maninthemiddle
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Truth Be Told Documentary
by poeticmommy ini have heard so many good things about this film and i am really hoping to see it myself!
it will be playing soon near me, in grand rapids, michigan.
if anyone else is interested in attending the link is below!
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My experience
by ZuluTime injust wanted to introduce myself.
i've made a few comments here and there on the lovely jwn i started to wake up to ttatt this year.
basically, i'm a born in jw and was baptized at 16. lived a double life until i wa 25 and beat myself up about it constantly.
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maninthemiddle
Welcome, sounds like you have good parents.
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From the recent video, what is the Tuxedo site used for?
by maninthemiddle ini have never heard of it before this video..
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maninthemiddle
I have never heard of it before this video.
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Surprised the Jephthah account was not rewritten
by maninthemiddle inthey had a chance to rewrite the bible and they leave the word "burnt offering" in there..
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maninthemiddle
Midrash says otherwise.
Other biblical commentators5 disagree. Though Jephthah was one of the Israelite judges, he was chosen for the position because of his bravery and might, not because of his Torah scholarship—indeed, he was woefully ignorant.6 And though he was not bound whatsoever by the vow he made—as it clearly transgressed the rules of the Torah—he ignorantly went ahead and offered his daughter as a sacrifice.
Had he only consulted with Phinehas , the learned high priest of the time, he would have been informed of his error. But that didn’t happen. Jephthah was too arrogant to travel to Phinehas to receive guidance: “I am the general of the Israelite forces, and I should go to him?!” And Phinehas was too proud to unilaterally go to Jephthah to advise him: “He needs me; why should I make the trip?”
The hubris demonstrated by these two leaders cost an innocent girl her life. According to the Midrash 7 both were punished. Phinehas lost the divine spirit that had hitherto rested upon him. Jephthah became ill, and he lost many of his limbs. Because his limbs were buried in many locations, the Bible says that Jephthah was “buried in the cities of Gilead.”8
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Surprised the Jephthah account was not rewritten
by maninthemiddle inthey had a chance to rewrite the bible and they leave the word "burnt offering" in there..
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maninthemiddle
Fulltime: I'm not saying that, simply suprised that they didn't choose to concidering the index to the book puts their spin on it.
11 Judge Jephthah expelled, later made
leader(1-11)
Jephthah reasonswithAmmon (12-28)
Jephthah’s vowand his daughter(29-40)
Daughter’s life of singleness (38-4 -
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39 years down the road (pictures)
by JeffT inoctober 6, 1974, outside the kingdom hall in pullman, wa.
good grief, we look like children.
friday afternoon on our way to celebrate on whidbey island.
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From Prison to Prosperity - new JW.org video
by cedars inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofo9xmhis5c.
let no one say witnesses don't catch people at their most vulnerable, or use love bombing.. .
cedars.
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maninthemiddle
I wouldn't call this Prosperity gospel, at least it's not what many televangislst preach. in typical Wt speak properity here is not a refernce to Money.
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Why no children allowed at the annual meeting?
by not bitter ini've never even heard of this annual meeting or whatever its called.
is it a new thing?
sure it wasn't around in my day.. my elderly parents must have gone to it yesterday.
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maninthemiddle
the no kids was for places that were over/near capacity.
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Surprised the Jephthah account was not rewritten
by maninthemiddle inthey had a chance to rewrite the bible and they leave the word "burnt offering" in there..
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maninthemiddle
They had a chance to rewrite the bible and they leave the word "burnt offering" in there.
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New Bible and Governing Body Term?
by nolongerconfused inhas anyone had a chance to see if the gb has replaced or inserted the term "governing body" to any of the new translation verses?
how about matthew 24:45?.
thanks..
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maninthemiddle
I have to disagree, in the usage of the WT, elder, is an Ecclesiastical term, not a bibilcal term.
I seee your point, strictly speaking the two terms could be interchangeable, (if you skip the history of presbyter) in the org structure they are not.