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  which Translation Now?

  by enoughisenough in

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  for those of you who still respect the bible, which translation/s are you using now?

  why?.

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  slimboyfat

  What does “non JW answers only” mean?

  The fullest explanation of the removal of the divine name from the New Testament is in George Howard’s article that you can read here in full.

  http://areopage.net/howard.pdf
  

  Also see the explanations in the books by Frank Shaw and David Trobisch

  Shaw, F. The earliest non-mystical Jewish use of Iao. Contributions to biblical exegesis and theology, 70. Peeters, 2014.

  Trobisch, David. The first edition of the New Testament. Oxford University Press, 2000.

  Good post Wonderment 👍
  
  
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  Ministry in John 3:16

  by JW Answers in

  1. watchtower
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  a lot of false teaching darkens our doors today, especially with watchtower teachings, calvinism and lordship salvation.. latest video below explores the verse john 3:16 and shows forth the truths which christ preached to nicodemus.

  the jws also spread fear amongst their followers stating that if the leave the org, then jehovah will strike them down at armageddon.

  this video covers this same fear.. feel free to watch below..

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  slimboyfat

  Jesus said: with God, all things are possible.

  1 Tim 2:4 says it is the will of God that everyone will be saved. Who can thwart the will of God? Some will have a rockier road to redemption than others, but the ultimate destination is sure, because it is the will of God.
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  which Translation Now?

  by enoughisenough in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for those of you who still respect the bible, which translation/s are you using now?

  why?.

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  slimboyfat

  I think there’s evidence on both sides and it depends how you weigh the evidence. It’s a bit like the “did grandpa wear a hat?” question. There are photos of grandpa from the 1960s and he’s not wearing a hat in any of the photos, but unfortunately there are no photos of grandpa from the 1930s when he was a young man. Did grandpa wear a hat in the 1930s? Since there are no photos of grandpa wearing a hat you could say “there is no evidence” that he ever wore a hat. But we have plenty of photos of other young men in the 1930s and it seems that they routinely wore hats in that period. You can either dig your heels in and say there is no evidence grandpa ever wore a hat, or you can acknowledge that, while there are no photos of grandpa wearing a hat, men in the 1930s generally did wear hats, and there’s lots of evidence for that, and so it’s reasonable to draw the conclusion that it’s more likely than not that grandpa wore a hat in the 1930s, even if there are no actual photos of him ever wearing a hat.

  Similarly, there may not be any New Testament manuscripts with the divine name, but we do know that the divine name was used in Bible texts at the time when the New Testament was written. So it does seem reasonable to draw the conclusion that the New Testament authors would have followed contemporary practice and included the divine name in their texts.

  That’s just the starting point. Corroborating that conclusion I would argue that the large number of variants around instances of kyrios in the New Testament, plus the fact that a lot of passages make better sense with the divine name included, add support to the idea that the divine name was in the original. The best example of this is the frequent quotation of Psalm 110 in the NT that probably originally read, “Jehovah said to my Lord, sit at my right hand”, that later led to the confusing rendering when the divine name was removed: “The Lord said to my lord, sit at my right hand”.
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  Ministry in John 3:16

  by JW Answers in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a lot of false teaching darkens our doors today, especially with watchtower teachings, calvinism and lordship salvation.. latest video below explores the verse john 3:16 and shows forth the truths which christ preached to nicodemus.

  the jws also spread fear amongst their followers stating that if the leave the org, then jehovah will strike them down at armageddon.

  this video covers this same fear.. feel free to watch below..

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  slimboyfat

  I think if we take scriptures like 1 Timothy 2:4 seriously then it says it is God’s will that everyone will be saved. That presumably includes Pharisees as everyone else.

  1 Tim 2 3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.
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  Ministry in John 3:16

  by JW Answers in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a lot of false teaching darkens our doors today, especially with watchtower teachings, calvinism and lordship salvation.. latest video below explores the verse john 3:16 and shows forth the truths which christ preached to nicodemus.

  the jws also spread fear amongst their followers stating that if the leave the org, then jehovah will strike them down at armageddon.

  this video covers this same fear.. feel free to watch below..

