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  A little boy will lead them [i.e. the wolf...the leopard...the lion. Is. 11:6-9]

  by Wonderment in

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  don't know if this subject has been touched on here before, but i have wondered at times, how much literalness can be applied to this messianic prophecy within a paradise setting (assuming one probable interpretation of is.

  the wt presents a mental image of complete harmony between animal and mankind.. does this biblical passage somehow indicate that existing wild beasts will feed on vegetation alone.

  animals are not spoken of living forever in the bible.

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  Two of the many times I've spoken on this topic:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/187882/jw-science-quote-1-22

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/141006/jw-science-quote-day-8-28
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  Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

  by Simon in

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  i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

  it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

  plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

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  ...they said it is not in the constitution.

  Yes. Regardless of a person's personal and religious feelings on the subject, the tie-in to the Constitution (i.e. That the right to privacy guaranteed in the 1st, 3rd, 4th & 5th Amendments speaks to the legality of a medical procedure) was fanciful, to put it mildly.

  
  
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  Jesus is Michael the Archangel

  by Fisherman in

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  only jesus has the power and authority to defeat satan and kick him out of heaven:.

  “now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our god and the authority of his christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our god.”.

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  Jesus is Michael the Archangel

  by Fisherman in

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  only jesus has the power and authority to defeat satan and kick him out of heaven:.

  “now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our god and the authority of his christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our god.”.

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  Jesus is Michael the Archangel

  by Fisherman in

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  only jesus has the power and authority to defeat satan and kick him out of heaven:.

  “now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our god and the authority of his christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our god.”.

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  Jesus is Michael the Archangel

  by Fisherman in

  1. watchtower
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  only jesus has the power and authority to defeat satan and kick him out of heaven:.

  “now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our god and the authority of his christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our god.”.

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  Fisherman,

  But the context and the rest of the Bible suggests possession here. You need to factor in all the other scriptures.

  It is what it is.

  The three dative "en" phrase describe events that accompany the Lord's coming.

  The trumpet call (Dative) is "of God" (Genitive) in the same what that the voice (Dative) is "of an archangel" (Genitive)

  The verse does not identify Jesus as that archangel anymore than it identifies Jesus as God.
  
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  Jesus is Michael the Archangel

  by Fisherman in

  1. watchtower
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  only jesus has the power and authority to defeat satan and kick him out of heaven:.

  “now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our god and the authority of his christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our god.”.

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  The locative and instrumental are both subsumed under the dative in Ancient Greek, but the latter is strained without any clear indication of instrumentality.

  In this case we don't know who originates the call, what specifically it accomplishes, and how. All of that has to be assumed to make a valid case for the instrumental which is exactly how theological bias creeps in.

  I'll post some more references. The overwhelming majority of Greek grammatical and lexical aids state the construction is locative, so there are quite a few
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  Jesus is Michael the Archangel

  by Fisherman in

  1. watchtower
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  only jesus has the power and authority to defeat satan and kick him out of heaven:.

  “now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our god and the authority of his christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our god.”.

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  Not sure why most of these flew off into the ether. There were over 25 in all

  Arguing that "with" means possession works in English. It doesn't work in Ancient Greek. That's what the genitive case was for.
  
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  Jesus is Michael the Archangel

  by Fisherman in

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  only jesus has the power and authority to defeat satan and kick him out of heaven:.

  “now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our god and the authority of his christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our god.”.

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  I don't really care one way or the other. (No theological axe to grind)

  Those who believe Jesus to be Michael usually take "ἐν φωνῇ ἀρχαγγέλου" to mean possession (i.e. Jesus possesses the voice of an archangel because he is the archangel)

  I don't believe that's correct and the majority of Greek scholars don't either.

  In this construction, (locative) the preposition ἐν indicates accompaniment (Or attendant circumstance as some put it) as in, "The President entered the room with the sound of a brass band."

  Here is a very, very small sampling of textbooks and reference works on the subject:

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
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  Voter Fraud !

  by Sea Breeze in

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  dick morris sounds the alert:.

  https://www.dickmorris.com/fight-massive-democratice-fraud/ .

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  MMM
  

  But I doubt there is tie between the ballot and the ID. That would remove confidentiality.

  The connection (Or lack thereof) to a living person is only supposed to be verified by computer. There are people with physical access to the voter database, but they are legally bound to respect confidentiality. One of the objections of the Board of Supervisors to turning over the database to a third party was that (In the opinion of their attorneys) it was technically a violation of the law, as a third party might not respect that confidentiality.

  And at one point, the Cyber Ninjas actually did want to canvass votes they thought were suspect. The idea was that ballots that appeared to be filled out too precisely were actually done by machine. That was prevented by threat of legal action.

  Another theory of the Cyber Ninja's was that "fake" ballots would contain bamboo fiber (Presumably because they had been produced in Asia) To my knowledge, they did not find any.

  At no point did the Ninja's ever seem to understand that the signature is not the primary verification in AZ, as the whole idea was to prevent illegals from voting. The Republicans got what they wanted. They got a system where voter registration must tie to a state issued ID for the vote to be counted. Suddenly, almost overnight some of them have developed amnesia.

  Like I said, the system is not fool-proof. There were two people monitoring the drop box I saw, but I only saw one. I don't doubt that some were not monitored properly, but to me, it's a huge jump from that to ballots forged in quantities to tip the election one way or another.