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51: Jehovah's Witnesses, Anti-semitism and the Third Reich
... given in this article is historically accurate and that the basic facts presented are irrefutable, we reprint full documentation in the pages that follow. DOCUMENT A KONRAD FRANKE'S TESTIMONY Konrad Franke , later Watch Tower Society branch servant (director or overseer) for Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany, was present at the June 26, 1933 Witness convention in Berlin. In 1976 Franke gave a series of two part lectures (which lasted about three hours in all) in many places throughout ... We declare that the holy Scriptures set forth in the Bible constitute the Word of Jehovah God given to men for their guidance in righteousness, and that the Word of God is the truth, and that it is of greatest importance that man have a knowledge of his ... Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the ... ...
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52: Trinity proof texts: John 5:18
... Jesus merely broke Pharisaic Jewish tradition, not the actual law of Moses. Anti-Trinitarian rebuttal #3 refuted: The Mishnah and Talmud of the tractate Shabbat list ... Moral laws never change and have always existed. Ceremonial laws change and have a beginning and ending point. In other words, while lying has always been sin, the ... The watchtower magazine teaches that Jw's are permitted to lie to the public in order to hide the true of their false gospel from the enemies of their god. Typical of ... Evidently the course of Abraham, Isaac, Rahab, and Elisha in misdirecting or in withholding full facts from non-worshipers of Jehovah must be viewed in the same ... "living by every word of God" "the sum of they word" and Jesus argued, "on the other hand Satan it is written" When two laws come into conflict, one must give way. ... Instead of arguing that He has done the same as other righteous men, in John 5, Jesus elevates himself well above these men and places himself in oneness with God. ... ...
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53: Official creed of the Orthodox church
... Church's life from its beginning. Early Christians began calling the Eucharist "the medicine of immortality" because they recognized the great grace of God that was received in it. LITURGY LITURGY is a term used to describe the shape or form of the Church's corporate worship of God. The word liturgy derives from a Greek word which means "the common work". ... Christians depart this life, they remain a vital part of the Church, the body of Christ. They are alive in the Lord and "registered in heaven" (Hebrews 12:23). They worship God (Revelation 4:10) and inhabit His heavenly dwelling places (John 14:2). ... Amen. IN EXPLANATION OF ARTICLE 1. CONCERNING GOD AND THE WORLD Q. What Dogmas are contained in the first article of the Creed? A. The Dogmas: a.) Concerning God and b.) Concerning the World. ... Q. Do all the Churches believe in the Three Persons of the Holy Trinity? A. All except the Unitarians, who, concerning God, accept that He is one Person only; The Jehovah Witness who accept one ... ...
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54: Bulwarks of the Faith Foy E Wallace JR. Refuting Dogmas Catholicism ...
... Holy ground to the Jew, and events no less sacred to the Christian; the temple of Solomon, the house of God; the ark of the BULWARKS OF THE FAITH covenant, the name of Jehovah; marvelous works ... The idea of a community church had just begun to "pop-up" over the country, you know; a community church-they would all merge into one community church; not surrender any article of belief or ... And I believe that when men and women possess the elements of honesty and sincerity they can come to the word of God, read it, hear it preached, and find a solution to the mysticism and darkness in which ... We do not need a new wall, do not want a new wall, and we are not building a new wall-we propose simply to repair the broken down places in the original wall. Restoration does not call for a new ... First: The Function Of History. It belongs to history to relate the founding of that reli-gious society beginning in Palestine nineteen centuries ago, known as the church, of which Jesus Christ was ... ...
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55: H.A.A. Kennedy: The Expositor's Greek Testament, The Epistle ...
Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter False Dilemma: Trinitarian Jehovah's Witnesses project the false impression that since Kennedy takes the active interpretation of harpazo ... worship after the resurrection and exhalation by God to possess a name among men equal to Jehovah of the Old Testament. Full documentation of Text: [Note: the garbled text is Greek. ... See job iv. 16, Dan. v. 6 an three other places, Wisd. xviii. 1, 4 Macc. xv. 4. Plainly, from the context of these passages, the word had come, in later Greek, to receive a vague, general meaning, far removed from the accurate, metaphysical content which belotiged to ... John xvii- 5, Heb. i- 3), as possessing, that is to say, the same kind of existence as God possesses, without indulging in speculations on the metaphysical relationship of the Son ... -SvolLcL. r6 gv. should be read with the best MSS. It is quite possible that the last syllable of lXcLpLa-cLro occasioned the omission of the article. To what does SvopcL refer ? ... ...
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56: A Short History of the Watchtower Organization
... In particular, he came up with a basis for reinterpreting the Second Coming as an invisible event: In Benjamin Wilson's Emphatic Diaglott translation of the New Testament the word rendered coming in ... The writings of Barbour and Paton that Russell had helped publish or distribute were Trinitarian in their theology. And the Watch Tower itself was at first vague and noncommittal on the subject. It ... and the beloved wife of our heavenly Father, Jehovah God." (The Watchtower, May 1, 1957, p. 285) A superb administrator, Knorr shifted the sect's focus from dynamic leadership to dynamic membership. ... However, the official prediction is well documented. See, for example, the article titled "Why Are You Looking Forward to 1975?" in The Watchtower of August 15, 1968, pp. 494-501. Allowing for a ... of 1975. Even at Brooklyn headquarters little groups meeting privately for Bible study were beginning to question not only the 1914-based chronology that produced the 1975 deadline, but also the ... ...
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57: Ellen G. White found guilty of plagiarism (copying)
In the time of Moses, if anyone started a fire on his own to enjoy a cup of hot herb tea on Sabbath, he was stoned, and not in the modern sense of the word either. If he wandered around in the local swapmeet on Sabbath in ... If people can't read, they can't be reached by reading; if they can read, they might be reached by the wrong reading. How churches solve this problem is to assign it to God. That's an old idea too. God has often been given credit for things he didn't do; and since the beginning of time the devil has been exonerated for things ... One of them, unsigned, was on an editorial page under the title "Are You a Plagiarist? If So, Please Do Not Write for the Review."" The other short article, entitled "Spiritual Plagiarism," by J. B. Gallion, was even a bit ... The idea that Ellen saw everything first from God in the words of whomever she was copying was not new with Olson. In 1889 at Healdsburg, California, some of the White defenders debated the members of the local ministerial ... ...
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58: The Incarnation of God, the Son: Jesus Christ
... Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper", is about a prince and who trades places with a peasant. Twain's story closely illustrates Phil 2:6 is saying. No matter what a king gives up, he is still the king, even if he appears to be a peasant. ... It is in this distinctive form of the Godhead that Paul says he was equal with God." (Maurice Barnett 1990, The deity of Christ, p54-55) c. "existing in the form of God, the word God is talking about God as He is in heaven. We are not talking about a God ... of that divine morphe and took the morphe of a bondservant." (Tom O'neal, Welch O'neal debate, 1994) 2. Full-Kenotic Dilemma: Trinitarian While the "Full Kenotic view", does not contract the context of Phil 2:6 , it does contradict other passages. ... of the world." (John 17:24) 3. 1 Jn 2:13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. 4. 1 Pe 1:20 For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-incarnation-Jesus-god-son.htm
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59: Personal Evangelism 101
The support and feedback from the brethren at these two places has been invaluable to me. Bob Buchanan, whose enthusiasm for lost souls, and whose influence and ... If you do not feel that you are a part of the solution, will you begin praying with me, every night before you go to bed, "Lord, revive the church, beginning with ... However, even Isaiah said in Isaiah 55:11 that his word as it goes forth from his mouth "shall not" return to me void but that "it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it." I am convinced that if you sow enough seed, in enough hearts, that God will produce an increase (I Corinthians ... their faith and trust in God by committing to obey God's laws. "And all the people answered and said, all that Jehovah hath spoken we will do." (Exodus 19:8). ... The cross makes me want to kill my (old) self (never right to literally do it). -- Last line of article "What it cost God to forgive man" -- (it cost Him His Son) -- ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-brent-hunters-evangelism-101.htm
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60: White Estate's suppressions of Ellen G. White's book "Spirit ...
