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  researching polytheism of the Jews

  by DeWandelaar in

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  i was researching the history of the jews and in wikipedia it is said that in origin the jews were polytheists by default and became monotheist in a later period of time.

  i was not aware of this (neither do many others) and am therefore putting some of my findings here:.

  first of all the obvious things.

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  And "sin" as in sin, sinai etc is another pagan god.

  Single monosyllabic words with either L or R are common in many god names, el, ra, bel, allah in the middle east.
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  The Book of Revelation and our Time

  by Crazyguy in

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  i know there are not many peterists out there but for the sake of argument all you bible believers, a question for you.

  its looking more and more like the book of revelation was written for john's time and not ours.

  the number mentioned 666 is more likely 616 for the emperor caligula who put a statue of himself in the temple at jerusalem, and the first verses in the book and the last chapter all say that these thing will happen quickly.

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  its amazing how blind so many people are to what revelation actually is.
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  Why are the moms so attached to religion?

  by ILoveTTATT in

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  please don't take this the wrong way, i would love it for women to comment on this thread because i just can't understand something!!.

  here's the pattern i see:.

  mostly guys in here.. if the guys are married, their wives usually stay a jw, or it takes 3 times as much time to convince a woman to leave than a man.. if the guys have a jw father, the father is open-minded and can be more easily persuaded to leave.

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  Adamah

  Perhaps we should study Mein Kampf, too, since it also contains a few grains of truth in it, too, and it even contains proscriptions for practices that the Bible endorses (eg genocide, misoyny, slavery, etc)?

  mP:

  Plus Hitler was the first to ban smoking in public places.
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  researching polytheism of the Jews

  by DeWandelaar in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was researching the history of the jews and in wikipedia it is said that in origin the jews were polytheists by default and became monotheist in a later period of time.

  i was not aware of this (neither do many others) and am therefore putting some of my findings here:.

  first of all the obvious things.

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  mP

  You can find a lot of pagan gods in various key religious words in judaism.

  El = Canaanite god as you note.

  Amen = Egyptian god, Amen=Amun etc

  Adonai=Lord=Assyrian god

  Samson = sun a pagan god.

  Strange how the jews copied or used pagan god names in these key words.
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  After 2000 years since JC was executed ,why have we heard not a whisper from GOD ALMIGHTY ?

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he/she had no problem talking to adam and eve ,though they were sinners in his/her sight .throughout the hebrew sriptures, ot, he /she had no problem communicating with fallen man ,imperfect humans , to dictate his will to his subjects by means of prophets , male and female ,according to the bible , the old testament ,the hebrew scriptures , god communicated not once ,not twice ,not even thrice ,but dozens of times during the first 4000 years of human history according to the bible.. why has this god been so silent these past 2000 years ,when their have been atrocities above the scale of anything that has ever been seen these past 6000 years of human existence .. oh you may say that the atrocities were not committed by god they were committed by man.

  fair enough .but god intervened in human affairs in such smaller infringements.

  with prophets or so the bible says.. the so called apostacy after the last of the apostles , the influence of satan in the world ,( or was that after 1914 ,) and the 2000 year gap when christ was supposed to return ,never mind about all the crap that went before it .. the fact remains we have never heard from god ,any god, or even" a " god, with either his/her approval or disapproval of events good or bad these past 2000 years... smiddy.

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  gary

  I don't think so, and evidently neither did Sylvia Brown. However, according to this link some people have been cured of AIDS thanks to Russ Kline.

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  Well maybe they got better by themselves. Many people live with AIDS while others die after a short time. AIDS is not fully understood. When any miracle worker cures an amputee then i will believe.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses: If the 144,000 were not defiled by women, does that not make them ALL men?

  by I_love_Jeff in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  and unmarried, of course, since they are all virgins?.

  since you are taking this all literally, perhaps you need to re-read the verses carefully.

  if parts of this verse are to be taken figuratively then how do you determine the number, 144,000 to be literal?.

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  More proof revelation is talking about Nero...

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_marriage

  Medieval

  A same-sex marriage between the two men Pedro Díaz and Muño Vandilaz in the Galician municipality of Rairiz de Veiga in Spain occurred on 16 April 1061. They were married by a priest at a small chapel. The historic documents about the church wedding were found at Monastery of San Salvador de Celanova. [70]

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  The first Roman emperor to have married a man was Nero , who is reported to have married two other men on different occasions. His first marriage was with one of his freedmen , Pythagoras , to whom Nero took the role of the bride. Later, as a groom, Nero married a young boy who resembled one of his concubines. [64] named Sporus in a very public ceremony with all the solemnities of matrimony, and lived with him as his spouse. A friend gave the "bride" away as required by law. The marriage was celebrated separately in both Greece and Rome in extravagant public ceremonies. [65]
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  People that believe in the hell fire doctrine, do the believe in cremation?

  by jam in

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  2. beliefs

  nothing like getting an early start if one believe in the hell.

  fire doctrine.. seriously, what are jw's view on cremation?

  can not recall but.

