Piercingtheveil81
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Hades and Tartarus in the NT. Pagan influences?
by Piercingtheveil81 inlast night i was watching a program about greek mythology when the subject of hades and tartarus came up, hades referring to the greek god of death and tartarus referring to the place of the dead or what could be called hell.
i began to wonder why would the bible writers use such words if they were trying to avoid paganism and convey different ideas.
if hell were not a real place as witnesses say why would peter use tartarus, a word clearly known to be a place and not a condition of the dead.
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Governing Body Talks @ Convention
by nbernat inwell the convention was extremely long and boring but i decided to take specific notes on brother morris's talks for discussion here on jwd (and i was also able to get a few extra copies of the creation dvd so if anyone wants one, pm me).. overall, the brother is not a great orator and sometimes awkwardly raises his voice.
i am aware that some of the friends were a little disappointed to say the least that we did not get a more "famous" gb brother at the first international convention, but he speaks for the gb, so same difference.. it felt like most of his talks were around a.
) countering criticism about jws and b.
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EX-JW meetup in Los angeles
by cyberjesus inguys, tomorrow 1/31/10 we have a meet up at 2pm, everybody is welcome.
i have attended 3 and i always enjoy them so much.. .
social room at light & life church.
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1John 5:20
by PSacramento inthis was brought up in the phillipians thread by johnathan dough (sp?
), he mentions how in 1john 5:20 jesus is caled god.. .
now, in the niv it goes like this:.
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Our Paradise Lost
by MidwichCuckoo indon't know if i'm posting this on correct forum, but has anyone else received an email enititled 'watchtower!
' - i have zero idea how they obtained my email address, as i've only subscribed to ex-jw sites (even then, my email address would only be available to admin?
)- this and one other - (and this appears to be pro, indeed casting aspersions on 'conference call')?.
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Is there anyone here from San Diego or the surrounding areas?
by Piercingtheveil81 inis there anyone here from san diego or the surrounding areas?
i'm from east county and da'd about a year ago.
i was just curious as to how many from san diego frequent this site.. pvt81.
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Cyrus the Great was the Jewish Messiah?
by sabastious inhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/history_of_ancient_israel_and_judah.
the biblical historythe hebrew bible contains "myths, legends and folktales, sagas, heroic epics, oral traditions, annals, biographies, narrative histories, novellae, belles lettres, proverbs and wisdom-sayings, poetry (including erotic poems ...), prophecy, apocalyptic, and much more ... the whole finally woven into a composite, highly complex literary fabric sometime in the hellenistic era.
"[2] although tradition ascribes them to times and authors contemporaneous with events, they were in fact written in many cases considerably after the times they describe and by authors with a clear religious and nationalist agenda, and it is therefore critical to treat them with circumspection.[3].
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Twas the night before Ramadan
by TweetieBird in"twas the night before ramadan" .
by mullah mohammed omar.
twas the night before ramadan, and all through the cave.
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Challenge #4 (INTELLECT) ~ to Greg Stafford / Jason BeDuhn / Serious JWs / Fred Coulter (CofG)
by 4examp inpersonality is expressed, demonstrated & manifested by: emotion, intellect, will.. challenge #4 ~ do you agree scripture proves the holy spirit can / does manifest intellect?.
1. entunkano (g1793,5x) = primarily to fall in with, meet with in order to converse, then to make petition, especially to make intercession, plead with a person.
- rom.8:27 ~ the spirit ... is pleading in accord with god for holy ones.