... In this article he calls the attention of his readers to the importance of purchasing the foregoing mentioned book. From this article we make the following quotations: ... Now note carefully, that, commencing at the beginning of her first vision, as published in 1847, we read down thirty-three lines and discover that the late republished work agrees with the old one nearly word for word, only a few slight changes without altering the sense. But at the end of the thirty-third line we find ... "It was just as impossible for them (those who gave up their faith in the 1844 movement) to get on the path again and go to the city, as all the wicked world which God ... There were eleven numbers of this printed. They were issued from various places in the East, covering the period from July, 1849, to November, 1850. In the number for ... 'Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.' (John 8:32)" (Taken from Dr. Ronald Number's lecture "Prophetess of Health," San Bernardino, California, ... ...
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61: Rapture Doctrine invented by John Darby in 1830 AD
... The church is not prophesied in the Old Testament and will be abolished at the second coming. The prophetic clock starts ticking again at the "Rapture" which is the beginning of the 70th week of Daniel. There will be 3 ½ years of peace followed by 3 ½ years of tribulation. Truth: The church is part of God's eternal purpose and will endure forever into the future: "so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places. This was in accordance with the ... While convincing to his lemmings who sold their houses and maxed out their credit cards and gave the money to Camping to spread the word through a global advertising campaign, his insights make him worthy of being stoned as a ... This period includes the seventieth week of Daniel's prophecy (Daniel 9:24-27; Matthew 24:15-31; 25:31-46)." c. Church of God article #14: "The Millennial Reign of Christ The second coming of Christ includes the rapture of the ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/rapture-origin-john-nelson-darby-1830ad.htm
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62: Jesus Echoes the "I AM" statements of Jehovah in the Gospel of ...
... At the same time the word 'ego eimi' point forward to a future fulfillment (8:24,28) and thus the reader is called to anticipate what it is about Jesus' exaltation on ... John 6:20 echoes Isaiah 41:10,13 (fear not) Phil 2:6-8 echoes John 13:19 which echoes Isaiah 43:10-12 (saviour/God incarnate) John 14:5-6 echoes Isaiah 40:3 (the way) ... Secondary Echo Examples These passages follow the pattern of Jesus echoing the words of Jehovah, but are not in themselves definitive in proving the deity of Christ. ... These 'I am' sayings without an image fit into three main categories of form: Those sayings combined with the definite article and a present participle: 4:26; 8:18 ... The exact sense of Jesus' reply to their question is uncertain. The Revised Standard Version translates, "Even what I have told you from the beginning," or ... Isaiah 45:3 "And I will give you the treasures of darkness, And hidden wealth of secret places, In order that you may know that it is I, The Lord, the God of Israel, ... ...
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63: Sabbathgate 1888 by Kerry Wynne
... Domitian reigned from 81-96 AD (Wikipedia, "List of Roman Emperors"). Now, for comparison, let us review the Roman Empire's Jewish persecutions (Wikipedia article, "First Jewish-Roman War: The ... Lot, being uncircumcised, was saved from Sodom, the angels themselves and the Lord sending him out. Noah was the beginning of our race; yet, uncircumcised, along with his children he went into the ... See how God will destroy the nations to the beat of instruments of music as they also are BURNED. And you were commanded to keep Sabbaths, that you might retain the memorial of God. For His word makes this ... This attempt to evade the plain meaning of the passage doesn't work because there are about 20 other places in Scripture where the plural form of the word Sabbath, Sabbaton, is used where context ... book, Replies To Elder Canright's Attacks on Seventh-day Adventists. 1889 - The Healdsburg, California Enterprise publishes a remarkable story, March 20, 1889, exposing Ellen White's plagiarism. ... ...