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  slimboyfat

  I believe it’s God’s plan that everyone will be saved because that’s what scripture says to me and is consistent with the superlative love and power I believe God has to bring about his will. Because 2 Peter says

  Jehovah is not slow concerning his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with you because he does not desire anyone to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance.

  So the question I would ask is: is Jehovah able to bring about his wishes? Scripture tells us God wants everyone to be saved. If that’s what Jehovah wants to happen then that is what is going to happen. What can prevent the will of God? He is being patient with everyone until everyone is ready for redemption. Every single person. No exceptions.
  
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  Is the tide turning against covid vaccines?

  by slimboyfat in

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  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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  slimboyfat

  They saw data that showed the drug was harmful but they passed the drug anyway and tens of thousands of people died as a result. It wasn’t about saving time so how can that be called a “shortcut”?

  In order to determine whether it is in their financial interests to promote dangerous drugs you can’t just deduct the fines in this one instance. How many times have they passed dangerous drugs and got away with it? How many times was the evidence less clear so that it was easier to fudge the outcomes?

  It can get very complicated for us, trying to make sense of claims from variously well qualified people who make opposite claims.

  But we don’t need to be scientists ourselves, we only need to have been observant over the past couple of years to notice the following:

  We were initially told the vaccines would stop us catching the virus. That turned out to be WRONG.

  We were told the vaccines would stop us transmitting the virus. That turned out to be WRONG.

  We were told that when everyone took the vaccines we would reach herd immunity. That turned out to be WRONG.

  It’s almost as if there are things about the vaccines that the authorities didn’t know about when they were coercing people to take them.

  You don’t need to be either a scientist or a conspiracy theorist to make the entirely reasonable deduction that authorities who have got so many things wrong about the vaccines so far, could also conceivably have got it wrong when they assured us the vaccines won’t have unforeseen and serious impacts on health.
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  Is the tide turning against covid vaccines?

  by slimboyfat in

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  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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  slimboyfat

  A critique of the sloppy methodology can be found here:

  The critique was written by someone who is not a heart doctor as is Dr Malhotra and it looks like an online magazine rather than a peer review journal as was the original article. We have entered a crazy world where “debunkers” are assumed never to be wrong themselves, whereas senior doctors and academics can be dismissed entirely if they disagree one iota with the current dogma.

  A central claim that Dr Malhotra didn’t rely on robust evidence is a bit cynical considering the drug companies are not sharing their data and outside researchers need to rely data wherever they can find it. Why are drug companies not sharing their research data?

  There are also serious questions about data collection of adverse affects since there seems to be no system in place. If they neglect to gather data on adverse effects, and refuse to share what data they do have, then we are getting an incomplete picture of the dangers. It’s entirely cyclical to obstruct and restrict data and then to criticise others for their data collection.

  Denmark and other countries are discontinuing the vaccine mandates because of the adverse effects. I wonder if the debunkers now go so far to discredit entire countries who stray from the official line. “Denmark debunked”, I’d like to see it.
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  Is the tide turning against covid vaccines?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. social
  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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  slimboyfat

  It wasn’t a matter of not waiting for the data, the data was already in. If somebody gives someone something they know will do more harm than good that is not a shortcut. And if tens of thousands of people die as a result I don’t call that a shortcut. I’d describe that as murder and it’s outrageous that no one went to jail, especially the person who wrote the email saying it was a “shame” about the adverse effect but they’d make money on it. I find it unnerving the lengths people will go to excuse the harmful effects of our economic system when it is killing people for the benefit of a few.

  Bear it mind this was just the time they got caught. How many times have they done this without getting caught?
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  Is the tide turning against covid vaccines?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. social
  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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  slimboyfat

  It wasn’t a “short cut” it was a deliberate decision to sell harmful drugs to make a profit. Why do you call that a short cut?
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  Is the tide turning against covid vaccines?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. social
  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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  slimboyfat

  I just read the conclusions, thanks Earnest, they sound measured. There may be a case for the vaccines for the elderly and some vulnerable groups, but for most of the population it is beginning to look like they have done more harm than good, unfortunately. This is particularly disastrous, if true, considering the vaccines were required for some people to keep their jobs. If it turns out that they cause serious long term effects for people who were at little risk from the virus in the first place, will people ever trust authorities on health matters again?

  Above all, I think we should learn from this that people should be given full information and allowed to make their own choices.