In my studies I have found that much of the Bible is a retelling of older stories from Babylon, Sumerian, and Egypt. It's starting to look to me as though the writer of the book of Revelations may have used the idea of Tiamat 's monsters as his templet when writing about the beasts in this book. One similarity is the scorpion men or the men depicted as having scorpions tales that will ride around and kill a third of the earth. Tiamat also had scorpion men. As the story goes Marduk kills Tiamat the Dragon and the monsters give up. Jesus does the same in the book of revelations. Your thoughts has anyone else studied this?
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Revelations monsters and beasts just a retelling of the monsters of Tiamat?
by Crazyguy inin my studies i have found that much of the bible is a retelling of older stories from babylon, sumerian, and egypt.
it's starting to look to me as though the writer of the book of revelations may have used the idea of tiamat 's monsters as his templet when writing about the beasts in this book.
one similarity is the scorpion men or the men depicted as having scorpions tales that will ride around and kill a third of the earth.
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2005 - The year the Society began its decline (without anyone noticing)!
by cedars ini've just finished an article for randy over on freeminds.org, which i've submitted to him for review.
hopefully it should be online soon, so please keep checking!.
the article discusses the fact that the watch tower society is already in decline, and suggests the year 2005 as the turning point.
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1995 was to the next generations 1975. The Borg recovered from 1975 but do to the internet really picking up steam in 2000 the Borg is not recovering from 1995. They have quit trying to push for huge numbers of recruits in third world countries and are now just focusing on trying to retain members in countries like the US, Canada and western Europe. There is a YouTube channel called Mike and Kim and they have only about a thousand subscribers but are always reporting the numbers of those that have contacted them that say they have quit the Borg. These numbers are telling. I believe the Borg is loosing a lot more members then we are being told by their published numbers. Its also worth mentioning that countries that had huge growth not to long ago countries like Japan and Brazil, their numbers are now stagnant. The internet is having a huge effect! -
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WHAT JESUS REALLY MEANT Vs the GOVERNING BODY'S VERSION OF THE BIBLE.
by skepticSam ini found these contrasts incredible, anyone who claims that following the watchtower's bizarre aloof teachings is a "insurance policy" needs to have their heads examined.
these people were once in line with the watchtower's leaders until they got tossed out of the organization during the great purging of anointed jws in 2012.. the more i am around the worldly people, the more i see how insane jws are and the lack of love they have.
their selfish, always wanting to mooch off each other, steal from their brothers and sisters, evade taxes, cheat and hate playing by the rules.
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God Answers the Prayers of the Earring Hunters
by konceptual99 injust a small anecdote from the meeting last night.. in the item interviewing a couple of older, long standing ones, one of the sisters was asked how jehovah had answered her prayers.
her response was "in lots of ways but it's the little ways i think of the most.
for example, when i am rushing to get ready for the meeting and putting my earrings in and i drop the butterfly clip on the floor and cannot find it.
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I thought it was 500,000 that died in that Indonesian tsunami. Then another 200,000 plus in the Haitian earthquake but hey who's counting God loves us so much.😉 -
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watchtower not following 1st and second commandment because they are ostrasizing and shunning fellow humans
by poopie inshunning violates the law of love that is principled love agape.
you can never justify shunning another human made in gods image no human has the god given right to completely shun another human by giving them the silent treatment.
its also a form of bullying which the watchtower condems on its own website.
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Is it necessary to prepare for the Watchtower or book study?
by BashfulAshG inall of my years in the truth, i never understood why we had to study before each meeting.
the contents are self-explanatory with the answers to the printed question within the first or the last sentence of the paragraph.
then, commenting never made sense, especially comments and experiences that don't answer the printed question.
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Not unless you have only a 1st grade education. -
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watchtower not following 1st and second commandment because they are ostrasizing and shunning fellow humans
by poopie inshunning violates the law of love that is principled love agape.
you can never justify shunning another human made in gods image no human has the god given right to completely shun another human by giving them the silent treatment.
its also a form of bullying which the watchtower condems on its own website.
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Yahweh was a pagan cannanite God 2000 years before Abraham??? Shocker!
by Witness 007 inyears ago i used wikipedia to study "yahweh" ..i was shocked to find out yahweh was one of many gods in the cannanite religion.
there i see a cannanite coin with pagan yahweh on his winged chariot???
this was faith destroying.
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Umbertoecho, the words' I am' sound phonetically in Hebrew or Aramaic just like 'ayah or Ea'. It's worth mentioning that the babylonians and Sumerians, one of thier top God's was named Ea also known as Enki. So was God telling moses his name was 'I am' or Ea? This God Enki is also the god that saved Noah from the flood in the original stories, confused the language of one of the Sumerian cities and kept Adamu from gaining immortality.
Witness007, using a plural word to describe God maybe what the Hebrews were doing with the word elohim but it's the only case in all thier language were they ever did such a thing. As for Solomons temple which has never been found or any evidence of him. It was built facing east and just like the temple of Arina Dara having 33 similarities to this temple. So why would the true God have Solomon copy a temple to a goddess and have it face east like the temples of the son God's?
Smiddy, you are correct as to what the Jews believe, this idea of a Satan didn't really come to be in the Hebrew beliefs until after the Persian conquered babylonian and took over rule of the Jews. The original Bible translations of the Bible don't call Satan Satan just adversary. This is because the adversary of a god named Enlil was his half brother Enki. Several of the stories we find in the old testament, Adam, Noah's flood, tower of babel, garden of eden, we're all introduced to the Jews while they were in captivity at Babylon.
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Yahweh was a pagan cannanite God 2000 years before Abraham??? Shocker!
by Witness 007 inyears ago i used wikipedia to study "yahweh" ..i was shocked to find out yahweh was one of many gods in the cannanite religion.
there i see a cannanite coin with pagan yahweh on his winged chariot???
this was faith destroying.
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Sorry but your mistaken. The original God of the Israelites was El, the storm God was one of his offspring named baal Hadad. The idea that yahweh was also one of El's offspring was never proved and many of the mentioning of this God was just found to be that of the god Yam another one of El's creations and the god of the sea. Most scholars believe that the Israelites worshipped El as thier primary God then in time switched to Hadad. Hadad took on the attributes of El and even Asherah. Some believe, yahweh was introduced from the eastern desert to the Jews and took on or absorbed the attributes of all the God's mentioned above. I believe that the tetrogramiton YHW may have in fact been a symbol meaning the family of God's El, Baal Hadad, Asherah etc. Most of the references to God in the Hebrew Bible was the word elohim which means God's and not God. There are of course times when the Jews would call on just one God out of this pantheon. Oldest found Bible artifact was a silver silinder quoting verses found in the book of numbers saying to the effect 'may the Lord be with us', which translates 'may baal be with us'. -
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The Verdict: God is Not Good.
by cappytan innot sure if this video has been posted before here or not, but it is a powerful scene.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx7irfn2gdi.
i haven't watched the entire movie yet, but from this scene alone, i will be..
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This is what led me to finally wake up. Since childhood I could not understand stand God's reactions and all his killings. I mean really kill the first man a woman for eating a piece of fruit and then torture them before they die. Or at the flood kill all mankind all animals and all vegetation for something the angels did. Didn't make sence, I'm much happier knowing I have more love in my left nut then the god of the Bible has in his whole being.