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life of a 4th century nun
by peacefulpete inever wonder what is was like to be a 4th century christian initiated into the real mysteries of christianity?
here is a work by a devout nun who chronicled her experience.
notice the secret nature of the liturgy (section 47 xlvii) and the bizaar anastasis (cave) ritual where in the "mysteries" are revealed.
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Apocalypse of Abraham/Revelation comparison
by peacefulpete inabraham!
9. and he said to me, "abraham!
38. and i answered and said, "0 eternal mighty one!
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Quoting Targums
by peacefulpete init has often been discussed here how the nt often selectively quotes ot passages as they appeared in the lxx rather than the hebrew to tease out meaning that was not intended by the authors.
eph 4:8 appears to be an example of similar selective extraction but in this case from aramaic targums.
the quote is from ps 68:18. the hebrew and lxx read that god "receives gifts from men" while the targums (aramaic paraphrases of ot) and peshitta read god "gives gifts to men", only this latter wording supports the argument being made by the author of ephesisans.
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Patripassianists
by peacefulpete ini've learned a great deal in the last few weeks about texual variants and what they meant to those who composed and read them.
not suprisingly the proto-orthodox (p/o) scribes of the 2nd and 3rd century were responsible for the majority of these deliberate and incidental varients.
by comparing the earliest manuscript witnesses we can begin to see patterns that reveal intent (or at least tendency).
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Use of Literary motif in Acts
by peacefulpete in[it is] hard for thee to kick against goads.
'it is hard to kick against the pricks;' (???????
" (my translation) .
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Old Calender and booklet pictures requested
by peacefulpete ini used to have a very extensive collection of the wt's calenders and booklets from the 30's and 40's.
dark colored pictures with blood everywhere, horns on the priests, fat cat world leaders being mowed down by the angel of death and little golumesque devils with bloodshot eyes.
i burned them all last year.
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cult characteristics
by peacefulpete ina recent post on another thread quoted the wt as saying that outside the organization only "chaos and destruction await" really reminded me of some of the great material at tha aff website.
i'm doing this with web tv today so i can't simply copy the page only the text, but read this and if it is interesting to you go to the american family foundation web site and discover many resources for cult identification and recovery.
study thought reform .
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pray thru the nose
by peacefulpete injust for fun, this is an excerpt from josephus,.
antiquities 8.2.5 (93-94 ce).
now the sagacity and wisdom which god had bestowed on solomon was so.
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poll of beliefs
by peacefulpete intruly disheatening results of a recent fox news poll.
it seems america is being left behind the developed world in areas of critical thinking.
new god survey data .
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Mates Joined at the Hip?
by peacefulpete innot according to the zend-avesta, the ancient persian scriptures.
in this legend, which paralleles the bible genesis story on many point ssuch as the snake temptation, 6 days of creating followed by rest holy fruit,etc, the god ahuramazda creats the first pair joined at the back.
he then separates them and commands them to be pure in thoughts,speech and actions.