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64: "KJV Only" advocates refuted!
... We have included in this collection 13 different places in the original 1611 edition of the KJV where the translators give alternate manuscript readings. The images on the right are from the ... The definite article was also added to the centurion's confession in Mt 27:54.) How can you accept that the Textus Receptus is perfect and error free when Acts 9:6 is found only in the Latin ... Must we possess a perfectly flawless bible translation in order to call it "the word of God"? If so, how do we know "it" is perfect? If not, why do some "limit" "the word of God" to only ONE "17th Century ... Among the criticisms levelled at Erasmus one of the most serious appeared to be...that his text lacked part of the final chapter of I John, namely the Trinitarian statement concerning 'the Father, ... Truly (good Christian Reader) we never thought from the beginning, that we should need to make a new Translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one, (for then the imputation of Sixtus had ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/b-kjv-only.htm
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65: Difficult Questions for Mormons to answer
Published in 1823 (7 years before the B of M) less than 100 miles from the Joseph Smith's parents home. Mormon Article of Faith #8: "We Believe the ... emphasize part of the Word of Wisdom and ignore the part forbidding the eating of meat except in winter, cold or famine? (Doc. & Cov. 89:12,13). ... God rejected the fig leaf aprons which Adam and Eve made (Gen. 3:21). Why do Mormons memorialize the fall by using fig leaf aprons in the secret ... The series of questions below are provided courtesy of: http://www.california.com/~rpcman/BOMQUEST.HTM Book of Mormon Culture Why does the Book of Mormon mention Silk (Alma 1:29)? LDS Apologist John ... Why didn't Nephi compare and contrast the New World with Jerusalem? These were two vastly different places. Book of Mormon Metallurgy Why does the ... Main themes of Mormonism not in Book of Mormon: Why isn't the Elohim (God) being the father of Jehovah (Jesus) and being once a mortal man discussed? ... ...
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66: Harnack, Adolf: Outlines of the History of Dogma
... Harnack labels the JW's view of Jesus (Arian) as polytheism and that Arius's views were borrowed from Greek pagan thought! Harnack says that the apostle Paul was influence by Hellenism, which JW's label as "pagan Greek thought" in the article... Click to View Decepto-Meter A review of the value of Adolf von Harnack anti-Trinitarian authority By Perry Robinson Jehovah's Witnesses makes use of the German scholar Adolf von Harnack to a large degree to substantiate his case against the ... but man himself believing in the divine." (Carl F.H. Henry, God, Revelation and Authority, Word Publishers, Waco, TX, Vol. 2, 1976, p. 120) "Of the many influences that helped to shape Harnack the historian and theologian, none was greater than that of Albrecht Ritschl. ... be freed from dogma-the reason being that 'as the adherents of the Christian religion had not these dogmas from the beginning...the business of the history of dogma is to ascertain the origin of Dogmas and then to describe their development.' ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Harnack.htm
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67: The ministry of Dr. Hugh Ross exposed
... Howitt wrote to appropriate professors in nine leading universities, asking, "Do you consider that the Hebrew word yom (day), as used in Genesis 1, accompanied by a numeral should properly be ... However, Flavius Josephus, famous Jewish historian of the first century, wrote about creation in the first chapter of Book One of his Artiquities of the Jews, "..God commanded that there should be light: and when that was made, he considered the whole mass, and separated the light and the darkness; and the name he gave to one was Night, and the other he called Day; and he made the beginning of ... The very latest on this may be seen in the August, 1993, issue of Scientific American. It is reported that Dr. William Schopf of the University of California at Los Angeles found supporting evidence ... The evolutionary authors of an article in Scientific American, April, 1992, say the Atlantic Ocean is nearing its maximum width, in contrast to the continued Westward Ho! of South America envisioned ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/tracks/b-hugh-ross.htm
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68: Werner, Martin: The Formation of Christian Dogma
... "The dogma of Christ's deity turned Jesus into a Hellenistic redeemer-god and thus was a myth propagated behind which the historical Jesus completely disappeared" (Martin Werner, The Formation of ... manner: 'The Word sprang from heaven into the womb of the Virgin; it sprang from the Mother's womb on, to the Tree; it sprang from the Tree into Hades; it sprang up to earth again- Resurrection! ... The embarrassing nature of the ensuing situation had already revealed itself in that the Church at the beginning of the transformation-crisis exalted the records of the original form of Christianity ... This entanglement in problems, which were misconceived, throws into strong relief the failure of ancient Catholicism relative to the real problems. In the Trinitarian-Christological confusion failure ... Deception Exposed: What they fail to tell the same article also says: The Significance Of The Idea Of The Divine Sonship: The designation of Christ as a pre-existent being was handed on to ... ...
