it really is common sense, but nobody here seems to recognize or acknowledge this blatant and obvious truth.. the holy bible is the result of the catholic liturgy.
they used these scriptures in their religious practices and confirmed which books would and would not be part of their cannon.
they picked, preserved and promoted these books and gave 'the word of god' to the world.. i know that pisses off some folks, but it is the truth [not the 'truth'tm].
Also the RCC it's the only one that uses the Septuaginta.
Jews and Protestants use the canon from the Masoretic Text.
Actually, I think the only ones who use the Septuagint are the Greek Orthodox. For most of its history, the Catholics have used the Latin Vulgate, as its “Old Testament” which was produced and translated into Latin using 5 or 6 versions available at the time, including the Septuagint. (Most of the other versions are partially or completely lost.)
by some estimates there are up to 40,000 different christian religions.
everyone of them started by a man or a woman.. shakers {ann lee} , quakers [george fox], baptists [john smyth] , mormons [joseph smith] , jws {charles russell] etc, etc can all trace their history to a singular human.. all can do this except for one religion.
catholic church was started by jesus or the apostles or both?.
The Catholic Church (and by extension, Christianity) was started by Saint Paul, who wrote more than half the “Greek Scriptures”. The apostles were still attending synagogues in Acts, so they weren’t out to found a new religion.
I strongly suspect Paul was influenced by the guidance given by Plato in The Republic, as to how to organise a noble religion (eg a god of pure virtue, love and not represented by any animal figure, etc). Paul would have had to have read Plato, given his Greek education. That would also explain why he wrote all those letters to those Greek city states; they would have recognised it and been a little more receptive to the message,
It seems to me much ado about nothing, to me. What Smollett did was very newsworthy, etc, but on a criminal scale, fairly minor. He has been punished in that he forfeited a bail of $100k, and has to do community service.
I don’t know details of the relevant Chicago legal justice system, but it sounds similar to a procedure that happens in Magistrates Courts in Australia (at least in some states). If the offence is relatively minor, a criminal magistrate may impose a fine and order “no conviction be recorded”. The only difference being that in a Australia, the defendant would have formally pleaded guilty, first, which doesn’t seemed to have happened here.
watctower has posted a $40,000,000 bond following montana's upholding of the nunez v watchtower verdict of 2018. punitive damages have been upheld, and wt has purchased the bond from travelers insurance (35m+ interest)-montana sc will rule later this year on the appeal.. .
Very interesting info, Solzhenitsyn.
Of course the money he was talking about flowed out of a $40-50 billion USD worldwide asset pool.
Presumably this includes all Kingdom Halls?
heya all!.
over the last few months i've been doing a lot more support work with people who are waking up and exiting the "truth" .
i'm part of a team that receives on average 10 new emails, messages or contact through various means, from ones who have just awoken to the realisation that they have been in a cult!.
Awesome!
PS: is that 10 emails a day, or 10 a week, etc?
sorry for my poor english, i hope to make not too many mistakes.
im a jw and in the last three years i have studied a lot the topic of the earth being flat.
i have a good scientific background so im not stupid or crazy.
Bye
sorry for my poor english, i hope to make not too many mistakes.
im a jw and in the last three years i have studied a lot the topic of the earth being flat.
i have a good scientific background so im not stupid or crazy.
Well if the sun was that low over Syene, the sun would have barely come over the horizon in Athens at the same time, even during the summer solstice:
sorry for my poor english, i hope to make not too many mistakes.
im a jw and in the last three years i have studied a lot the topic of the earth being flat.
i have a good scientific background so im not stupid or crazy.
Ok. Can you explain me the hypothesis made by erathostenes? He was making two hypothesis. One was that the earth is a sphere. The othe is that tha rays of sun are parallel. Isnt it?
Well, you have to remember that for at least 2 centuries before Erathostenes, the Greeks had concluded the Earth was curved for a number of reasons, including that there were star constellations visible in Egypt that were never visible in Greece. Initially, there were some who thought it was a cylinder instead of a sphere, but the math didn't work.
I think it is reasonable to assume suns rays are parallel, or to be more precise, light travels in a straight line (putting aside gravity and general relativity for the moment). No reason for light to bend, only because it enters a well.
sorry for my poor english, i hope to make not too many mistakes.
im a jw and in the last three years i have studied a lot the topic of the earth being flat.
i have a good scientific background so im not stupid or crazy.
Eratosthenes arrived to define the radius of the globe. Or not?
Correct. If you can measure and compare the angle of the sun above 2 wells north-south of each other by a significant distance, then calculating the radius of the earth is a simple trigonometric exercise.
In short, the radius will equal the (difference in angle / 90°) x the distance between the 2 wells divided by π/2.
sorry for my poor english, i hope to make not too many mistakes.
im a jw and in the last three years i have studied a lot the topic of the earth being flat.
i have a good scientific background so im not stupid or crazy.
Shepherdless. Tell me what eratosthenes obtained as a result
Earthmeasured, well the rest is just trigonometry. And simple trigonometry at that. Before going on, I would prefer that you acknowledge that the sun's shadow down a well can give a very accurate measure of the angle to vertical of the sun above the Earth.
