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  Colwell’s Rule must die!

  by Wonderment in

  1. watchtower
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  colwell, a trinitarian methodist, was apparently affected by various translators of his time and before, that were translating john 1:1 differently from the norm: "the word was god.

  " you had moffatt’s version saying "the word was divine" (1922); a french bible, "a divine being" (1928); belsham, "a god" (1808); benjamin wilson: "a god" (1864); robert young: "a god" in his commentary of 1985. colwell likely knew that various french and german bibles were being published challenging the traditional rendering "god" of john 1:1 as well.. so he set out to prove them wrong.

  he began by formulating a "rule" regarding predicate nouns and the greek article, whether they occurred after or before the verb.

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  After many years of research I’ve concluded that jesus was a new god and then was exalted to high god absorbing the powers and likeness of his father. Many years later the trinity idea was introduced to Christianity. This was not uncommon for many pantheons of gods had this happen.

  In Babylon Marduk defeats Tiamat and for this he is given highest god status even absorbing 50 other gods and thier powers.

  Baal basically does the same by taking over for El not replacing him but becomes more revered because of his fertility powers.

  Osiris does something similar and Horus is given the powers and takes over for RA after his mother tricks RA into telling her his devine name.
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  I went to a meeting at my old congregation last weekend

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it’s a three for one deal.

  about 10 years ago they merged 3 struggling rural congregations into one in the largest town.

  at the time there were about 75 publishers.

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  I love to read about the decline, I remember reading just a couple years ago about a CO making the comment here in my area that they’re loosing 6 people per circuit assembly and back then they were having two of those per year per circuit. So that’s 12 people per circuit per year. Nice healthy decline.

  Not sure if that the case all over or just my area but it’s been calculated that the cults loosing based on their own numbers 1 million members per decade worldwide. Now if those numbers stay that way or go up and those coming in go down which we know they have their in trouble, and I like that!
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  Material such as the film at the end of this years convention confirms that I was right to take my kids out the religion

  by jambon1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it’s quite affirming to see the horrific material that they’re serving up at the convention this year.

  aside from blatant homophobia, the scenes at the end of the convention that are discussed on another thread stoop to new levels of fear mongering.

  it seems to occur to nobody inside the organisation that this kind of material could trigger fear, deprsssion, anxiety, stress.

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  Little do they know jesus is about to shoot them.
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  "World conditions have never been as bad as they are now"

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i went to a funeral yesterday and ran into a jdub.

  of course, he approached me and it didn't take more than a minute into the conversation for him to get into the jdub gloom and doom mode.

  he said that world conditions have never been as bad as they are now.. i looked straight into his eyes and said, "i think that world conditions were a lot worse during world war two.".

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  I like to bring up the Black Plague Of Europe and mention how things were much better then.
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  Two May 19th articles about Lauren Stuart who killed her husband & two children-left a video & suicide note blaming sexual abuse & exclusion

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5748191/woman-blamed-sexual-abuse-ostracism-jehovahs-witness-reasons-killing-suicide.html.

  revealed: ex-jehovah's witness turned model, 45, left a video and suicide note blaming childhood sex abuse and exclusion from her religion for killing her husband and children.

  lauren stuart of keego harbor, michigan had been researching suicide methods on youtube and videos on how to use a glock for weeks .

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  The sister claimed that she the killer had spoken out against the religion , apostasy, so maybe she did say or make claims against the cult about her abuse.
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  Did You Care About The Royal Wedding?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don’t get it.

  who really cares?

  in the usa, it’s such a huge newsworthy event.

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  I did some research on the woman and she seems very nice and into humanitarian causes. She’s a lot like his mother and that’s a good thing.
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  Is there evidence about Jaracz?

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  read some reply's about jaracz being a child abuser.. is there any evidence about it?.

  g..

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  I’ve heard story about another guy but not so much about Jaracz, but anything is possible when people think their better then everyone else and are exalted kings because they had a feeling one day. Sound like several possible mental problems to me.
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  The First Flood Story - How Much Do You Know About It?

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you may have heard that before the genesis document (of the bible) was written there was a flood story circulating in west asia.. if your short of time, here's a 5 minute video by irving finkel discussing a flood story document written in cuneiform.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbfr-9us31k.

  of course, the christian argument may be that the bible had the original (truthful) version and the cuneiform story came later.

  but that's so difficult to prove.

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  Experts in the field claim that the writings found in Sumer were much older then anything that’s ever been written in the Bible. Another think to consider is if Moses was alive around 1500 BCE then what language did he write his writings in because the form of Hebrew used wasn’t around yet. Also did Moses travel to Sumer because most of the stories found in Genesis were found there but none mention a god Jehovah.

  Its also interesting that Moses was born then put into a basket and floated down a river yet this had already been done by Sargon’s mother and another woman in India with her son.
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  Two May 19th articles about Lauren Stuart who killed her husband & two children-left a video & suicide note blaming sexual abuse & exclusion

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5748191/woman-blamed-sexual-abuse-ostracism-jehovahs-witness-reasons-killing-suicide.html.

  revealed: ex-jehovah's witness turned model, 45, left a video and suicide note blaming childhood sex abuse and exclusion from her religion for killing her husband and children.

  lauren stuart of keego harbor, michigan had been researching suicide methods on youtube and videos on how to use a glock for weeks .

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  Unfortunately this action by her and the note she left will just be used by the JWs as proof that you shouldn’t leave their cult. Nothing in the details about her sexual abuse or anything that could show that their teachings and actions could have drove her to this end.
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  Did You Care About The Royal Wedding?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don’t get it.

  who really cares?

  in the usa, it’s such a huge newsworthy event.

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  What wedding? Where?