If you want to read writting on Josephus, I would recommed Loeb Classical Library which has parallel greek texts with english ones and you can decide on it on yourself.
Posts by kaik
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14Did Josephus believe in Jesus as The Christ?
by opusdei1972 inhere is the questioned josephus' text :.
now, there was about this time jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful worksa teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure.
he drew over to him both many of the jews, and many of the gentiles.
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Jehovah's Witnesses are the only people who don't practice war and who preach worldwide!
by EndofMysteries inthis is what somebody has been telling me, trying to convince me aside from anything one can say or cause reason for doubt, as the evidence that they are the true religion and true people of god.
they are convinced because while 'all other' christian and other religions support war, troops, etc, jw's don't and they are the only one's who carry god's name and preach.
nothing else matters.
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kaik
Of course JWs do not practice war, they believe that mighty Jesus and his legion will engage with humanity at the battle of Armageddon which will litter entire world with rotting human bodies serving as a food to the birds.
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Evolution and spirits
by Chris Tann inas of now iam making an unbiased examination of evolution.
however one thing keeps me hanging on to the belief of a supreme spirit being; the existence of spirits.
i have heard countless accounts of people who have experienced frightening encounters with evil forces.
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kaik
The mind is powerfull tool creating vidid imagination that many can claim as proof and truth. However, science needs to deal with facts and and system of verifications and confirmations. We still do not know everything what is happening in the universe, and deal with unknown phenomena; however, this is not a proof of supranatural events. Catholic countries are regularly engulfed with vision of Virgin Mary and have more sighting of it than any other religion on earth. Medzhugoria in former Yugoslavia is one of the example. Catholic Croats will insist that the sightings in the 1980's were real. I met Bosniak (muslims) and Serbs who disagreed. Spain, Italy, Portugal has more sighting of Virgin Mary than Protestant Saxony, England and Scandinavia. During forcefull catholization of Bohemia in 1648-1742 there was more sighting of Mary than it was during 200 years of Protestantism. Whatever became popular with the minds of the people, there will be always individuals believing that some phenomenas are real.
I have two or three unexplained experiences and I still not will insist that the spirits are real as they could be coincidence or result of imagination. When my biological father passed away, the night it happened, I dreamt to be with him in the car, me driving. Next thing I saw a skeleton with sickle and my father in the dream told me that she came for him. I woke up called home hundreds of miles away to find out that my dad passed the night. I could never explain this, but this does not proof anything that there is afterlife, Grim Reaper, spirits, or out of our dimension some messenger.
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Despicable crazy people
by jgnat inthere are some mental illnesses which come with the potential for extreme violence.
i'm not talking the sociopath here who kills without remorse, but those mentally ill people while in the throes of their delusions who are driven to kill.
the outcomes can be horrific.. on december 6, 1989, a lone gunman gunned down fourteen women at a montreal college.
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kaik
Jgnat, I have not said every family with mentally ill member, nor wanted to generalize. However, family can be crucial for getting mentally ill person treated before something bad happens and than these individuals became responsibility of the state. In the case of Olga Hepnárová that killed 8 people, her family failed the role. They were in denial that something was wrong and did not let her daughter to get institutionalized permanently. Olga was in her teen when she attempted murder, and was 22 when she went on killing spree. She was hang in 1975.
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Despicable crazy people
by jgnat inthere are some mental illnesses which come with the potential for extreme violence.
i'm not talking the sociopath here who kills without remorse, but those mentally ill people while in the throes of their delusions who are driven to kill.
the outcomes can be horrific.. on december 6, 1989, a lone gunman gunned down fourteen women at a montreal college.
