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Mark 8:36 "What profit a man to gain the whole world...
by kepler in... and lose his soul.
" when jws came to my house years ago to instruct me on "what the bible really teaches", i gathered from the text that doctrine made a distinction between humans and spirits such as angels.
the belief in a bodily resurrection made the notion of a soul either redundant or something that would be extinguished.
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Broadcast on BBC News Service to America: Heart & Soul, "Witness Protection"
by kepler insorry about the delay on this, but about a week ago (sunday night?
) at 11:30 central daylight savings time in the us, the bbc news service broadcast provided an in-depth discussion of witness policy, law-suits and criminal proceedings in matters of child abuse, logs of incidents not shared with local authorities and disfellowships.
it was practically the sort of story that many correspondents on this forum have waited years to hear.
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Broadcast on BBC News Service to America: Heart & Soul, Witness Protection
by kepler insorry about the delay on this, but about a week ago (sunday night?
) at 11:30 central daylight savings time in the us, the bbc news service broadcast provided an in-depth discussion of witness policy, law-suits and criminal proceedings in matters of child abuse, logs of incidents not shared with local authorities and disfellowships.
it was practically the sort of story that many correspondents on this forum have waited years to hear.
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If the Faithful and Discreet Slave is Biblically based, shouldn't its term of indenture be long over?
by kepler inwell, we start out with a parable which in the kjv reads "well done, o good and faithful servant", corrected to be a slave and one of significant authority akin to the "fisherman" or the shepherd.
moreover it is collective.
and it didn't know it was discrete until after attorney moyle was told by rutherford that he talked too much.
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John 20: 24-29 In the NWT it says the same as elsewhere. Dissonance somewhere?
by kepler inthomas the apostle's name came up in conversation today, ostensibly about his travels to india.
i was originally wondering about the documentation for these journeys from whatever sources - and then reviewed what he had said or done in the gospels or acts.
thomas appears in the gospel of john and sources at least as early as the 3rd century describe him as a missionary to india.
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Lucifer:" Care for a light, anyone?" John Calvin: "No, thank you."
by kepler inabout a week or so ago, this old subject came up again within the family.
none of us were jws, but i see evidence that many have mulled this subject over too.
and then were a couple of remarkable coincidences.. but my less than casual reading of isaiah and ezekiel was reference to nebuchadnezzar and the king of tyre respectively.
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Knock at the door to share a thought about those that could possibly have passed on
by kepler inmorning visit by two pioneers who wanted to tell me about promise of bodily eternal life in revelations and then a quick cross reference to psalms.
i asked about the great leap between two texts, but all they could explain was that the two were written before and after the life of christ.
that was certainly not telling me anything i didn't already know, as i pointed out, and not a reason to call me away from my chores.
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Speaking of the Flood... Does the Earth Move?
by kepler injust read over the long thread about a letter to hq regarding noah's flood.
reminded of another literal litmus test.
within 7 years of beginning telescopic observations of the heavens, galileo was called to judgment by the inquisition in 1616. disputes in this case abound, but the biblical arguments for which galileo was tried and condemned "revolved" around i chronicles 16:30, psalms 93:1, 96:10, 104.5 and ecclesiastes 1:5, summarized by "the world is established; it shall never be moved.
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Naturalist Phillip Gosse (1810-88) - The Fundamentalist Answer to the Issue of the Geological Record
by kepler inthe inventor of the seawater aquarium was not only a famous 19th century british naturalist, but a member of plymouth brethren of sola scriptura fame and the publisher of an 1850s treatise to explain away the increasingly apparent, long geological and biological record.
his answer was that god had created that too.
in other words, god created the world to look like it did.
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Length of a Generation? Ask a governing agency or member of governing board
by kepler inin the saturday/sunday wall street journal for the weekend of april 9-10, 2016, in the us news section there was an article titled, "housing bust lingers for generation x.".
something clicked in my mind when i read.
"the data show an enormous swing in the fortunes of people born between 1965 and 1984, the group defined by the harvard joint center for housing studies as 'generation x'".. hmmm....generation did you say?
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