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69: Matthew Fontaine Maury "Pathfinder Of Sea" Psalms 8
The proceeds from the sale of this little pamphlet will be used as the beginning of a fund for the erection of a monument to Commodore Maury in Richmond. KATHERINE C. STILES. See also: God's ... for one of our own countrymen to discover the paths of the sea; to map the tracks of the winds; to shorten sailing time to California thirty days, to Australia twenty, and to Rio Janeiro ten. ... His inspiration, Holy Writ, Psalm 8:8; Ecclesiastes 1:6." A genius? No. Just a simple Bible-believing Christian who trusted the inerrancy of the Word of God. (Duane Gish, Days of Praise; Daily Bible ... This photo settles the issue: Click to View Maury's article: The Bible And Science, Jan. 22, 1855 From the Southern Churchman : - 1etter, by M. F. MAURY. THE BIBLE AND SCIENCE. Observatory, ... sky, Sir John Herschel has been sounding, the heavens with his powerful telescope, and gauging the stars ; and where do you think lie found the most barren part--" the empty places " of the sky ? ... ...
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70: The Sinner's Prayer: Modern apostasy and false teaching that ...
... The excesses in Cane Ridge produced expectations for preachers and those seeking religious experience. A Second Great Awakening, inferior to the first, was beginning in America. Preachers were ... Even a Bible was printed with this theology inserted into God's Word. Thus, in the 1960s, the Living Bible's translation became the translation of choice for the crusades as follows: "Even in his own land and among his own people, the Jews, he was not accepted. Only a few welcome and received him. But to all who received him, he gave the right to become children of God. All they needed to do was ... A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great ... of conversion with a nonsensical practice. Written and copyright by Steven Francis Staten. This article is an overview of a book being written on the origins of the Sinner's Prayer. Click Your Choice ... ...
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71: pre-earthquakes-history-data
... To be able to assess accurately the claims of the Watch Tower Society, we must first seek an answer to these questions. Recording earthquake activity The Greek word for "shaking" and (when it applies ... Similarly an earthquake may be large but not destructive of life. The earthquake in Owens Valley, California, in 1872, for example, is said to have been the greatest earthquake in the United States in ... If we were to believe a recent claim by the Worldwide Church of God, an increasingly vocal organization proclaiming the speedy end of the age, the answer would be 'Yes.' On page 7 of the April, 1986, ... Charles F. Richter, former President of the Seismological Society of America and the originator of the "Richter scale," made reference to this evidence in an article published in the December 1969 ... The table on page 54, published in 1912 (for the years 1899 to 1909), gives some idea of the high seismicity recorded in the period previous to 1914. For the period before the beginning of our century ... ...
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72: One verse refution of Transubstantiation
... These ideas introduce us to the origins of Catholic sacramental theology. It is well to look at these in order to determine more clearly what these ideas meant at the beginning. That will be the task of this and the following chapter. In discussing the language of ... Jesus Christ became flesh "through the word of God," and the "eucharistizing" takes place "through the prayer of the word that is from him." Almost every word in the Greek is ambiguous and even a literal English translation does not adequately suggest the options. The central issue is whether "word," if used with same meaning in both places, is the spoken word or the personal Word. The principal interpretations, based on later liturgical developments, have been that ... A. D. Nock, "Hellenistic Mysteries and Christian Sacraments," in Early Gentile Christianity and its Hellenistic Background (New York: Harper Torchbook, 1964), p. 125. Note H. Wheeler Robinson's phrase "representative realism" in his article "He-brew Sacrifice and ... ...