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kaik
Crazy people that commit horrible crimes are not unique to USA or Canada. They always existed. Even wealthy societies does not have sufficient resources and will to deal with them. Eventually these individuals will get back to society where they would kill. 40+ years ago, the biggest spree murderer in communist Czechoslovakia was a woman, Olga Hepnárová that killed 8 people and injured twice that more. http://murderpedia.org/female.H/h/hepnarova-olga.htm She was treated in various mental institutions, attempted to murder her family, and yet she was always released back into the society. One of the problem with mentally ill people is also lack of will in families to get these people treated. There is huge stigma with a mental illness, and families do tend to appologies for the behavior regardless what the person had done.
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The Re-Establisment of the Jewish Priesthood
by designs innezzer ha-kodesh (school for priests) had students starting sacrificing animals this year in israel.
led by rabbi yisrael ariel and chief slaughterer rabbi yehudah giatt students are being taught how to slaughter lambs for passover and doves.
hundreds of jewish men with be certified as priests.
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kaik
There is no country in the area of Isreal that could successfully challenge the Jewish state. Every single of them would end up defeated. Turkey and Iran are not looking for confrontation with the world and the West either.
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From A Bublical Point Of View Did You Ever Think The Trinity Doctrine Made Sense?
by minimus ini see no logic in it.
i see what appears to be some scriptural contradictions but i see no merit in a trinitarian view of god.. .
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kaik
Trinity never made sense to me and this idea is rejected by both Judaism and Islam, but as well by numerous churches like Unitarians. Even ancient Christian churches like Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox differ on the nature of the Trinity which was behind the split of 1054. The Trinity problem is a major division between Western European culture and christianity and churches of the East.
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New explanation of Gog of Magog: Two Gogs?
by leaving_quietly ini just finished watching the recording of the talk at the annual meeting that re-explains gog of magog.
i caught something not previously talked about, that i can recall.. gog of magog is thought to be a coalition of nations that attach god's people during the great tribulation.
this is from ezekiel 38 & 39.. gog and magog in revelation 20 represents those with the same attitude as gog of magog.. thus, the new teaching (maybe not new, but i'll have to research this) is that gog in ezekiel is not the same as gog in revelation 20. two different gogs, happening about a thousand years apart.. .
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kaik
Russell used to say that Magog represented Caucasian Christians who were nominal in their worship of Jesus, but not good Christian in their heart. Studies in the Scripture: "Magog was the descendant of Japheth. (Gen. 10:2.) Europe was peopled by his descendants, and it was to them that the Gospel call of the Age now ending was by Divine appointment sent. (Acts 16:6, 9.) The Gospel was sent into Europe that it might be demonstrated that God could call and make into Christlike characters representatives of even the most cruel, bloodthirsty, quarrelsome, rapacious people on earth." In other words, it was Christian societies that disagree with the teaching of the pastor.
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Preterism
by Chris Tann inwhen i started to do my research concerning ttatt, i started to see the scriptures in a different light.
one thing i noticed is that when the epistles talk about the last days, christs presence, the ressurection to heaven; the writers were speaking specifically of their time, not some two thousand years later.
even when jesus speaks of his presence and the kingdom being established, he was talking to his disciples of that time and what they were soon to expect.
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kaik
Chris Tann, I am sure you have read that Noah had existed and tiny glacier on Mt Ararat contains the Ark.
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China's New export drive - trains and rail systems
by fulltimestudent infour or five times a week i travel on sydney's extensive suburban rail network.
these days, most services use a train like this,.
which are modern, double-decked, comfortable carriages.. it's not generally known that most of these train-sets (i.e.
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kaik
When I was a kid, my parents took me on "Orient Express" train that started in East Berlin and two nights ride it had brought us into Bulgarian/Turkish border via Budapest. They also took us for a train to Dalmatian coast to Split. I love trains. But train modernization in Europe will never achieve scale as in Asia due different tracks and voltage. Trains that comes from Vienna to Berlin via Prague have to change locomotive at the borders in Breclav and later again Bad Schandau in Saxony. I am not sure if the newest Pendolino needs to do that or German IC, but this is major obstacles for intra-continental rails from in EU from Brest to Brest. It is shame that years into EU intengration, the Europeans cannot even agree on this.