OldSoul
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The reason I arrived, and why I'm still here...
by OldSoul inthanks to lilycurly, i don't think i will be able to even nominally remain a witness for much longer.
the whole "fading" thing goes against the grain anyway.. i arrived here, as my first venture into ex-jw land, as a lurker.
within a few hours, i spotted two people i knew whoto my surprisehad not yet become ex-ex-jws but were still posting here.
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defd, three sincere questions
by OldSoul indefd,.
on page 146 of what does the bible really teach?, the opening sentence of paragraph 6 purports to represent one of the six criteria for determining the true religion.
it reads: "god's servants base their teachings on the bible.".
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Scholar: Zechariah 12:10
by OldSoul inscholar,.
please explain the meaning of the original hebrew in this text:(zechariah 12:10).
and i will pour upon the house of david, and upon the inhabitants of jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
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Daniel 4:10-17
by OldSoul inthe meaning of daniel 4:10-17 is found in daniel 4:20-27. i am going to place the interpretation daniel gives for each element beside the interpretation given by the christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses.. i invite any witness to explain why the interpetation given in the bible is open to re-interpretation of a later fulfillment that does not correspond, on a single element, with the orginal interpretation.. .
from daniel 4:20-27. daniel's interpretation.
the tree that you beheld.... it is you o, king.
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If I was born in 1914...
by OldSoul inif i was born on my real birth day, in the year 1914...i'd be 91 today!
yipeee!
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Welcome Spamos and hubby!!!!
by OldSoul ini don't know your hubby's forum name, so i can't welcome him personally.
enjoy the experience of exchanging ideas freely.
give each other a big hug from me!
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WELCOME GTJ !!!!
by OldSoul ineveryone, please join in welcoming gtj to the fray!.
it is okay to be yourself, no one here bites.
and there are others who probably would if you asked nicely.. oldsoul
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Can someone check on lonelysheep in Real Life?
by OldSoul inlonelysheep,.
i don't ordinarily do anything like this but you have me very worried.
urgency makes people suspect the worst sometimes, and i don't want my abiding by rules to cause you harm.
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Those who saw 1914...
by OldSoul inlet's do a little exercise:.
if the generation that saw 1914 will not die before armageddon, as specifically stated by the prophet class (the faithful and discreet slave, per current understanding), how many are left?.
i'll be generous and say that a nine year old could grasp the sharp 1914 changes jws cleave to...well, cleave to religiously, i suppose.. according to the population division of the department of economic and social affairs of the united nations secretariat, world population prospects: the 2004 revision, accessed online at esa.un.org/unpp, sept. 1, 2005, there are about 265,000 persons age 100 or older (that is, who were alive in 1905) in 2005. in other words, world-wide there are fewer from the "generation" that saw 1914 than many city populations in the u.s. alone.. now, suppose for the sake of ludicrous forebearance, we say that the prophet class is allowed a mulligan (a concept flatly disallowed by deuteronomy 18:20-22 and 1 john 4:1).
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Scholar, does 1 John 4:1 apply to you?
by OldSoul inscholar,.
given that you believe 1 john 4:1 to be an instruction related to deuteronomy 18:20-22, i am interested to know whether 1 john 4:1 applies to everyone, including you.. was john recommending that only 1st century christians should test expressions that claim to be from an authoritative source?
or should that test be applied by everyone to any so-called authoritative expressions?.