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73: Scientology is not a Religion: Kent
... Some people assume that religious practice is a guaranteed human right, but even a superficial examination of world events shows that many atrocities occur in the name of God or religion. ... In November, 1991, the St. Petersburg Times ran a long article entitled, "Scientology's Children," and it contained an excerpt about a German mother and her son: Eva Kleinberg moved from Germany ... The Kleinbergs' account about limited family time also rings true because of a series of internal memos (of which I have copies) from Scientology's Pacific Area Command (in Los Angeles, California) beginning ... I cannot confirm the existence of RPFs in or near Copenhagen (Denmark), Johannesburg (South Africa), Sydney (Australia), and several other American locations. In a phrase, the RPF program places ... A final word must be said about the RPF, the RPF's RPF, and children. Some evidence exists that children may be subject to these programs. Monica Pignotti, for example, reported to me that she was ... ...
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74: Cosmic Consciousness, Richard Maurice Bucke, 1901 AD
... Religion will still dominate society when all creeds, priests and rituals would be superseded by man's direct intercourse with God." (Proceedings of the first annual ... Bucke got the idea of partially closing the prepuce with a suture from an article by a Scottish physician, Dr. Yellowlees .5 The intention was to inhibit erection by ... Although medicine in general had gone through a phase of therapeutic nihilism, both medicine and surgery in the 1880s were beginning to emerge into the modern era. ... Osier, in eloquent prose, enjoined the young graduates to find and cherish "The Master Word in Medicine", which was the simple four letter word - WORK. But the ... the process of Bucke's efforts, some of Whitman's older disciples, like John Burroughs, were gradually eased out of places of importance in the poet's inner circle. ... At the age of sixteen, Bucke left Ontario and headed for the West, eventually reaching California. In the next five years his adventures included fighting off, with a ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/cosmic-consciousness-richard-maurice-bucke-1901ad.htm
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75: Discussion: Eternal torment or annihilation?
... Jack Lewis's article was re-printed in Exegesis of Difficult Passages p.7. the Annihilationist should've quoted the whole article, rather than lifting out a paragraph to fit ... It seems that the rest of the Annihilationist's position on L&RM falls without his beginning premise about parables so I'll stop here. Paradise and the comma the ... We also find places where the physical life is contrasted with Nephesh of man such as 2 Sam 11:11 and echoed the idea of Isa 1:14 where God is said to have a soul. I don't see in light of the above, and in light of my earlier post on sheol, that a human body has a limiting extent on the soul. We ... And in those cases where Nephesh refers to man's transcendent self, which feels, thinks, and wills (Deut 21:14) It is noteworthy that the LXX never used the Greek word for ... This is God in operation against injustice against His people. This is God responding to the Assyrian's unholy challenge to Jehovah (Isa 36:18-20; 37:17). And Moses insists ... ...
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76: Anglo/British-Israelism: A DETAILED REFUTATION
... According to British Israelism the only difference between Israelism and Naziism is the question, who is the master race? The Lyric of Walt Disney, of California, might be recommended at ... Moreover, Paul's use of the word "Jew" in Acts 21:39, when he declared himself a Jew, was in contrast with the word "Egyptian" in verse 38, in the same connection. He was the same kind of a ... The spiritual application of the prophecy refers to the acceptance of the Gentiles as the people of God as shown by the quotations m numerous places in the New Testament of verses 9 and 10. But the physical application of the ... The British-Israel table of genealogies in the royal house of Brunswick gives only thirty-two generations from Luke 3:32-38. Beginning with Lk. 3:33 they shift to Matthew's record, Matt. ... The article in DESTINY then adds: "One has only to read the prophets to see this." And I will add: Yes-the prophet Ezekiel, for instance! It is difficult indeed to "see" how any man with ... ...
