Band, I'm so sorry. Pain by itself is tremendously debilitating. I don't pray but my thoughts and positive energy are with you. Please keep us informed as how things are going!
Cadellin
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Horrid Time for Me
by Band on the Run inmy pain has been in remission.
i have a morphine pump.
pain broke through toward the end of the medication.
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2012 July Kingdom Ministry!
by Atlantis in.
2012 july kingdom ministry*click the link below and when the next page appears scroll down and click the link in the long blue box that says: (click here to start download from sendspace).
ignore all the other buttons and symbols.
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Bethel - the house of the canaanite god El
by mP inhow ironic, that in hebrew the word for god is actually the name of a canaanite god el.
ive recently been facinated by the etymology of word, particularly those in the bible.
anyone can change the meanings or definition of words like we have witnessed with the generation, but the word itself cannot be changed.
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Cadellin
El was the chief god of the Canaanite pantheon; YHWH emerges as a son/challenger in Hebrew mythology of the Late Bronze Age so, yes, originally they were separate gods entirely. Remnants of these roles can still be identified in certain parts of the OT, and I should be able to point you to a few verses but I don't have a Bible with me at the moment.
Much of the storm god imagery used of El was gradually subsumed into the image of YHWH as Israelite monoltry progressed until finally the two entities were absorbed into YHWH alone, around the time of the monarchy (though I may be off on the timing there). Richard Friedman in The Hidden Book in the Bible aptly demonstrates the two separate lines of OT narration, complete with parallel creation, flood and Abrahamic stories, one of which used the name of YHWH ("J") and one that used simply El or Adonai ("P"). In the "P" version, YHWH does not emerge as a fully-recognized entity until his name is revealed to Moses at the occasion of the burning bush and only then and thereafter is it uttered by Biblical characters.
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Ephraim Stern in the previous edition. Now Abba Hillel Silver - July 2012 Awake!
by AnnOMaly inp.24.. prophecy 3: "from the going forth of the word to restore and to rebuild jerusalem until messiah the leader, there will be seven weeks, also sixty-two weeks.
"-daniel 9:25.. fulfillment: the period of time specified in daniel's prophecy amounts to 69 units of 7 years each, or 483 years.
the rebuilding of jerusalem began in 455 b.c.e.
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Cadellin
Well anyway, thanks, AnnOMaly for posting that--very interesting. Looks like the boys in Brooklyn are still up to their old unethical tricks when it comes to using sources.
A bigger problem, IMHO, is how they arrive at the year 29 CE for the arrival of Christ. It requires quite a bit of chronological tapdancing in order to rationalize an earlier date for Artaxerxes' reign and to make everything else seem to work. The Daniel book has a few pages on the WT's unique brand of Persian chronology; even when I was active and studying it in the bookstudy, I thought it sounded a stretch!
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Ephraim Stern in the previous edition. Now Abba Hillel Silver - July 2012 Awake!
by AnnOMaly inp.24.. prophecy 3: "from the going forth of the word to restore and to rebuild jerusalem until messiah the leader, there will be seven weeks, also sixty-two weeks.
"-daniel 9:25.. fulfillment: the period of time specified in daniel's prophecy amounts to 69 units of 7 years each, or 483 years.
the rebuilding of jerusalem began in 455 b.c.e.
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Ephraim Stern in the previous edition. Now Abba Hillel Silver - July 2012 Awake!
by AnnOMaly inp.24.. prophecy 3: "from the going forth of the word to restore and to rebuild jerusalem until messiah the leader, there will be seven weeks, also sixty-two weeks.
"-daniel 9:25.. fulfillment: the period of time specified in daniel's prophecy amounts to 69 units of 7 years each, or 483 years.
the rebuilding of jerusalem began in 455 b.c.e.
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Cadellin
Geez--I thought I was using Firefox!!
Okay, so where's my previous post??? AAGH. And it was a good one too!
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'Dinah Gets Into Trouble' - Does Story 20 Mean Rape = Fornication?
by sd-7 ini was listening, albeit unwittingly, to a 'my book of bible stories' tape and this statement caught me by surprise.
it's found in story 20:.
"one day when dinah came to visit, shechem took dinah and forced her to lie down with him.
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The EGIBI Family Records WIPESOUT Watchtower 607 B.C.E. Date for GOOD!
by TheSnarkyApologist inthis is information gained from carl olof jonsson's book entitled "the gentile times reconsidered".
it's an extremely valuable piece of proof that utterly demolishes the watchtower claim of "extra kings" and "extra time" being inserted into the discussion!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53_076v7a5s.
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Cadellin
AnnoMaly, you are the best! Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to post these links. Can't wait to go through them!
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Tiktaalik - A Brief Introduction
by cofty inas a young pioneer i always relished opportunities to demonstrate my ignorance of evolution.
my usual mantra was that all fossils were fully formed fish or amphibians or reptiles or mammals with nothing in-between.
even back in the 80s this was factually incorrect, but following a discovery by neil shubin and his team in 2004 the matter has been put beyond reasonable doubt.. one of the biggest gulfs that life has had to cross was the transition from sea to dry land.. fish have conical shaped heads, reptiles have flat heads.
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Cadellin
I read Your Inner Fish as well, and thought it was brilliant. Tiktaalik is indeed an amazing example of not just transitional features but a transitional species. The bone-grinding, teeth-gritting perseverence shown by this team of scientists is unbelievable, but what a reward for all their hard work. One of the best evidences of the validity of evolution is its use in making predictions; these scientists didn't just start digging randomly--as they most surely would have if evolution was a matter of "mere chance," but based on their knowledge of paleoclimatology, ancient geology and the other fossil findings, they knew exactly where a species as Tiktaalik should most likely be found.
Creationists deplore evolution as being founded on "chance," and yet this implies randomness. There is nothing random about how and where such a creature as Tiktaalik shows up, nor about the science involved in calculating its timing and location, based on the larger evolutionary landscape. Chance indeed!
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The EGIBI Family Records WIPESOUT Watchtower 607 B.C.E. Date for GOOD!
by TheSnarkyApologist inthis is information gained from carl olof jonsson's book entitled "the gentile times reconsidered".
it's an extremely valuable piece of proof that utterly demolishes the watchtower claim of "extra kings" and "extra time" being inserted into the discussion!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53_076v7a5s.
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Cadellin
I wasn't able to access your video, but yes, Egibi does pretty much put the last nail in the 607 coffin. I would love to get an English translation of the Egibi letters and scholarly analysis--I can't find anything out there that's not in Dutch or German (or something I can't read). Any suggestions?