Jesus would not have said "Jehovah", because that mis-translation originated many centuries later. A Spanish monk mixed up consonants for the divine name (written form) with vowels for the Hebrew word "Adonai" (Lord, the spoken replacement word), thus producing the hybrid "Jehovah".
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Did Jesus ever use the name Jehovah?
by biometrics inwhile growing up as a jw this was a question i often wondered about: did jesus ever call his heavenly father by the name jehovah?
and if he did, why wasn't it recorded.. i know there's plenty of references such as john 17:6, 26 where it says "i have made your name manifest to the men ...".
however is there anywhere in the bible where jesus used the actual word jehovah?.
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GLTirebiter
You got it, Syl!
The pattern is most of a large circle, with a smaller circle attached to it. You can imagine a second small circle under the table where you can't see it. Put it together, and you have one of the best-known logos in the entertainment business.
M-I-C ----K-E-Y...
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I'm not saying yet, so as not to influence anybody else's opinion. I'm curious if others see the same thing there that I do, or if it's just my over-active imagination. I'll check in tomorrow night, and will explain then.
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Forget the brick company--look at the pattern on the rug in the video. Does anybody else see what I saw? It looks to me like the animators used a well-known, well-defended trademark (the table hides part of it, but there's enough showing to be recognized as that famous logo).
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Any reaction from active JW's about the Sparlock training video?
by UnConfused inare jw's all abuzz about the "blessing" the gb has given them in the form of this new training video?.
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Anybody who would be stumbled by the Sparlock video is spiritually weak anyway, if not an outright apostate. If releasing the video gets those bad associations to leave, they served the faithful and discreet slave's purposes. Was that the plan all along?
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Believers, your understanding on how old is the earth.
by jam inlets forget about the creations of man, animals and.
light and darkness.
focus on the period when the earth.
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I believe this rock called "Earth" is around 4-5 billion years old. Also that the universe it is part of was concentrated in one point about 15 billion years ago, at the origin of space time predicted by Aleksandr Friedmann and Georges Lemaître as a consequence of theory of general relativity--an event called the "Big Bang"*.
"This is the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation to which I have ever listened." --Einstein (referring to Lemaître's talk in January 1933)
It's easy to agree with that--unlesss you practice scriptural literalism (denying scripture writers would use figurative language to illustrate concepts beyond human experience of that time), or the philosophy of materialism (denying existence of anything besides space time, matter and energy). The first is religious and the second non-religious, but both are fundamentalism: refusal to consider anything beyond their respective orthodoxies.
* Ironically, "Big Bang" originally was a derogatory term coined by adherents to "steady-state" theories of the universe. When the cosmic background radiation predicted by the Big Bang model was observed by Bell Labs, materialists proposed a cyclic model of eternally repeating Big Bangs ending in Big Crunches preceding the next Big Bang, ad infinitum. This theory, in turn, fell out of favor after 1998 when UC Berkeley determined that cosmic expansion is accelerating, rather than slowing as the cyclic theory predicts. -
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AJWRB---What Have They Done???
by minimus ini still never really understood what these phantoms ever did.
i've read many praiseworthy comments lauding the site or people behind it.
but in reality, what major good have they done to change jehovah's witnesses' views on blood?.
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Minimums - What Has He Done?
Played the Devil's Advocate, even if accidentally. Thank you, red dot, for starting this discussion.
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Deep breath, and...
by AGuest injumping [back] in... for a sec.... greetings to you all, the household of god, israel... those who go with... and all others here!
the greatest of love and peace to you all!.
i'm just sticking my head in to say (because several have asked and it's not fair of me to make them have to answer for me, so):.
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Welcome back, Shelby! Take a deep breath, count to ten, and smile at the nay-sayers. Glad to hear you're doing well!
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The significance of Sparlock
by botchtowersociety inthe watchtower has depicted sparlock as a commercial plastic toy to be thrown into the garbage with impunity.. i submit to you all that he is something far greater.
sparlock represents all the hopes and dreams of jw children everywhere.
he is the magic of childhood.
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Botch, you nailed it! The video is all about doing what makes Jahthe GB happy. Good children must not act like children.
Did you notice this? It wasn't about good and bad. It wasn't about what makes mommy and daddy happy--they don't matter--only obeying the Watchtower is important!
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I am so proud of how we've handled Sparlock!
by NewChapter ini know, another sparlock thread.
but i just have to express this!
i am so proud of what we have done with sparlock.. youtube is being flooded with videos.
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LOL with Billy the Ex
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
So if Jah hates magic, no wonder he doesn't want Caleb applying to MIT!