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  jam:

  So its burial, letting vultures eat the dead and more.
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  After 2000 years since JC was executed ,why have we heard not a whisper from GOD ALMIGHTY ?

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he/she had no problem talking to adam and eve ,though they were sinners in his/her sight .throughout the hebrew sriptures, ot, he /she had no problem communicating with fallen man ,imperfect humans , to dictate his will to his subjects by means of prophets , male and female ,according to the bible , the old testament ,the hebrew scriptures , god communicated not once ,not twice ,not even thrice ,but dozens of times during the first 4000 years of human history according to the bible.. why has this god been so silent these past 2000 years ,when their have been atrocities above the scale of anything that has ever been seen these past 6000 years of human existence .. oh you may say that the atrocities were not committed by god they were committed by man.

  fair enough .but god intervened in human affairs in such smaller infringements.

  with prophets or so the bible says.. the so called apostacy after the last of the apostles , the influence of satan in the world ,( or was that after 1914 ,) and the 2000 year gap when christ was supposed to return ,never mind about all the crap that went before it .. the fact remains we have never heard from god ,any god, or even" a " god, with either his/her approval or disapproval of events good or bad these past 2000 years... smiddy.

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  Fern

  (Why does the "true religion" secretly blind its followers to the "Good News" according to Paul, Moses, Isaiah and Psalms?)

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  There is no good news. jesus only preached to the jews. isa wants to destroy everything, moses was a genocidal maniac etc.
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  After 2000 years since JC was executed ,why have we heard not a whisper from GOD ALMIGHTY ?

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he/she had no problem talking to adam and eve ,though they were sinners in his/her sight .throughout the hebrew sriptures, ot, he /she had no problem communicating with fallen man ,imperfect humans , to dictate his will to his subjects by means of prophets , male and female ,according to the bible , the old testament ,the hebrew scriptures , god communicated not once ,not twice ,not even thrice ,but dozens of times during the first 4000 years of human history according to the bible.. why has this god been so silent these past 2000 years ,when their have been atrocities above the scale of anything that has ever been seen these past 6000 years of human existence .. oh you may say that the atrocities were not committed by god they were committed by man.

  fair enough .but god intervened in human affairs in such smaller infringements.

  with prophets or so the bible says.. the so called apostacy after the last of the apostles , the influence of satan in the world ,( or was that after 1914 ,) and the 2000 year gap when christ was supposed to return ,never mind about all the crap that went before it .. the fact remains we have never heard from god ,any god, or even" a " god, with either his/her approval or disapproval of events good or bad these past 2000 years... smiddy.

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  GARY

  Oh you may say that the atrocities were not committed by GOD they were committed by man. Fair enough .

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  Thats because man invented god and along the way he invented other stuff to this advantage.

  GARY

  But GOD intervened in human affairs in such smaller infringements. with prophets or so the bible says

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  name ont that you can prove. most of the extraordinary stories are all lies and onlly occured in the imagination and story telling sessions of the authors and those that repeated.
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  After 2000 years since JC was executed ,why have we heard not a whisper from GOD ALMIGHTY ?

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he/she had no problem talking to adam and eve ,though they were sinners in his/her sight .throughout the hebrew sriptures, ot, he /she had no problem communicating with fallen man ,imperfect humans , to dictate his will to his subjects by means of prophets , male and female ,according to the bible , the old testament ,the hebrew scriptures , god communicated not once ,not twice ,not even thrice ,but dozens of times during the first 4000 years of human history according to the bible.. why has this god been so silent these past 2000 years ,when their have been atrocities above the scale of anything that has ever been seen these past 6000 years of human existence .. oh you may say that the atrocities were not committed by god they were committed by man.

  fair enough .but god intervened in human affairs in such smaller infringements.

  with prophets or so the bible says.. the so called apostacy after the last of the apostles , the influence of satan in the world ,( or was that after 1914 ,) and the 2000 year gap when christ was supposed to return ,never mind about all the crap that went before it .. the fact remains we have never heard from god ,any god, or even" a " god, with either his/her approval or disapproval of events good or bad these past 2000 years... smiddy.

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  @gary

  has he ever restored arms to amputees ?