for many christians, the bible is viewed as the 100% error-free, perfect book straight from god, where every single word was carefully chosen by god for a reason.
but, usually, when you have a discussion on the topic, these christians will end up saying that only the original copies written directly from the hands of the prophets and apostles were error-free, and all manuscript copies since then are subject to copyist mistakes and other errors.. since zero original copies are in existence, how do we know the originals were error-free?
why should we think the originals should be error-free to begin with?
Simon, you like many others don't know what inspired means. It does not mean God breathed. Inspired means where did the idea come from. What inspired that song means what event or person brought out the idea for that song. Or what inspired that movie.
When Paul wrote that All scripture is inspired, he meant that the preChristian writings got their ideas from events that had to do with God and his people of the past, along with the inspired prophets.
hi guys & gals,.
we're currently preparing for the season finale of the show (to be recorded on sunday, may 24th at 2pm eastern time nyc / 6pm uk time / 4am sydney time.. as we're going to (finally) be covering 607 bce in detail, we're looking for a specialist (or two) that can come on the show and tell everyone about this almighty doctrine.
if you know your 587 from your 607 and why the 1914 and 1919 dates are important to jws (although most have no idea why), please send us an email to [email protected], using "i'm a 607er" in the subject line and let us know why we should pick you as a guest on the season finale.. can't wait to hear from you!.
I am a specialist on it.
The Gentile Times Reconsidered is not a great book because he does not reconsider anything. He just tries to prove that 587 is the destruction of Jerusalem. But if he was reconsidering the Gentile Times, he would know that the Gentile times did not start at the destruction of Jerusalem, though that was taught by the organization since Russell. He, like the WTBTS, can't see the forest through the trees.
The Gentile times started when the kings in the line of David lost their sovereignty. That happened prior to the destruction of Jerusalem in 587. The Bible says that Jerusalem was invaded and David was taken captive in the 3rd year of Jehoiakim, whose reign started 22 or 23 years prior to the destruction of Jerusalem. That invasion and Daniel was taken in 607 BCE and that started the Gentile Times because the king in the line of David became a vassel of the Babylonian king and thus was not sovereign anymore. Jehovah's throne was not subserviant to Babylon.
Daniel knew of Jeremiah's prophesy of the 70 years of captivity. He knew when that would end because he knew when that started because he was there when it started. The 70 years ended in 537 and started in 607, when Daniel was taken
what is the wackiest...strangest....most unusual jw teaching or practice?
Finkelstein: "But the bible says that his return to earth will be a physical and viewable presence"
"The Bible says..."
The Bible says whatever people want it to say. Especially if it is from Revelation.
i honestly have never heard such claptrap being delivered in a memorial talk.. the speaker repeatedly put down the way other religions administered the bread & wine, and claimed that witnesses do it exactly as the bible describes.
oh yeah????.
he forgot to mention - when reading aloud 1 corinthians 11:25 - that after passing the bread, a full meal was to be shared, before the wine was passed around!
It was awful. He said nothing of Jesus until the passing of the bread. It was all about who partake.
The only reason I went was because I have a job interview in another city. I went to that city to check things out. I went to the memorial to see if people knew of others who worked at that company, but no one did.
what is the wackiest...strangest....most unusual jw teaching or practice?
I think that you all need to learn what JWs believe before you criticize.
One said: "They believe people like Pol Pot, Jack the Ripper, Ghenghis Kahn, and other monsters from history will be resurrected"
Not true. Jws don't believe that. Some may take 'resurrection of the unrighteous' to that extreme but it does not mean that it will happen.
Finkelstein said 'Answer = That Jesus Christ returned to earth invisibly, first in 1874 then in 1914.'
JWs don't believe that. They don't believe that he returned to the earth. They believe he became king then and that he will always be invisible as he is spirit.
1sa 28:3-25 (nwt - not revised version).
7 finally saul said to his servants: seek for me a woman who is a mistress of spirit mediumship, and i will go to her and consult her.
then his servants said to him: look!
"Magnum 1Sa 28:7 Finally Saul said to his servants: “Seek for me a woman who is a mistress of spirit mediumship,"
How did Saul know that such a thing existed?
after almost 24 years in the school and doing it since i was nine years old, i officially resigned.
it has become increasingly difficult to prepare talks, especially with the new format for brothers.
i did not mind doing them; i actually put the time and effort into getting them out.
I remember one time, I said "Genesis Chapter 2, verses 1 through 15 reads..." and then started into the reading. Guess what? I was counseled to just go into the reading without saying what I was about to read.
I always did that. And I hated it and complained with brothers did not tell the scripture they were reading. They said that the School Overseer stated what was to be read. But I never paid attention to the school overseer.
film: a young man is given a powerful sword by a wise old man so that he can save the princess and defeat an evil sorcerer.
at the end of the film he saves all his friends but isn't able to defeat the sorcerer.
which film is it?.
so im here fine tooth combing the latest [mar 15th] watchtower propaganda leaflet the last study article, finding not a scripture in its correct context, [thats for another post, lol] when i thought, hmm, how many times does it say to preach in the bible.. so i go to bible gateway, and type in 'preach'.
[ not preached] .
i got 2nd timothy.. i read the whole 2 books of timothy.. an it appears to me, that paul, wh has his own agenda, wrote those words to timothy, after all it says a letter to tim, .
our family just lost someone dear and very close, a faithful jw.
as we went through the entire funeral services and meeting long time brothers and sisters, who in general have been very kind and warm towards us, we realize that the hope of resurrection is a meaningless utopia for us, like a fairytale for little children.
we don't have faith in it anymore, and serves us of no comfort.
Was the resurrection ever comforting?
When we were born it was a natural process. We control our lives. But with a resurrection, it is a case of a superior spirit now controls us to where he brought us back o life. That brings the question of why we needed to die.
