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  Review of Wallace's Grammar

  by Wonderment in

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  review of daniel b. wallace’s greek grammar.

  daniel b[aird] wallace is professor of new testament, and author of greek grammar beyond the basics, a work first published by zondervan corporation in 1996. his work has since become a standard work in the intermediate koine greek field and has been translated into half a dozen languages.

  it is said two-thirds of bible colleges today that teach the subject use the textbook.

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  slimboyfat

  Thanks for the notes, especially useful, because it’s intelligible even me as someone who cannot read biblical Greek.

  Not related to this book, but Wallace also stirred some controversy a few years ago when, during a debate with Bart Ehrman, Wallace claimed he knew of the existence of a fragment of the New Testament dating from the first century that would soon be published. It turned out that his claims for the fragment did not materialise, causing both disappointment from some and also drawing criticism.
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  2022-November-Elders Manual--S-147 Announcements!

  by Atlantis in

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  2022-november elders manual.

  2022-s-147 announcements and reminders2022-jwpub files of the above.

  https://www.filemail.com/d/mnpzkotbirxqqgo or.

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  slimboyfat

  Thanks, Atlantis

  Does anyone have any comments on what the revamp of the jw website means or involves?
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  Is the tide turning against covid vaccines?

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. current

  have you seen this video about the covid vaccines?

  have you got any views on the information?

  i find it worrying at least.

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  Earnest there is no doubt the virus causes heart attacks and strokes, in rare cases even among young people. And it seems entirely plausible that some young people who have died from the virus would not have died if they had the vaccine.

  The complicating factor is that vaccines also cause some heart attacks and strokes.

  So the key question would seem to be, for young healthy people in particular: is getting a vaccine more likely to prevent you from getting a heart attack or stroke from the virus, or is it more likely to give you a heart attack or stroke as an adverse effect of the vaccine?

  Because we hear stories about young people who died from the virus and we also hear stories about young people who died from the vaccine. What we need is good reliable data.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Yeah really not much chance of him thinking of other people rather than himself. In fact, he will probably be furious with her for ‘wasting his time’. He didn’t target Andrew Gold when Gold exposed him, but knowing Lloyd, he may view this YouTuber as an easier target for his bullying.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  slimboyfat

  Well done Wally. 👍

  I guess LE thinks there’s nothing wrong with him taking advantage of the naïveté of small content creators to muscle his way onto new channels. But even if he believes he deserves second chance, or whatever, the honourable thing would be for him to be open about his issues with any potential collaborator and allow them to make an informed decision. Otherwise he’s just wasting people’s time.
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  slimboyfat

  Judging by his Amazon page he has clearly sold a large number of books and, even allowing for the probability that he has worked hard to remove negative reviews, he has a lot of positive reviews from readers. The only XJW books with more reviews (he has 403 reviews), as far as I can tell, are Crisis of Conscience by Raymond Franz (692) and Leaving the Witness by Amber Scorah. (483) That’s not bad going. I would call that success, even if there is no accounting for taste on the part of his readership.

  As for length, for example try telling Robert Caro how long the typical biography should be and he’ll triple it for you, and them some, and his readers love it. I’m not comparing LE’s work to Robert Caro by the way! I’m just saying I don’t believe in set lengths for genres.
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  Who is GOD Favouring in this Time of the End ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  jehovah`s witnesses , seventh day adventists , church of jesus christ of the latter day saints.. these 3 are probably the more influenthal in the last 200 or so years ago.. if membership is a sign of god`s blessing on who he favours then @ the year 2021.. jehovah`s witnesses membership 8.5 million.

  church of jesus christ of latter day saint`s membership.16.8 million.

  seventh day adventist`s membership.21 million.

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  The Mormons notoriously inflate their numbers. Scholars assessing dozens of census results concluded there are 8.6 million who self identify as Mormons compared with 17.5 million who self identify as Jehovah’s Witnesses, making Jehovah’s Witnesses more than twice as numerous as Mormons. In addition Mormons are far more geographically concentrated than JWs in a few regions such as Utah, South America, and certain pacific islands. (The same study found that there are 26.8 million who self identify as Adventists worldwide.)

  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13644-020-00408-z
  
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  New method to absolutely date Fall of Jerusalem.

  by waton in

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  for what it is worth to those interested.

  1914.. tel-aviv university.

  "biblical military campaigns reconstructed using geomagnetic field data.

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  It’s perfectly reasonable for them to use 586 BCE as the anchor date, because from their perspective it is a verifiable and reliable date to start from. I guess the destruction of a city is far easier to identify by archaeological means than the return of Jews a generation later.

  What you can’t do is use the 586 BCE date as the base date for the method and then turn around and say the 586 BCE is supported by the method, because that’s like trying to hold up the branch your sitting on. (If I’ve understood what the article says) I don’t think they are claiming the method does support 586 BCE, because that’s a peculiar JW interest anyway, they would have no interest in doing so.
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  New method to absolutely date Fall of Jerusalem.

  by waton in

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  for what it is worth to those interested.

  1914.. tel-aviv university.

  "biblical military campaigns reconstructed using geomagnetic field data.

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  It seems that the study used 586 BCE for the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem as the base date to calibrate their method and measure other dates in relation to it. If so, this method is not used to determine the 586 BCE date, rather it assumes it.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  slimboyfat

  I tried to watch it but the cringe is too strong