Really interesting historical context peacefulpete thank you.
Posts by cofty
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203My Explanation of Why They Got it Wrong About Blood Using Only the NWT
by cofty in10 " any israelite or any alien living among them who eats any bloodi will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.
12 therefore i say to the israelites, "none of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.
15 'anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean.
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My Explanation of Why They Got it Wrong About Blood Using Only the NWT
by cofty in10 " any israelite or any alien living among them who eats any bloodi will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.
12 therefore i say to the israelites, "none of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.
15 'anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean.
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cofty
Eating an unbled animal found 'already dead' was entirely LEGAL under the Law given through Moses.
Despite thousands of words you have singularly failed to gainsay this simple fact.
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My Explanation of Why They Got it Wrong About Blood Using Only the NWT
by cofty in10 " any israelite or any alien living among them who eats any bloodi will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.
12 therefore i say to the israelites, "none of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.
15 'anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean.
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cofty
not up to an individual’s conscience to accept a bt
And the children keep on being sacrificed on the altar of blind obedience to the ignorant told men in NY who can't defend their edicts any more clearly than you can.
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My Explanation of Why They Got it Wrong About Blood Using Only the NWT
by cofty in10 " any israelite or any alien living among them who eats any bloodi will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.
12 therefore i say to the israelites, "none of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.
15 'anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean.
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cofty
the Mosaic law also forbade the Israelites from going around eating and selling dead animals to fellow Jews.
The bible clearly states otherwise as you well know.
The law against eating an animal found already dead ONLY applied to priests. Therefore non-priestly Jews had no such law as Lev 17 states.
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Did the ransom sacrifice even work?
by Sharpie inshower thought entered my mind the other day... jesus christ.
as per doctrine.
is still alive in heaven right now correct?
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cofty
Sea Breeze - nephesh ion Gen 35 refers simply to life. It is idiom for 'Rachel was dying'. There is absolutely no concept of a soul in terms of a conscious part of the person that survived death prior to the Babylonian exile. In the OT the soul IS the living person.
This is beyond dispute as I'm sure you know well.
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Did the ransom sacrifice even work?
by Sharpie inshower thought entered my mind the other day... jesus christ.
as per doctrine.
is still alive in heaven right now correct?
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cofty
If humans are spirit, soul, and body (something completely unknown to Israel) how can you reconcile that with the fact that we evolved from non-human ancestors?
Or do all living things have this tripartite existence?
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My Explanation of Why They Got it Wrong About Blood Using Only the NWT
by cofty in10 " any israelite or any alien living among them who eats any bloodi will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.
12 therefore i say to the israelites, "none of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.
15 'anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean.
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cofty
That's the most muddle-headed illogical word-salad I have attempted to read in a long time.
And yet the Watchtower demands the death of children based on this sort of obfuscation.
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Sunday January 15 is my 76th birthday. I answer some of your questions.
by Terry inhappy birthday 2 me!!.
sunday is my 76th birthday and i know that you want to know how it "feels" to have outlived my usefulness, to have lost my natural beauty (being reduced to wrinkles and flab), and constantly walking into a room not knowing why i'm there.
you also are curious as to how i can continue to find a reason to live since none of my kids think my opinions have any possible value, most of my facebooks friends i wouldn't recognize if i tripped over them on my way into starbucks, and my monthly expenditure on bird treats exceeds u.s. spending on the military.
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cofty
Happy birthday Terry
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My Explanation of Why They Got it Wrong About Blood Using Only the NWT
by cofty in10 " any israelite or any alien living among them who eats any bloodi will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.
12 therefore i say to the israelites, "none of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.
15 'anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean.
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cofty
You conclude that permission is implied to go around eating dead unbled animals.
It is not implied - it is explicitly stated.
We don’t see that practiced by the Israelites in the Bible.
We absolutely do. Why else would Ezekiel the priest state that - unlike other Israelites - he hasn't eaten animals found already dead?
Also, there is no Bible evidence ( except for your assumption ) that whole blood inside or outside a living organism is not viewed as sacred to God.
No assumptions necessary. I laid out the evidence in the OP. You can keep obfuscating but you can't deal with the data can you?
Or that Christians have permission from God with impunity to consume the blood of another living organism just because the host is alive.
I never said that.
You have adopted exactly the same technique that the writer of the Watchtower use when dealing with awkward questions. They write lots and lots of words, none of which directly address the actual point.
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My Explanation of Why They Got it Wrong About Blood Using Only the NWT
by cofty in10 " any israelite or any alien living among them who eats any bloodi will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.
12 therefore i say to the israelites, "none of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.
15 'anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean.
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cofty
However, “keep”ing with how Jews abstained from blood in the past and the noachide, there is no scriptural basis in not abstaining from blood in new ways of consuming blood.
Jews did NOT abstain from eating the blood of an animal found already dead. They had permission to go ahead and eat with impunity. They could sell the unbled animal to gentiles - so much for 'Noachide' law!
Despite this incontrovertible fact the Watchtower leadership continue to demand the sacrificial death of JW children.