It is true that the English word Bishop derives from the Greek word Episkopos.
dropoffyourkeylee
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2013 New World Translation
by Jerome56 inon their website in the video "organizational accomplishments" watchtower devotes this segment to praising the superiority of the new world translation.
about half way through, david splane relates the reason for a change in wording from the old 1984 nwt reference bible to the 2013 revised nwt.
he said this was because of the recent discovery of an older manuscript that contained the greek word for overseer that was unavailable when the reference bible was being compiled.
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How About.....YOU Doing the Shunning?
by titch inhello, folks: about a month ago, stan livedeath started a post about.
how many of the readers here on the site have been or are now being shunned by friends/relatives?
well, let's turn that around a little bit: how many of the readers here have purposely shunned a witness, when they encountered them?
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dropoffyourkeylee
Avoiding an awkward situation or unpleasant person is more of a personality trait than shunning. People I extremely dislike or make me uncomfortable, JW or not, I will avoid meeting up with. I just don't need that negative energy in my life.
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Opinions on the Divine name in the New Testament? + an interesting question
by Blotty ini am genuinely curious and mainly posting this for research purposes, i do not have enough knowledge on either of these subjects to debate them in any useful manner.. (this information is as far as i am aware and may be incorrect in places)as most know the nwt is known for placing a form of the divine name in the nt (new testament) - while i agree the evidence is significantly weak for it too appear in the nt, a few things must be considered - (from my limited research)rev references the name twice (3:12, 14:1)early copies of the lxx contain the divine name (likely the versions that the nt writers copied?
stafford has a couple of videos on this subject)it was emphasized over and over the name [divine name, which ever form you prefer] would be "known" (other words used aswell) forever - if this is true, why then go against your own message in some cases and replace it with a surrogate?some also claim the nwt is dishonest for not translating some occurrences of "lord" as the divine name - common ones i notice are: phil 2:10-11, 1pe 3:14-15, heb 1:10yet these all use "lord" as a title not a proper noun, seems to be staunch trinitarians who make this claim most oftenscholar qualifications:why does a scholars qualification's matter?
sounds dumb i know.
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dropoffyourkeylee
Maybe it is sarcasm
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2013 New World Translation
by Jerome56 inon their website in the video "organizational accomplishments" watchtower devotes this segment to praising the superiority of the new world translation.
about half way through, david splane relates the reason for a change in wording from the old 1984 nwt reference bible to the 2013 revised nwt.
he said this was because of the recent discovery of an older manuscript that contained the greek word for overseer that was unavailable when the reference bible was being compiled.
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dropoffyourkeylee
No, sounds like BS to me. What verse is he referring to?
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Request----2022 Circuit Overseer Guidelines in PDF!
by Atlantis in2022 circuit overseer guidelines pdf.. .
https://www.filemail.com/d/kphgslnjfxwgjxk .
atlantis!.
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dropoffyourkeylee
Thanks Earnest!
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Request----2022 Circuit Overseer Guidelines in PDF!
by Atlantis in2022 circuit overseer guidelines pdf.. .
https://www.filemail.com/d/kphgslnjfxwgjxk .
atlantis!.
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dropoffyourkeylee
Thanks Atlantis!
I have been looking at this document and I am having a brainfart. What is Harbor Witnessing? p37
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An interesting Observation of some Bibles
by Blotty infirst of all, hi, i go by blotty on this website :) i am someone who has a passion for the bible and like to get a as balanced view as i can from the trinitarian and the jw (or unitarian) side - even though i come off as leaning towards one or the other at times, in my opinion they both have merits in certain cases..if this is in the wrong section i apologise - this is just something i found interesting.iv seen online a lot that say the watchtower and tract society "invented" the link between proverbs 8:22 - 30 and jesus (the word).
yet interestingly some "mainstream" "trinitarian- aimed" translations are cross referencing the following:source:https://www.biblegateway.comprov 8:22 cr rev 3:14niv, gnt,esv, nasb, nasb1995, nasbre, cevprov 8:30 cr john 1:1,2 esv nasbprov 8:30 cr john 1:3esvnasb1995nasb(this list is by no means complete)if this is simply wisdom, why is it referenced with jesus (or the word)?.
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dropoffyourkeylee
I concur with Earnest here. The Wisdom/Christ identity predates Russell and the JWs by many centuries.
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Resolution in Korean assembly in 1971
by pokertopia into jehovah's witnesses.
we express our position on [jehovah's witnesses] under the [watchew tower bible and booklet association] as follows.. .
1. jehovah's witnesses claimed that jesus christ was brought back in the fall of 1874 rather than 1914 and planned people to come out of the established church, so this organization is regarded as a false prophet.
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dropoffyourkeylee
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DUBTOWN has been resurrected!!
by BoogerMan insomething to cheer about, after the jw cult's failure to silence kevin mcfree.
closed captions/subtitles are facilitated.
enjoy.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqdxo1v8ilm&t=481s.
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dropoffyourkeylee
Kudos to Kevin, and thanks for taking the time to make these videos. I've done a bit of video editing, and I know the time it takes to write, create the screenshots, and edit these videos is not trivial.
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DUBTOWN has been resurrected!!
by BoogerMan insomething to cheer about, after the jw cult's failure to silence kevin mcfree.
closed captions/subtitles are facilitated.
enjoy.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqdxo1v8ilm&t=481s.
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dropoffyourkeylee
We don't need no stinkin' badges!
LOL
One of my favorite movie quotes