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Mark 6, missions of 12, sent out 2 by 2.
by kepler inthis past sunday i was in a church where the gospel reading and sermon was on the above chapter.
it was noted that jesus was acknowledged as a carpenter from nazareth.
his relatives or genealogy was enumerated in a manner that, shall we say, was distinct from the manner in matthew and luke.
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1 Kings 6:31, Insight from archeology, other translations and the good ole NWT
by kepler incall this a review of a recent article i noticed in the biblical archeological review, "the puzzling doorways of solomon's temple" by madeleine mumcuoglu and yosef garfinkel, bar july/august 2015, pp.
this is not something that i had been waiting with baited breath to find out about, but sometimes there is a serendipity effect when you are idly reading something over breakfast.. the authors, field archeologists working at the site khirbet qelyala in israel, based on evidence from their dig site, believe they have an explanation for a strange reference in 1 kings 6:31. essentially, according to many current translations,.
"the bible tells us that the doors of the inner shrine of solomon's temple had five mezuzot (singular mezuzah) [and] whatever they were the bible is not referring to the little parchment texts in a case on the doorposts of jewish houses that are called mezuzot.
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Is there an ancient Christian creed that says credo in scripture?
by kepler inconsider the nicene creed.
does it mention bible?
it does say what a christian in a universal church of the roman empire should believe though.. one day i visited a service at a fundamental church and i noticed that a video display interjected the belief in holy scriptures into what otherwise looked to me like the credo i had learned in my own church.. the notion of a credo does not necessarily stay unaltered, i admit.
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Been over this one before? By the voice behind him, John of Patmos directed to write...
by kepler insomeone in my family many years back was pursued very intensely by jws in her neighborhood to become one of the pack.
two or three jws would meet with her each week and they would discuss the bible, with which she was well versed, and also some of their supplementary commentary material of a high ratio of drag to lift.
she became more and more enthusiastic about the bible, but did notice significant discrepancies between the text and the study material.
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What significance did "Scriptures" have for Church historians 2nd-5th centuries?
by kepler ini started looking at this when i came across a reference to clement of alexandria in another thread.. my first scans seem to indicate that early christian historians spoke of scriptures much more than they quoted it, save for issues related to aryanism or not.. anyone done any digging in this area?.
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Offer in Mail: Deferred Costs for Subscription to Apocalyptic End Times Magazine
by kepler init's not the one that most people on this forum are thinking of.
and it was one that i had never heard of before now.
but it gave me pause to think.. maybe it was the result of.
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A Saturday Knock on the Door & the JWN Forum
by kepler inthis is, of course, a recurrent topic that's made possible whenever a kingdom hall decides to march out on your neighborhood and street.. today it happened again in my neighborhood as a drum up for the memorial observance scheduled for monday the 14th of april.. why christ's passion and death should be observed on a monday of holy week i failed to ask this morning.
perhaps someone else might like to volunteer, but it seemed just another reason to be sceptical about the whole thing, though hardly ranking with changing ancient chronologies to get jerusalem's temple destruction 2520 years before 1914.. anyway two gentlemen in white shirts and ties greeted me politely enough at my door and presented me with a flyer about an event which they described as momentous.
they asked me if i had ever intended one and i assented.
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Sherlock Holmes predicted WWII - I saw it in a film
by kepler init was either "hound of the baskervilles" or "adventures of sherlock holmes" where sherlock himself, played by basil rathbone, after wrapping up the case with dr. watson and friends turned to the audience in the theater and urged them to fight on against the threat that menaced europe, the empire and the blessed isles alluding to hitler and mussolini.. since sherlock holmes lived in victorian times this must have been a revelation from god.. no doubt about it.
there is no other way that this could have happened.
and sherlock holmes wrote the story himself.. we studied sherlock holmes short stories attributed to arthur conan doyle in english class.
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19 November 1863 - 150 Years Ago Today - A Different Point of View
by kepler infrom the standpoint of funeral orations, my school's literature department had to wait nearly 2500 years for the next great oration after that of pericles.
it's a short speech that has generated many more words of philosophical interpretation, even re-molded a country that was being torn apart.
never mind that it is about someone's particular country.
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Caveat Lector: Jerome's of the Vulgate's Caution on Daniel
by kepler inrecently, started reading gibbon's decline and fall of the roman empire.
i discovered that the printed versions i had access to were abridged, but the entire book is available on line in pdf or more detailed forms.
one reason it is worth reading chapter by chapter is that abridements seem to convey different messages.