(it is generally held Moses was seeing not a “fire” at the burning bush but the Shekinah)
Interesting. And we can thought the bush being the tree of life.
Very good thread!
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The Jewish perspective of the OT according to poster David_Jay
by deegee ini note your comments in the following threads regarding the jewish perspective on certain old testament (ot) events:.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5700922233585664/when-you-stop-think-about-why-would-gods-chosen-people-old-testament-need-army?page=1&size=10 ,.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6065451475927040/why-didnt-god-also-reveal-himself-canaanites-just-he-did-moses-burning-bush.
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The Jewish perspective of the OT according to poster David_Jay
by deegee ini note your comments in the following threads regarding the jewish perspective on certain old testament (ot) events:.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5700922233585664/when-you-stop-think-about-why-would-gods-chosen-people-old-testament-need-army?page=1&size=10 ,.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6065451475927040/why-didnt-god-also-reveal-himself-canaanites-just-he-did-moses-burning-bush.
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John_Mann
People cannot accept that Judaism and Catholicism did not came from books.
It's much more convenient to beat the Sola Scriptura strawman.
What attracts me in Judaism is not the concepts of God in it but the concepts of soul. Judaism went far more deep than Catholicism in concepts of soul. Only in Aquinas the subject was expanded.
What you think about the role of Ezra in the making of the OT while in Babylon?
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What is the purpose of life?
by slimboyfat inwhile reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.
because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".
i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.
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Não When I was a little boy (maybe 5 years old) I was learning how to count from zero to ten and I was having a hard time to count straight. I knew the name of the numbers but my problem was to figure out the right sequence.
Then I asked a little help to my father and he counted in a slowly way to show me how to do it. In a while I figured it out and then I asked to him until what number he could count. He calmly said he could count to infinity. And I was in awe!
I was not in awe about learning what infinity is. In fact I could not remember how I understood the concept of infinity. I don't even remember if I had to learn it at all! This is my oldest memory about infinity and I already knew it. I couldn't count to ten but I already understood the concept of infinity.
And my concept of infinity never needed to be improved. Of course I learned about mathematical applications to it but the concept itself is still the same in my mind just it was when I was a little boy.
In a biological sense I can trace the evolution of my eyes and knees to a long chain of animals. We know almost anything about our animal bodies and we can trace it down to other animals.
But how and where came from this property to know about infinity?
No other animal can do such thing.
And if we search how we learned it we only find that it simply appeared in our minds.
And this is not some trivial knowledge like swimming to the surface or hold the breath under water.
This is one of the most complex and sophisticated concepts of the human mind.
And it's not the only exotic property in our minds.
What about justice? Liberty? Artistic beauty? The awareness of our deaths? The search for meaning? Introspection? Imagination? Intricated concepts of past and future?
To what animals can we trace such things?
Until now we can't even trace these properties to our neurons! No scanner can say if I'm thinking about infinity or the meaning of life.
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A stunning piece of LOGIC from the Apostle Paul
by nicolaou in1st corinthians 15 12-17. but if it is preached that christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even christ has been raised.
and if christ has not been raised, your faith is futile... .
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In nihilistic view life is absurd and hopeless.
In Christian view the Christ's Resurrection is indeed an All-in bet.
Ultimately we face this dichotomy: Nihilism or Christianity. There's no between.
If you embrace Nihilism you are embracing a hopeless absurd. So it's very strange to use absurdity as a derogatory term to Christianity.
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Spanish Forum is being shut down
by ILoveTTATT2 inapparently the spanish forum, extj.com, is being shut down coming december.it's pretty sad.
there is still so much work to do to help people in latin america and spain come out of this cult!.
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John_Mann
What are the excuses of a sincere doubtful JW to not discover anything about the JW. org?
I really doubt that much more effort of Internet exposition need to be made.
I think the people inside the Watchtower now is made by more than 90 percent of people who WANTS to be a JW. True believers who knows the TTATT.
I left in 2006 and one thing that shocked me at the time was to discover people who had read the CoC and decided to remain a JW. I think this is already the main reality among them.
This new generation was born connected in the Internet and they know about the TTATT. Maybe some of them are just waiting to be financially independent to get out.
In the end it's not about facts and truth. It's about individual choice and some will always chose odd things.
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Technological singularity
by Brokeback Watchtower inhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/technological_singularity.
the singularity" redirects here.
for other uses, see singularity (disambiguation).the technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity)[1][2] is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.
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John_Mann
This getting near and near to be a cult.
The Singularity is near... soon... always 30 years ahead...
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John_Mann
Oompa was a terrible loss.
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How to Irritate JWs: The Catholic Way
by Hernandez inwhat's the greatest advantage in becoming a roman catholic after leaving the jehovah's witnesses some 17 years ago?
why, it's the way it totally irritates people and really pushes their buttons...that is, if you are one of the unfortunate jehovah's witnesses who happens across my door during field service.
i have developed several techniques to make it very frustrating to the unwary witness who hopes to make headway at my house.
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John_Mann
Yes I am.
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How to Irritate JWs: The Catholic Way
by Hernandez inwhat's the greatest advantage in becoming a roman catholic after leaving the jehovah's witnesses some 17 years ago?
why, it's the way it totally irritates people and really pushes their buttons...that is, if you are one of the unfortunate jehovah's witnesses who happens across my door during field service.
i have developed several techniques to make it very frustrating to the unwary witness who hopes to make headway at my house.
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John_Mann
Anyway it's not wise to use Catholicism for humor.
Bad taste humor.
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How to Irritate JWs: The Catholic Way
by Hernandez inwhat's the greatest advantage in becoming a roman catholic after leaving the jehovah's witnesses some 17 years ago?
why, it's the way it totally irritates people and really pushes their buttons...that is, if you are one of the unfortunate jehovah's witnesses who happens across my door during field service.
i have developed several techniques to make it very frustrating to the unwary witness who hopes to make headway at my house.
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John_Mann
The goal of Catholicism is not to irritate people.
The goal of Catholicism is the salvation of the soul. And you cannot achieve this by irritating but understanding.