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77: The White Lie: Walter Rea: Chapter 1: How To Change History
Opportunity, a word scarcely recognized in most of the world, seemed at hand. In religion, the early part of the century, from the 1820s to the 1850s, was to see one of the last gasps of the old-time ... It was a great drama, that Millerite movement, with charges by each group of players swinging wildly to one side of the stage or the other, each claiming to have God on their side. One would have had ... New Testament Christians had given some attention and lip service to the Second Coming since the days of Christ. But the names and dates and places would be changed to protect the guilty. In the minds ... One by one, Ellen White began to accentuate in her writings (which she claimed came from "visions") each and every point of Protestant and Catholic theological controversy. Starting with the beginning ... It is difficult, if not impossible, for present-day Adventists to look at themselves and their saint, Ellen White, in historical perspective. A 1979 article dealing with this view sent shock waves ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/7-WL-CH1-save-history.htm
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78: Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan and Israel, Beth Alpert ...
... Ultimately, the battle over political control in Israel would be couched in religious terms. The HB and the variety of sacred places in the Iron Age both attest to ... This book described the evolutionary growth of man's idea of God. In it, paganism was part of the divine preparation for Christianity. While acknowledging that ... Several important works by anthropologists appeared at this time. In his article, "Religion as a Cultural System," Geertz suggested two stages for an anthropological ... Carefully constructed research designs (see Clarke 1968) can further these goals. Beginning in the 1970s, Dever developed these ideas within the context of ... offering.6 It was almost always offered with årp, a burnt offering. The word ªlm also referred to a burnt offering, possibly one similar to the biblical ... Burkert, W. 1983 Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth. Berkeley: University of California. Burrows, M. 1941 What Mean These ... ...
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79: Pots and Polities: Material Remains of Late Iron Age Judah in ...
Despite many difficulties, it is pos-sible to define Judaean material culture and to consider its relation to the borders of Judah. This article calls for a more ... One study, of obsidian tools in prehistoric California, is enlightening (Hughes and Bettinger 1984). Hughes and Bettinger have shown that the failure to relate ... An important contribution to spatial studies was made by Johnson, who formulated the "rank-size" rule. By this rule, if all the sites of a certain sys-tem are listed ... Theologically, God gave the land to the peoples (Deut 2:5, 9; 19:14; Josh 1:13; 18:3) and set the borders (Josh 22:25; cf. Ps 104:9). God is also the cause for both ... The JPF are found in all contexts, from tombs to domestic loci and public places. The overwhelm-ing majority were found broken, in secondary loca-tions. About 30 ... Horse and Rider Figurines Horse and rider figurines (HRF, fig. 9) from Judah have been known since the beginning of the 20th century (Mackenzie 1912-1913: 88), and ... ...
