peacefulpete
JoinedTopics Started by peacefulpete
-
45
virgin birth in Matt and Luke?
by peacefulpete inrobert price (incredible shrinking son of man) has alerted me to an interesting possibility that matt and luke (that is, the original authors) may not have intended that jesus had a miraculous conception.
mark never gives any hint that he was aware of any birth tradition surrounding his jesus, matt and luke have generally been considered the first to incorporate this element into the legend.
however price and jane schaberg (baba pg.116) have reexamined the texts and come to a different conclusion.
-
5
bapt cave
by peacefulpete inarchaeologists claim to have found john the baptist's cave
if you read the article and others available on the web it becomes clear that the evidence is sorrowfully weak.
the whole assumption rests upon the interpretation of some crude etchings on the wall dating to 500 years after the supposed time of jtb.
-
15
whose breast?
by peacefulpete innote the present version of the betrayal revelation scene in john:.
21 when jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and.
and when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to judas.
-
6
John 3:13
by peacefulpete inon other threads it has been shown that jewish thought of the centuries immediately before and during the forming of the christian sect included a belief in a soul that survived death to ascend to heaven or paradise if deserving, gehenna if wicked.
some retained the idea of a heavenly hades as a holding location with many chambers suitable to the person put there (like in the rich man and lazarus story) re: re: why do the jw's not believe in hell?
often john 3:13 ?no one has ascended to heaven except he who descended from heaven, the son of man.?
-
8
Two in bed
by peacefulpete ina recent thread asked about the rapture teaching and i got to thinking about luke 17:34,35 and matt 24:40,41. it is generally agreed this was sourced from q. notice that luke and matt place the section including, "two women will be grinding at the hand mill one will be taken along the other left" in completely different settings.
matt slips it in the mini-apocalypse from mark 13 while luke separates it to another discussion and setting.
matt not only surrounds but interupts the q section (including lightning and vultures and noah reference) with markan material (matt 24.29-35).. .
-
27
are great crowd jehovah's witnesses?
by peacefulpete in"all who have taken their stand on the side of jehovah must abide in his organization under christ, if they would live.
there is no exception to this rule...the name "jehovah's witnesses" applies specifically to god's annointed ones who have been taken out of the world and made witnesses for jehovah, and these alone bear the new name.
the official organization of jehovah on earth consists of his annointed remnant, and the jonadabs who walk with the annointed are to be taught but not be leaders.
-
9
time warp
by peacefulpete inok just a short comment about an simple scribal goof.
nehemiah 1:1 says that in the ninth month of the 20th year of artexerxes nehemiah learns about that the temple was not built after 110 years or so after the persians had sent colonizers nehemiah 2:1 says that in the first month of the same 20th year (8 months earlier!
) he speaks to the king about this matter.
-
5
roman influence on Seder meals
by peacefulpete inok this is not really of any importance but i wanted to post something.
leolaia has elsewhere posted interesting and revealing background to the christian eucharist meal and it's mix of jewish seder meals with persian and roman symbolism and ritual.
i just was reading from the jewish encyclopedia that explained that the tradition of reclining to eat the meal was adopted from roman sacred banquets.
-
6
need quote help please
by peacefulpete incould someone please quote or scan the august 2002 km insert that deals with jw relatives of disfellowshipped persons and the consequences of eating or socializing with them?
we both were gone by then and we were told that the km contained new and harsher direction.
thanks in advance.
-
6
Help please....advice needed
by peacefulpete inplease click link as i posted this in two places deliberately.
we need solid advice from former elders moderators please don't erase one.