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.
Posts by kaik
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11The 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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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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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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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.
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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
Bible is not historically accurate. Many of the events and inviduals are not even proved to exist which include historicity of David.
Jesus was a false prophet. He promised returning to his desciples, which did not happened. He was not Jewish messiah, and he did not fullfill criterias that Jewish people would have expect from Messiah. Jesus is not comming back.
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WT Society correction regarding the 'Generation that will not die.'
by LogCon indid we say this generation?.
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we meant this generation.. .
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JWs do not care about old WT publication from 1984 promising them everlasting life in their generation. I remember this publication, and entire new generation of JWs grew up while other had passed away. Generation that will not pass away have certainly died.
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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
Modernization of railway lines in Eastern Europe is happening in the past 20 years. Similarly, Spain modernized it railways as well. There are plans lines for high-speed rail in EU interconnecting major cities. However, there there three main problems with European railway grid: different voltage, three major of them where German railways grid cannot serve outside Germany which is crucial for longer term; high density of the buildings along the railway lines, which is problem with modernization within large cities likes Vienna, Munich, Prague, and Budapest; and comepetion with low cost air lines. Railway is good for distances under 500 km which is enough between major cites, but not efficient on longer distances. Anyone who remember railways in Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, there is certainly huge improvement of rail lines in the past 25 years.
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What would make them leave?
by Separation of Powers inin your experience, what would the org have to do that would cause the most people to leave?.
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It will vary by country as each nationality has different sensitivity to issues. In Central and Eastern Europe the biggest whine I hear from my relatives are money and donation. All three generations of JWs in my family complain about it. Czechs would not care about sexual scandals or missue of power, but money will be the deal breaker. Second issue would be big change of doctrine, but this is doubtfull. JWs do have access to Bible and can see numerous errors on WT doctrine, but choose not to do so. Even if Jesus would return and with entire legionof angels, JWs would still follow WT .
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Are YOU a person who "collects" things? Let's chat a moment . . .
by Terry inas a kid i only collected comic books until around 1962.. my collection was very important to me and i had emotional excitement at the release of a new comic--but--i made a date with 2 girls.
on the same day and didn't have any money!
(not thinking it through, you see :).
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kaik
My mon does not hoard, she regularly spent time to get rid of things she does not need. She collected china and we have some antiquity that are in our family for four to six generations, but otherwise she throws everything out. I do not like accummulating things around the house and on the backyard due maintenance. Things get dirty, dusty, and difficult to go through.
There is difference between hoarding and collecting. Hoarding is compulsive disorder where people even collect garbage because they feel emotionally attached to it including newspaper, bottles, empty cases, cans, and wrappings.