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Israel children of Hittites?
by peacefulpete indoes ezekiel understand israel to be a people foreign to caanan?
or does he not see them as indigenous and related to the other nations.
ezk 16:3 and say, thus saith the lord god unto jerusalem; thy birth and thy nativity [is] of the land of caanan; thy father [was] an amorite, and thy mother an hittite.
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Jannes and Jambres: Hyksos Pharaohs of the Fifteenth Dynasty?
by Leolaia inin 2 timothy 3:8, we encounter an enigmatic verse: "men like this defy the truth just as jannes and jambres defied moses.
" these names do not occur in the ot but they are widely attested in post-exilic jewish tradition as the magicians who competed against moses in performing miraculous signs and wonders.
according to the book of jannes and jambres, the two magicians were summoned by pharaoh separately:.
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2034 NEW DATE ?
by midwest inwent to meeting yesterday with wife , the talk was about the 120 year of moses & 1914 = 2034 as the end.
are they doing it again?
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Another hole in the JW's version of inherited sin
by logansrun inthe wt has often alluded that there is a genetic defect in humankind ever since adam and eve ate of the "forbidden fruit.
" we've all heard the "dent in a pan = dent in the cakes" illustration countless times over by the society and, for that matter, by a number of fundamentalist christians.
but, there is an enormous problem with this line of reasoning.
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thoughts...
by dustin_adam inplease note!
this is more of a philosophical question, and i am posting it merely to get feedback on what i like to term doctrinal circular logic (ie.
the bible is true because the bible says it true) i have tried to remove my own conclusions that i made from this, so if they shine through somewhere, i apologize.
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More questions
by yxl1 ini read somewhere that in 324, constantine decided that literal christianity was to be the offical religion of the roman empire.
could anyone point me to an author or book that describes how and why this happened.
also, does anyone have any information on how the current 66 bible books were chosen over the many books that were discarded.. thanks.
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Who is running the Watchtower Society?
by richard in.
since the watchtower society has been reorganized and split up in all these (sub)corporations, i wonder where the real power is located.
my guess would be the wtbts of pennsylvania, inc. other ideas?
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Greatest tribulation upon Judaism?
by peacefulpete infor jws and other fundementalists the destruction of jerusalem in 70ce is a unquestionably the fullfillment of the words in mark 13.19. however to see the city's leveling as the " tribulation such as has not occurred since the world's beginning until now" as referring to death numbers we must surmise the death toll to have been horrific indeed!
josephus is of course oft quoted for the numbers.
according to him 97,000 were taken prisoner while 1,100,000 were killed.
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Who has despised the day of small things?
by Know_You inas the apostates increasingly gather courage, poking their vile heads out of their filthy spider-holes, slavering like the mad creatures that they are, as they shake their puny fists at the lord of all creation, jehovah's people may may become downhearted, even despondent.
many, we hear, are slowing down or even becoming inactive.
others have been so bold as to have risen up to question the slave as it faithfully dispenses food in due season.
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un resolution to ban religion
by free will inwhen i read this at first and then looked at the web site.
i thought oh no, what have i done.
but now, i'm thinking it was just a matter of time before someone attempted the unachievable.