the new international bible says:.
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cognac
Aguest - do you think it was a lying pen as Jeremiah stated or do you think spirit could ALSO be defined as anger in some instances? Thus, our perception of what happened altered a bit due to different understandings of the word "spirit"?
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How do you explain...
by AwSnap in1 samuel 19:9?
i thought god didn't commit evil...and this also appears to be predestination, no?
that was the new world translation.. the new international bible says:.
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cognac
This is the kjv bible states that scripture:
And the evilspirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat 6 in his house with his javelin in his hand: and Davidplayed 18 with [his] hand.
Spirit can also be defined as this: (Hebrew word for spirit in this instance being "ruwach"
air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Seems to me that God was just angry at Saul because of his attitide. Notice the beginning of the next verse that states Saul's attitude:
And Saulsought 17 to smite 53 David
And even further then that, didn't God protect David and Saul after this event occured?
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wife took it pretty well i guess...it's over...
by oompa ini guess it only took three years, but they were hell in so many ways for both of us...she was not happy and lived in denial as much as possible...i was not happy and lived in a bottle as much as possible and glad that is over for me....but it was one of the saddest things i have ever experienced in my life....as was the visit to my parents before i told her....but yes...she said she kind of expected it...was thinking something was going to happen soon as she noticed i had more and more trouble saying i love you back to her when she said it on the phone at the end of goodbyes...and when i was leaving the house...i had noticed it for over a year and it was killing me..... i told her how sorry i was for changing so much again....and that she still walks on water...and is a great person and so pretty....and that she will be ok because she was happy single before me for many years and had all she needs for that again...her closeness to jehovah and her freinds in the congregation...she is very close to both and will be ok i hope...it was very surreal....very calm...very sad.
my bitterness and disdain for wt rules came through when talking to my parents and i was very open about how i feel as to their upcoming shunning of me, and how it feels to my son since he was just 17....and how the fear of losing them had kept me trying in my marriage for the past few years...dad was firm in his position of future action....mom said they will still always love me...and will still talk to me until i get dfd.....oh how this hurts.....dad said there is a name for people who only live for themselves and deny god but could not think of what it was....i told him i was not living just for myself...that i am a good person and there are values from him and the bible i hope i always have....i cry so hard as i type this and tell you just so you can know how painful this is....i told him i so loved the rule of treating others how you want to be treated and have always done that...even allowing myself to be wronged on so many occasions to keep peace....... he said that was a good rule....i agreed and said it was a big one too....and that while i could do it...treat him the way i would like to be treated...he would not be able to!.......left as i became emotional...big hug from mom, but i just barely put an arm on dad............oompa.
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cognac
I'm so sorry Oompa...
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How do you know the Bible is from God?
by cognac ini really want to believe it, but, sometimes it is very difficult to figure out how it can be from god.
i mean, in the old testament, he seems horrible in some instances.
the adam and eve thing doesn't make to much sense to me.
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cognac
That would be great AMoment!!! Thank-you!