I don’t know the answer to that but I do believe it is addressed in the Summa Theologica, why one God rather than many, is the logical conclusion, if that is any help.
slimboyfat
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How do Witnesses reconcile Isaiah 43:10 with John 1:1
by Vanderhoven7 insomething does not compute.
you are my witnesses,”declares jehovah, yes, my servant whom i have chosen, so that you may know and have faith in me and understand that i am the same one.before me no god was formed, and after me there has been none.
isaiah 43:10. in the beginning was the word, and the word was with god and the word was god.
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How do Witnesses reconcile Isaiah 43:10 with John 1:1
by Vanderhoven7 insomething does not compute.
you are my witnesses,”declares jehovah, yes, my servant whom i have chosen, so that you may know and have faith in me and understand that i am the same one.before me no god was formed, and after me there has been none.
isaiah 43:10. in the beginning was the word, and the word was with god and the word was god.
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slimboyfat
God didn’t come into existence, he just exists, that’s what makes him God. Does that sound impossible? The alternative is that there is an infinite regress of causes, which seems even less plausible. We can’t comprehend a being without beginning and cause because we exist in space and time, whereas God transcends all that.
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How do Witnesses reconcile Isaiah 43:10 with John 1:1
by Vanderhoven7 insomething does not compute.
you are my witnesses,”declares jehovah, yes, my servant whom i have chosen, so that you may know and have faith in me and understand that i am the same one.before me no god was formed, and after me there has been none.
isaiah 43:10. in the beginning was the word, and the word was with god and the word was god.
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slimboyfat
Reading both in context they seem to be saying:
Isaiah: none of the gods of the surrounding nations are real. They can’t do anything. They didn’t exist before Jehovah and they won’t exist in the future either. They will never exist and will never be able to do anything for the people who put their trust in them.
John: God’s Son (his Word) was with him in the beginning when he created the world. God created everything through his Son who is the only direct creation of the Father. God’s Son became flash when he came to earth as Jesus Christ. Jesus represented his Father perfectly by doing the things that pleased him and he declared that his Father is the only true God.
These two texts complement each other in their statements that Jehovah is the only true God and that he sent forth his only begotten Son.
On the meaning of John 1:1 see King and Messiah as Son of God: Divine, Human and Angelic Figures in Biblical and Related Literature (2008) by John J. Collins and Adela Yarbro Collins.
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Missing Monthly Broadcast - May 2015
by Listener inyoutuber millstone research has done a video on the fact that the may 2015 monthly broadcast is no longer on jw org.. https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/categories/studiomonthlyprograms.
the broadcast was presented by lett who mentions he had the backing of the other gb members regarding his comments.. the broadcast is basically about soliciting jws for funds as well as other 'valuable things' for the organisation.
this is the one where he claims that the money flowing out was more than the money flowing in.
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slimboyfat
Interesting, and perhaps an example of the Streisand effect that their taking down the video draws even more attention to it.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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slimboyfat
Dr Sohom Das is the psychiatrist’s name. You’d think the charge of being a narcissistic psychopath is potentially defamatory, yet curiously LE didn’t send any legal threats to Dr Das. 🤔
There is definitely a level of cunning involved in him getting people to pay his way for years and covering his tracks as to how he treats people including his own family. Superficial charm is one phrase I think the psychiatrist used. I have seen programs about Ted Bundy - I’m sure other have - about how charming he could be to strangers, and even in prison when people knew his past. Some psychopaths are highly intelligent, but not all it seems. As Simon says, claiming poverty when it comes his child’s haircut, then flaunting frivolous purchases for himself scarcely indicates much intelligence.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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slimboyfat
Bully Tibor into taking a pay cut would probably be his first move.
The drop in patrons must be really frustrating for him and he’s probably taking his frustration out on others. No doubt he tells Dijana this is all her fault for blowing the whistle on him every chance he gets, and uses it as his excuse for not giving money for the kids.
In some ways the level of drop in patrons probably falls excruciatingly somewhere in the middle between “I can build it up again from here” and “this is just not worth it any more”. So he’ll probably struggle on for a long while yet before giving up.
I wonder what he says to his patrons during his livestreams. Do you remember the kind of teacher in school who was inclined to give the class a lecture about the other pupils who didn’t turn up. Which was totally self defeating because they were punishing the ones that did turn up by lecturing them about the ones that weren’t there. I can imagine he probably does something similar to his remaining patrons, complaining about all the patrons that have left him. He can’t help being a victim even when he knows it turns people off.
That’s if he bothers talking to his patrons at all. I see his latest update is about him missing yet another video appointment with his financial backers. How stupid have you got to be to still be sending LE your money at this point?
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Review of Wallace's Grammar
by Wonderment inreview 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 in2022-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 inhave 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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slimboyfat
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 inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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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.