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  The Appeal and Draw of the Watchtower

  by Saved_JW in

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  2. beliefs

  when i first left the watchtower organization in 2008, a flood of emotions came back to me.

  betrayal, anger, resentment, deep depression from the relationships lost.

  emotions seemed to guide my viewpoint of others as well.

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  Critique of the lastest New World Translation?

  by dontfitin in

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  2. bible

  hi, i'm a long-time lurker who is still in due to family.

  i'm hoping someone here can help me.. is there anywhere online that i can find a critique of the new bible revision?

  one of the things that really got me was when i researched about the new world translation and found how there was no basis for adding jehovah's name in the new testament, and then other areas where they translated to accommodate their interpretation.

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  The mythical meaning of the “Lord’s Supper” was revealed to Paul by Christ, not by any man

  by Doug Mason in

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  the following is from: christian beginnings, geza vermes pages 91, 92, 98.

  paul inherited from his predecessors a second great cult practice, the communal meal, referred to as the breaking of the bread as well as thanksgiving or eucharist in greek.

  as in the case of baptism, paul supplied a new meaning to the community meal and turned it into an imitation and repetition of the lords supper.

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  Peshitta, Aramaic New Testament

  by Connie in

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  2. bible

  has anyone come across this line of research on the new testament?

  i stumbled upon it today researching the divine name, and textual criticism of the nt.

  it seems that the peshitta is an aramaic translation that has been handed down through the centuries without the controversies of the greek translation.

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  When did the Great Crowd start forming?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  2. bible

  i realize that rutherford received a flash of light regarding the identity of the gc in the year 1935, but that does not tell us when the crowd began to form.

  what would be the earliest date?

  any ideas or quotes from wt literature?

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  The canonised Old Testament is no different from the Apocrypha except with more scary fables and mythology

  by fukitol in

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  2. bible

  the apocryphal books are accepted by catholics in their douay version as inspired of god, but rejected by the rest of christianity?.

  why?.

  when you examine the reasons for and against acceptance of the apocrypha as divinely inspired or not, it dawns on you that the traditionally accepted 39 books of the hebrew scriptures are nothing but the same sort of stuff as the more recent apocryphal books are, with the only difference being that the 39 much older ot books contain a lot more scary stories, fables and mythology invented by the ancient jewish priesthood to frighten their followers into fear and obedience and continued giving of meat sacrifices for the priests to eat.. ultimately, the ot can be summarised as nothing but a mixture of relatively accurate historical jewish war histories and genealogies, such as the aprocrypha is, mingled with scary stories made up by the ancient jewish priests and scribes..

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