Corporal punishment was common in the Ancient Near East (ANE) and was used upon the free as well as slaves: Code of Hammurabi, 211; Scourged, Twelve Tables of Roman Law 8:15 (See Quotes from various Ancient Near East Law Codes regarding Slavery). Likewise, in the Bible, the rod was applied to slaves and non-slaves alike.
Prisons, for the most part didn't exist. Punishment was meted out quickly and then society and the one punished would move on.
just an observation viewing some of their on camera appearances , and their arrogance believing they are the only one`s used by god to reach and teach the people ,despite what gj said at the arc on the subject.. no doubt the gb men wear designer tailor made suits from the best tailors in nys ?
and their wives adequately provided for in a similar way ?
nothing from kmart or target ,walmart or whatever.. shoes are probably made from form fit cobblers to fit the individual ?
If the GB can find themselves in scripture (F&DS) , then why not their wives in scripture too?
GB wives will not want to move from their lakeside mountain paradise when the money dries up.
..., she will not be moved; - Ps. 45 5
vaccinations.
how many deaths were instigated which could be prevented?watchtower policies against vaccines left faithful sheep vulnerable to horrible consequences.antitoxins and vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, anthrax, cholera, plague, typhoid, tuberculosis, and more were developed through the 1930s.. 1921 - "vaccination never prevented anything and never will, and is the most barbarous practice" - golden age oct 12, 1921, p.17.
1923 - "vaccination, summed up, is the most unhygienic, barbaric, filthy, abhorrent, and most dangerous system of infection known.
That was right during the polio epidemic. I wonder how many suffered death and crippling due to a bunch of uneducated nut jobs?
Milley assured China in days leading up to 2020 election and after Jan. 6 that he would tip them off to any U.S. military action, according to book “Peril.”
This is also not great.
AOC Wears this dress at a 35K per plate meal. When you are a south american immigrant, this means everyone you meet is "rich". Very dangerous. This is not great.
i am not so sure if i am willing to discuss cbd with my jw aunt.
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I feel pretty relaxed about it.
delta is dying.
new cdc findings show that we’re closer than ever to the end of the pandemic..
I also heard Bill Gates invented auto correct. May he burn in hello.
delta is dying.
new cdc findings show that we’re closer than ever to the end of the pandemic..
New CDC findings show that we’re closer than ever to the end of the pandemic.
now, many years later, i remember the 1995 generation change, very well.. since early youth, hearing my father explaining in field service the 2520 years.
it was his main theme in the field.. with the change my doubts started.
with some jw friends we did not trust the organization anymore.
I remember where I was sitting when the article came out. The heat started in my gut and slowly rose to me chest, then shoulders and then finally my ears. I thought I was going to explode. I called my mom and told here that it was ridiculous how we were lied to for some many years.
It was the last straw for me. I never went to another meeting after that article came out. I rented my house out and attended university at the age of 31 as a proud agnostic. Slowly, I began to understand that I had never been a Christian and that generations of my family had been hoodwinked.
the first christians were mainly of jewish decent and christianity began as a jewish sect.
jesus was a thoroughly dedicated practicing jew who never suggested the launch of a new religion.
jesus lived and died a dedicated jew.
PPete: So there was a rumor, big deal. I would be surprised if there wasn't rumors since Jesus taught that there were just two laws, love God and love your neighbor as yourself. Pretty shocking stuff to a Jewish mind....but to a Gentile , they were diggin' it.
There were plenty of rumors about Jesus too. (about foods and the washing of hands for instance) Jesus fired back when he said that it wasn't what went into a mouth that defiled a man, but what came out of it" - Wow!
I bet a lot of rumors followed that announcement. Paul is no different than Jesus.
Your dust up about Jesus and James and Peter being zealous for the Torah while Paul supposedly wasn't is much ado about nothing.
Again, (even leaving out 2 Peter references), the undisputable facts are :
1. We know Paul spent 15 days in Peter's house. James - Jesus' brother was also there for the discussions as well.
2. 14 years later, Paul comes to Jerusalem where he updates the other apostles on what he has been teaching the Gentiles and they "add nothing to him" and all extend the right hand of fellowship.
3. 1 Peter spoke about the the Substitutionary atonement, same as Paul did:
"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed". 1 Peter 2: 24
1 Pet. 3: 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened [made alive] by the Spirit:
There have never been two gospels.... only one.
If your assertions are true, why didn't the other apostles add anything to Paul when he went to Jerusalem to check if the message he had been preaching was the same as the one the other apostles were preaching?
