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According to fundi Christians, where did people go when they died pre-ransom?
by sabastious in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
before jesus offered the ransom, where did people go when they died?.

-sab.
Advocatus Diaboli

Dan,
Respectfully, that's the strange tactic that biblical inerrantists have to use to make the Bible make sense or appear less "mytho-poetic" than it does, namely, adding to scripture to even out the rough edges. Like assuming that all the animals in the ark went into deep hibernation for the year long voyage! Ha!
N.T. Wright wrote about this somewhere: that fundamentalists and inerrantists don't want the Bible we have, they want some other Bible with all sorts of additions and qualifications to make it say something that it was never intended to say.
But, believe as thou will. :)
A.D.
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According to fundi Christians, where did people go when they died pre-ransom?
by sabastious in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
before jesus offered the ransom, where did people go when they died?.

-sab.
Advocatus Diaboli

JeffT,
Are you saying that faithful people of the OT knew Jesus -- or the Messiah -- was going to die in the future? Nowhere is this even hinted at in the OT. And the matter is not even touched upon in the NT!
Also: Jesus own disciples didn't "have faith he was going to die" when he was alive. Kind of odd, yes?
A.D.
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According to fundi Christians, where did people go when they died pre-ransom?
by sabastious in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
before jesus offered the ransom, where did people go when they died?.

-sab.
Advocatus Diaboli

As to the original question: there are a lot of different types of "fundamentalist" Christians -- now a vague term that usually means "inerrantist" -- with various views on this matter.
A.D.
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According to fundi Christians, where did people go when they died pre-ransom?
by sabastious in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
before jesus offered the ransom, where did people go when they died?.

-sab.
Advocatus Diaboli

How did Peter, James and John know they were Moses and Elijah? What, did they have name tags on or something? I mean, if you saw someone magically appear in 18th century garb would you think, "Well, that obviously is Alexander Hamiltion"?
But if you were the writer of Mark and wanted to make a point about Jesus, then this makes sense, doesn't it?
A.D.
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can i use a quote from shepherd the flock of god legally in a letter to my inlaws ?
by looloo in
1. jw
2. friends
Advocatus Diaboli

This entire matter of copyright is really getting blown way out of proportion. Of course you can quote it in a personal letter. Be daring! To think the society would sue you for doing so is truly laughable!
The Society has much, much more pressing things to do, legal and otherwise, than to go after some poor fellow who quotes from their secret manual in a letter to family. Reality check!
A.D.
Addendum: I mean, unless you started distributing copies by the truckload. Really now.
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Circuit assembly symposium outline part 3
by billyboy in
1. watchtower
2. bible
apologies for any formatting / paragraph errors.. part 1 http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/200657/1/symposium-outline-for-circuit-assembly-part-1.

part 2 http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/200863/1/symposium-outline-from-curcuit-assembly-part-2.

the traveling merchants (19 min.
Advocatus Diaboli

If the JW's took their views of Big Business to their logical conclusion no witness would be allowed to work or do business with a corporation, period. Based on the reasoning of this symposium outline, it would be no different than working for a political party, running for public office or working for a church. I mean, why would you want to have ANYTHING to do with part of Satan's "axis of evil"? And yet, there are some JW's who are in top management in corporate America. Not many, mind you.
And don't hold your breath to wait for the WT to encourage their members to boycott companies that pay foreigners a pittance to make that nice new silk suit Brother So-and-so is wearing. Or the diamond ring Sister Elder's Wife has. Consumers -- including JW's -- have as much to do with sweatshop wages as "greedy companies."
Also: not to state the obvious, but the WT sure does paint with a broad brush, doesn't it?
A.D.