Well when your told most of your life that the end will come before a generation of people die, it's god promise and it doesn't come true your left kinda hanging.
Crazyguy
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Their lamps are going out.
by biblexaminer ineveryone here has read mt.
25 and knows the illustration of the virgins with the lamps.
i have mentioned this illustration in conversation with several dubbies, to draw attention to their foolishness in following watchtower's false reasoning.. in the illustration, there are two kinds of virgins, or people.
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Genesis Lifetimes and Numerology
by schnell inout of morbid curiosity, i would like to here reduce the digits of the lifetimes stated in genesis chapter 5. it is clear that no human being has ever lived that long, and perhaps there is some numerological meaning to these numbers rather than literal history.
7 after he became the father of enosh, seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.
10 after he became the father of kenan, enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.
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Crazyguy
There maybe some truth to your idea of numbers meaning something in the Bible. The number 40 has connections to the Sumerian god Enki. The Adam story is also Sumerian in its origins. If there is a connection it's probably something connected to Sumeria or Babylon over Egypt.
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Which Religions Forbid Outside Research?
by AnonVet inmy definition of a cult is just this:if you are not allowed to research outside of your religion's published sources, you are in a cult.what other religions (cults) are there that absolutely forbid outside research on threat of punishment / shunning?
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Crazyguy
Mormons, Scientology.
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Genesis Lifetimes and Numerology
by schnell inout of morbid curiosity, i would like to here reduce the digits of the lifetimes stated in genesis chapter 5. it is clear that no human being has ever lived that long, and perhaps there is some numerological meaning to these numbers rather than literal history.
7 after he became the father of enosh, seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.
10 after he became the father of kenan, enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.
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Crazyguy
I'm with Barold Bonds , I want what your smoking!
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Cyprus JW's Military Service
by snare&racket ini work with a nurse who served for 2 years in the army of cyprus as is compulsory in that country.
i happened to ask about jw's and their consequential punishment for not doing it.
he laughed and stated that since 2009 they have to do it and that he personally knew several that 'served.
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Crazyguy
We need to do some digging on this subject because thier still making a big deal about the ones in South Korea that go to prison
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Why the need for 144000 imperfect humans to Rule with Christ Jesus for 1000 years ? Is he incapable of ruling by himself ?
by smiddy indoes this make any sense whatsoever ?
isnt jesus christ the king ?why the need for 144000 king priests to help him ?.
is he not up for the job?
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Crazyguy
Iown mylife, it's my understanding that your not to far off but your using the wrong word. The one that has a different meaning is the word "reigning " this word can mean other things then ruling like a government or king.
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Why the need for 144000 imperfect humans to Rule with Christ Jesus for 1000 years ? Is he incapable of ruling by himself ?
by smiddy indoes this make any sense whatsoever ?
isnt jesus christ the king ?why the need for 144000 king priests to help him ?.
is he not up for the job?
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Crazyguy
The words Reigning and Ruling has two different meanings. The priests in the Old Testament writings didn't have rulership authority over the people the same way as the king. Thier is no scripture in the New Testament in the original Greek that implies the followers of Christ would be rulers.
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Watchtower No.3 2017 - The Four Horesmen
by pale.emperor inthis is the first time i've read through a watchtower magazine in about a year.
although i've been our only 8 months it really git me how crazy i must have sounded when i was a jw talking to non jws.. while other bible based religions talk about the 4 horsemen and back up their theories with other scriptures or historical evidence, the watchtower have taken so such steps.
1914 is thrown in there as if it's universally agreed that jesus started ruling since then.. even when i was a jw i never really understood why, if the pale horse represents jesus, why is he first?
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Crazyguy
A lot of christians don't believe Jesus is one of the horseman. I think the 4 horseman may have something todo with the sun god Helios because he had a four horse chariot. Also in the book of Enoch thier was 4 main good angels that were talked about, maybe the writer joined the two ideas together. I'm sure thier maybe a Greek, Egyptian or Ugaritic story about something like this and the writer took from that source material. It's amazing how many other stories in the Bible came about this way.
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Why the need for 144000 imperfect humans to Rule with Christ Jesus for 1000 years ? Is he incapable of ruling by himself ?
by smiddy indoes this make any sense whatsoever ?
isnt jesus christ the king ?why the need for 144000 king priests to help him ?.
is he not up for the job?
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Crazyguy
Drearyweather, let me be clear the scriptures in the original Greek do not say they will be kings. Yep not kings, the King James Bible and the JW Bible has it wrong. Not only the scriptures in Revelations but all other scriptures in the New Testament that make it seem like they are kings.
And as for reigning as priests with Jesus, the kingdom of god according to Revelations comes down to earth so the throne he sits on could be on earth. But this again is just arguing semantics.
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Why the need for 144000 imperfect humans to Rule with Christ Jesus for 1000 years ? Is he incapable of ruling by himself ?
by smiddy indoes this make any sense whatsoever ?
isnt jesus christ the king ?why the need for 144000 king priests to help him ?.
is he not up for the job?
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Crazyguy
The actual Greek scriptures at Revelations chapter 5:9-10 doesn't actually say they'll be kings, neither does any scripture in the New Testament. They are to reign as priests on the earth not rule over it. That what these scriptures actually say in Greek. This was in reference to I believe the scripture in Deuteronomy where is says " they will be a kingdom of priests ".