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  Is there “new light” on 1914?

  by wallsofjericho in

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  i’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .

  is this regarding 1914?

  or micheal the arch angel?.

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  Jeffro

  I have not asserted any unique or novel claim about the correct date of the solstice.

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  Yes, and neither have you published a single line of evidence that disproves 607 BCE!!!

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  Is there “new light” on 1914?

  by wallsofjericho in

  1. watchtower
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  i’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .

  is this regarding 1914?

  or micheal the arch angel?.

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  Jeffro

  That is a lie you need to tell yourself but I actually understand the dating system very well.

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  Self-praise is no recommendation. If you are such an expert then please provide specific information on that solstice or other that you have published.

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  Did Jesus Die On a Stake or a Cross?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  dominic enyart exposes watchtower deception regarding their demonization of the cross.

  information packed.

  interesting take on paganism as well.

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  PioneerSchmioneer

  I actually studied Samuelsson's thesis and sat in on what turned out to be an overblown reaction to his work that ended up being AP getting "egg on their face," so to speak.

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  I am somewhat surprised by this comment as one reviewer stated in a Book Review of Samuelsson's thesis "His work is not to be ignored, despite the criticisms I have made. It is a valuable contribution to the debate".

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  The work is a philosophical work not an etymological one (based on the science of language). It is not a critical theory nor does he claim it to be. He does suggest that religion and iconography more than language has more to do with what people know about the crucifixion, and this has shaped what people know about what the gospels say about the event.

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  I disagree that this thesis is 'a philosophical work not an etymological one'. Samuelsson clearly states in his methodology that his research is philological and its introductory section discusses the role of lexicography in its treatment of stauros and other related terms.

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  In making any review of published scholarship it is an academic practice to consider literature or book reviews published in academic journals and one such review by John Granger Cook among others is worthy of attention.

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  Is there “new light” on 1914?

  by wallsofjericho in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .

  is this regarding 1914?

  or micheal the arch angel?.

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  Jeffro

  No, doofus. Just because you don’t understand the dating systems, that doesn’t mean I don’t. Which is irrelevant anyway.

  It is physically impossible for a solstice to have occurred on 9 July on the Julian calendar in the neo-Babylonian period.

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  No, boofhead. You do not understand the dating systems either so we are in the same boat learning together in appreciating that this is not an exact science.when it comes to Chronology..Your comment about the solstice and its NB context versus a modern calendation is your opinion.

  scholar JW
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  Is there “new light” on 1914?

  by wallsofjericho in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .

  is this regarding 1914?

  or micheal the arch angel?.

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  Jeffro

  Says the deluded member of a minor denomination that asserts a rewrite of Neo-Babylonian history with no support from any historian.

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  Says someone who advocates a chronology that is based on a dubious historical record that fails to account for the missing 7 years of Neb's reign, the fact of a Jewish population residing in its capital city, Babylon for 70 years or whatever 50 years and the notorious gap of 20 years between NB Chronology and Bible Chronology.

  Further, 'such a minor denomination' has produced the finest translation of the Bible, the NWT and the most accurate Bible Chronology in existence.

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  Is there “new light” on 1914?

  by wallsofjericho in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .

  is this regarding 1914?

  or micheal the arch angel?.

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  Jeffro

  • The dates for the solstice are known and aren’t calculated by me. Your ad hominem is an irrelevant distraction.

    The dates are known in our modern calendar and that is one thing but constructing a chronology upon such dates is another matter entirely as one has to go back to an ancient calendar and its assumptions. That is why one has to be cautious in saying that a certain year cannot have begun in May. or thereabouts.

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  129

  Is there “new light” on 1914?

  by wallsofjericho in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .

  is this regarding 1914?

  or micheal the arch angel?.

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  Jeffro

  Entirely wrong. The Bible explicitly says willingly serving Babylon was the way to avoid exile.

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  That was a warning only for the historical reality was that the Jewish nation was exiled to Babylon for 70 years. Are you trying to rewrite history? Your winging is simply historical revisionism at its best!!!

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  129

  Is there “new light” on 1914?

  by wallsofjericho in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .

  is this regarding 1914?

  or micheal the arch angel?.

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  Jeffro

  Poor ‘scholar’. His only defence against the solstice problem is pleading ignorance and more ad hominem.--

  Nope! Scholar has already given you facts and a quoted conclusion where you give nothing just a whining and winging of a virgin on her wedding night.

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  129

  Is there “new light” on 1914?

  by wallsofjericho in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .

  is this regarding 1914?

  or micheal the arch angel?.

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  Jeffro

  ‘invisible thing that we have no way of demonstrating was totally for reals because coincidence at wrong time of year’. (And let’s keep pretending WWI broke out of nowhere rather than being a fairly predictable continuation of the Balkan wars.)

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  Hence the invisible has now become manifest as the visible by means of three things namely the Great War, the observed fulfilment of the 'Sign' and the birth of God's organization or 'new nation'.

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  Is there “new light” on 1914?

  by wallsofjericho in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .

  is this regarding 1914?

  or micheal the arch angel?.

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  Jeffro

  Already provided many times before, but even if I hadn’t, your blustering is a fallacious argument from ignorance. And the Bible still never even mentions 70 years of exile.

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  You are like the virgin on her wedding night who fails to deliver!

  You have not and cannot provide one, single line of evidence that disproves 607 BCE relying on insults, tantrums and false reasoning.

  The Bible most emphatically describes the Jewish/Babylonian Exile of 70 years which all WT critics have ignored proving their intellectual dishonesty. For example, COJ does not discuss the subject at all and one would be hard placed to find even the word 'exile' in his writings.

  Please stay as scholar wants to play!

  scholar JW