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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Jeffro

  None of these are legitimate problems. But rather than deal with them yet again on this forum, let’s spare a thought for the fact that the claim that it’s ‘impossible’ is coming from someone who thinks every animal species in the world survived a magical flood by spending a year in a wooden box. 😂

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  All of these are legitimate and historical that must be considered by any historian or chronologist so deal with them properly and not hide behind the skirts of Jonsson and the late Alan F - May he rest in peace.

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Jeffro

  Yeah, they don’t care about logic. They don’t care what the Bible actually says. All they care about is protecting their dogma.

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  Yeah, it is a prophecy about the future, expressing a future intention or purpose nicely expressed in English as 'will'.

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Bruce X

  But there are mismatches with other scriptures. That's what's important to me.

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  There are no mismatches of scriptures only mishmash of interpretations of those scriptures.

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  You believe that the 70 years were over on the day the exiles arrived at home. What does Jeremiah 29:10 say next in this verse after those 70 years were over, i.e. once the exiles arrived at home, their place? Can you answer this without making nonsense?

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  Correct. Jer. 29:10 clearly shows that after the 70 years were fulfilled the Exiles had returned home- being brought back to their place.

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  You have a human standpoint on how those scriptures are to be interpreted, that's why there are contradictions, and there is no spiritual food a the right time in over 100 years to explain it.

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  Simple. If one were to study Hermeneutics one learns about a 'horizon of understanding' thus when dealing with the interpretation of Bible prophecy there are two standpoints or horizons- human and divine. Therefore the interpretation must account for both worldviews and that is the basis of the worldview of Jehovah's Witnesses and its faithful and discreet slave and the said scholar.

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  Again, there is an interpretation of all those scriptures where you don't run into a single biblical contradiction. And the interesting thing is that it also matches archaeology, another bonus. But the problem for JW is that this harmonious interpretation doesn't support the 1914 doctrine,

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  Scholar would like to know such an interpretation, where it is, and what Bible commentary and the academic journal discussed and critiqued?

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

  1. watchtower
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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Bruce X

  There are NWT translation in at least 2 different languages where they say "for Babylon".

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  So what! The said scholar has always been perfectly happy with either 'at Babylon' or 'for Babylon . Either rendering proves that the Exiles were in Babylon for 70 years and served Babylon for 70 years.

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Jeffro

  Yes, if you change the meaning of something expressed in a different language, then the thing you changed means something different to the original. Well done you. 🤦‍♂️It's remarkably odd that you think this supports your position.

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  If you are such an expert in the original language - Hebrew in the case of Jeremiah 29:10 then pray tell what is then the correct translation and why?

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

  1. watchtower
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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Bruce X

  Got you, so you can't explain it. And certain NWT verses like "When 70 years at Babylon are fulfilled" and Ezra where it shows that the trip back was about 4 months can be ignored.

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  You certainly got me big time for I did not see such deep and meaningful question coming. Just shows how dumb and foolish scholar is. I will, give him a good spanking.

  Whatever the length of the journey is unknown and unknowable and really does not matter that the fact of the matter is that the Exiles returned in 537 BCE thus fulfilling the 70 years right on time according to Jehovah's Timetable.

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  You say that the 70 years were over on the day the exiles arrived at home. What does Jeremiah 29:10 say next in this verse after those 70 years were over, i.e. once the exiles arrived at home?

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  It simply means that at the fulfilment of the 70 years at, in or for Babylon the Exiles would be back home right on time in 537 BCE by the seventh month. Simple , you got it?

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Jeffro

  Nope. Yet another lie from the non-scholar. 4 months fits perfectly for the journey, though up to 6 months is possible depending on how early the 'decree' was made.

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  Nope The following factors mitigate against the Return of the Exiles in 538 BCE;

  1. Chronology of Darius the Mede

  2.. Timing of the Decree ?

  3. Proclamation of the Decree throughout Empire

  4. Preparations by the Exiles prior to their Journey

  5. Return trip home- route and time of Journey?

  6. Resettlement home in their cities ?

  7.. Timing of Altar Inauguration - Cyrus. 1st to 2nd year?

  8. Calendrical reckoning used by Ezra?

  Thus, any chronology for the Return must fully account for these factors and shows that to cram all of these in one year - 538 BCE is impossible but the following year- 537 BCE makes the impossible now possible and highly probable.

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Bruce X

  So seventh month of 607 BCE + 70 years in Babylon + 6 months round trip, in which year and month did they return when you add this up? Definitely not the month of Tishri in 537 BCE.-

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  We can only what the biblical texts in relation to the 70 years state and that is that the full number of 70 years had to fulfil which included the land keeping its sabbaths. The Exiles arrived home to their cities before the end of the seventy years which was the beginning of the seventh month,-Ezra 2:70 ,Tishri 537 BCE and that occasion was marked by the building of the altar-Ezra 3:3 Thus the Exiles had returned home and the 70 years was fulfilled right on time to the very month or day. Jehovah God is the Great Timekeeper he ensured that his Word was completely fulfilled from his standpoint and not from a human standpoint .

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Bruce X

  'm trying to find common ground with "scholar" on a lower bound for the round trip. Upper bound, who know

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  Unfortunately, it is a floating common ground.

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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

  by Godlyman in

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  if anyone were to come up to you claiming that they are the faithful and discreet slave, how would you go about proving them to be false, based upon scripture?.

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  Jeffro

  Ok Furuli… um… I mean… ‘scholar’ 😂

  That excuse is of course wrong. It’s dative and if it were locative, the exiles aren’t specified as the subject of the sentence anyway.

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  It is in the dative case as per the LXX. The phrase 'at Babylon' in English has locative sense i.e. indicating a location or place.

  scholar JW