Posts by raymond frantz

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Advice to reduce hours earn less and spend more time on the ministry

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

the advice to reduce work and earn less to spend more time preaching has not aged well.. the cost of living crisis means many have more going out on necessities than they have coming in.. so many asked their employer to reduce their hours and refused promotion only to see their colleagues go up the ladder when they stayed lowly position with rubbish jobs thinking the end will be here soon.

next week midweek meeting is all about preparing for an economic crisis.. they say have a go bag and new advice for all jws to store food and water at home and grow a vegetable garden, i kid you not.

this is the new direction..

raymond frantz

They always seem to be half a step ahead, being in bed with all major organisations of course, and they warn their sheeply for the latest economic collapse. Their latest Watchtower speaks about the inner rooms" where they further confuse their membership when they say these inner rooms are congregations when the original application was actual physical locations. Blind leaders leading blind to their own destruction.Do what is best for your family ignore their advise.

https://youtu.be/BcHvZKW-ZCM

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Colossian 1:16 - "all OTHER things"

by aqwsed12345 in

due to their apparent theological bias, the watchtower shamelessly inserts the word "other" in order to "make room" for their own idea that jesus is also a created being.

it is clear that jehovah's witnesses try to avoid having to admit that christ created everything because "the one who constructed all things is god" (hebrews 3:4).

instead, the society teaches that "christ was the only one created by god," and that then he "created everything else with jehovah.

raymond frantz

Is there anyway you make your point with fewer words and deal with one verse at a time?

Collosians 1:15:"The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation."

The image is not the same as as the prototype

The Son is the first of all creation (=creation,ktisis,refers to physical creation) therefore Jesus is created

*I'm Greek, speak Greek and have finished 3 years in ancient Greek language

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Greek and antecedents (draft)

by Blotty in

natural antecedents (essay) + meanings to certain words.

i posted about 5 months ago a study done by daniel wallace called “greek grammar and the holy spirit” (see: source), which i have cited numerous times since – which focuses heavily on greek antecedents.

ending), and she (fem.

raymond frantz

In few words what is the point you trying to make?

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

raymond frantz

That's exactly what he is doing LMSA and based on that model we have many years ahead of us with this clown

His entire business model is dependent upon
recruiting new batches of support every
year to replace the ones who have dropped him.

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in short, there are 3 occasions in the ot where yahweh is identified with the epithet "angel".

(mal ak).