Posts by LeeT

the new testament specialist daniel wallace notes that although there are about 300,000 individual variations of the text of the new testament, this number is very misleading.

most of the differences are completely inconsequential--spelling errors, inverted phrases and the like.

a side by side comparison between the two main text families (the majority text and the modern critical text) shows agreement a full 98% of the time.[18].

LeeT

The scribblings ascribed to Paul may have been passed down faithfully pretty much intact, but nobody thinks Paul wrote most of them.
http://coolingtwilight.com/pauline-authorship-survey-chart/

I've only seen the first 3 so far but fascinating.
http://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-145#sessions

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How Many JWs actually Watch JW.TV?

by Oubliette in

i'm curious.

what do you know from your own experience and talking to other active jws?

i know from my own informal, non-scientific survey that most jws do not watch jw.tv.

LeeT

Google Trends JW.org vs JW.tv

TV barely causes a ripple.

Same story with Alexa ratings

Alexa JW.org

Alexa JW.tv

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sugar water will show blue light over the sun.. salt water will show red light over the sun.. our body components, salt sugar water.. blue blood vein and red blood... definition of our body in his form.. this is the evidence, of our god..

LeeT

So, whilst the initial post is a little off the wall, the documentary "Particle Fever" appears to track the progress of the first few years work at CERN's LHC. I've not seen it yet but it could well be interesting. Just because the messenger is a crank, don't shoot down the message. As for proving the existence of God, I'm skeptical to say the least, though no doubt insights are gained into the the fundamental rules of the universe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj51q9wf9xc

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So I clicked on the Mormon come-on advertisement to "Come chat about Jesus Christ"

by oppostate in

so i clicked on the mormon come-on advertisement on the top, the right side and the bottom of the jwd page that invited me to "come chat about jesus christ".. i started a chat with brook and taiza and asked them why the subtitle of the book of mormon changed from "another gospel of jesus christ" to "another testament of jesus christ".. brooke told me it hadn't so i googled it and told them there's plenty of websites that refer to it that way and i had a very old copy with that subtitle on it.. so taiza says it's probably a copy by some break off group and not from them.. i told her the inside said from the "lds".

so they left the chat.. so i figured maybe there's a technical glitch and i shouldn't assume they just dropped me.. so i log on again and give my last name instead of my first name this time.. and hellen and catherine log into the channel.. i ask them again about the title change and they drop off the chat.. so i figured twice is very unlikely that they had a glitch, and i'm pretty sure they dropped me because they didn't like my question.. one more time, i'll give them one more try.. so i log on again, with my middle name this time.. brooke and jayne log on.. i type that i'd been chatting previously with brooke.. she types back that she's a different brooke.. so jayne starts asking if i read the book of mormon.. i say yes and i have a question about it.. so i ask my question about the "another gospel" to 'another testament" change.. she says that she does not recall ever hearing about that and what do i like about the book of mormon.. i then ask her about the "gospel" paul wrote about in corinthians.. she says it's the same as in the book of mormon.. i ask back that if the gospel is the "same" why call it another???

and i quote her galatians 1:8.. she says that it does not apply to the book of mormon since it is not different from the bible so therefore, it is not another good news.. but that is the subtitle of the book isn't it.. so she sends me a link to a two minute video by the lds telling of the finding of the tablets and the transcription from reformed egyptian to english by joseph smith.. i started questioning whether reformed egyptian was a real language.

LeeT

What a novel service that chat line is. I just went over there to send brownie points for Elder Bexler with whom I had a pleasant chat today. Elder B and I just spoke about family and religious backgrounds, how he was finding our territory, his work schedule, and future plans etc. We didn't stray onto a discussion of ids beliefs at all. I know they're cranks but I wouldn't have offered him any argument he hadn't heard before so I didn't see any point in spoiling his day.

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Today's text--Jehovah, the 'Impartial' God

by sd-7 in

"jehovah your god...treats none with partiality."--deut.

10:17.. "impartiality is one of jehovah's endearing qualities.

" <--yes, between that and his tendency towards genocidal warfare, i don't know what makes me love him more.

LeeT

Ahem...let me tweak that a bit.......

"Not existing is one of Jehovah's endearing qualities."

"Not existing is one of Jehovah's enduring qualities."