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80: Ellen G. White found guilty of plagiarism (copying)
... A somewhat modified version of the article was published In the new youth Sabbath School quarterly which is issued currently m Lincoln, Nebraska. We have also made this article ... Friend of the Whites; half brother of John Harvey Kellogg; probably the first Adventist to reach California and hold evangelistic meetings. In 1894 [in Australia] Mrs. White told me ... He is not at liberty to turn from them to learn his duty through any of the if's. We say that the very moment he does, he places the gifts in a wrong place and takes an extremely dangerous position. The Word should be in front and the eye of the church should be ... This effort is understandable but misplaced It may also prove to be counterproductive in the end. If the issue had been dealt with candidly from the beginning, we might now be spared ... Shun him." 2. Those who do see, but cannot bring themselves to believe that God would allow Ellen to do something that was unethical or wrong, justify what she did by saying that ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/7-WL-CH11-ethics.htm
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81: Joshua's Altar on Mt. Ebal and the Lead Curse Tablet
... The two-letter spelling "Yô or Yehô" is used in personal names like "Jochebed" meaning "Jehovah is glory" (Ex 6:20) and "Joshua" meaning ""Jehovah is salvation" (Ex ... Jannaeus used the three letter Paleo-Hebrew spelling "YHW" on his coins, 500 years after the Paleo-Hebrew script went extinct as a memorial of Israel's beginning. ... in the future you do not turn away from the King of Hatti, together with my sons, and from the word of the oath, then these oath gods shall benevolently protect you. ... The succession of the 10 commandments (God to Moses): Ex 20:19; Deut 5:25-27 d. The Law of Moses was in force continually from 1446 BC until it was abolished by being ... Ebal, Shiloh: "The fifth year was not past, and there was not one of the Canaanites remained any longer, excepting some that had retired to places of great strength. ... But this site will be the subject of another article. Let us return to Mt. Ebal. Our survey of Mt. Ebal itself began in February 1980, nearly two years after we began ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-altar-of-joshua.htm
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82: Scientology's Relationship With Eastern Religious Traditions
... This article also takes seriously Hubbard's vague but frequent allusions to similarities between Scientology and Eastern religions. It carefully considers Hubbard's ... Furthermore, Hubbard was philosophically and linguistically incorrect to say that "we have the word Dharma almost interchangeable with the word Dhyana. But whatever ... Consequently, one of Hubbard's organisations, the Church of Scientology of California, was inaccurate when it proffered that "[a] Scientologist is a first cousin to ... Nor do these codes have anything like Scientology's infamous "Fair Game Law" that was in effect formally for a year beginning in mid-October, 1967, which said that an ... the date of his advent is variously forecast, the nearest date places it 2,500 years after Gautama Buddha - or roughly 1950.... (Editors in Hubbard, 1974a: [n.p.]). ... Religious worship means reverence or veneration of God or of a supreme being. I do not find any such reverence or veneration in the creed of this church, or, indeed, ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/scientology-eastern-religions-Kent.htm
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83: Lunar Eclipses at birth and death of Christ: 1 BC and 3 April ...
And it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.' "Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and ... The birth of Christ of 4-7 BC is based upon a partial lunar eclipse on 13 March 4 BC but must be rejected because it places the birth of Christ too early and has serious chronology problems in ... But the biggest offence Danny Faulkner made was that when scholars clearly pointed out that his science was wrong, he did not go back and correct his original article or publish a footnote to the ... Instead, Tishri 37 BCE -Elul 36 BCE was also a Sabbatical year. Since food supplies would have been adequate at the beginning of the Sabbatical year, Jerusalem could not have fallen to Herod in Tishri ... of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness. ... ...
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84: In Darkest England and the Way Out, William Booth 1890 AD
... But take a simpler illustration, one which lies even within the memory of some that read these pages. From the beginning of the world down to the beginning of this ... FOOD SOLD IN DEPOTS AND SHELTERS DURING 1889. Article Weight Measure Remarks Soup 116,400 gallons Bread 192.5 tons 106,964 4-lb loaves Tea 2.5 tons 46,980 gallons ... not speak a word of English. The whole place is a hive of industry which fills the hearts of those who go to see it with hope that something is about to be done to solve the difficulty of the unemployed. Although our Factories will be permanent institutions they will not be anything more than temporary resting-places to those ... But no compulsion will for a moment be allowed with respect to religion. The man who professes to love and serve God will be helped because of such profession, and ... second credential is the fact that, while using all material means, our reliance is on the co-working power of God. We keep our powder dry, but we trust in Jehovah. ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/in-darkest-england-and-the-way-out-william-booth-1890ad.htm
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85: Modalism refuted: UPCI's Sixty Questions On The Godhead refuted ...
Anti-Trinitarian! United Pentecostal Church's: "Sixty Questions On The Godhead" Refuted! Click to View See modalism as taught by the UPCI Refuted at: Modalism Before noticing the questions we wish to make certain observations: It appears the questions are based upon the King James Version. The author of the questions seems unaware that the words Lord, LORD, God, GOD are translated from various Hebrew and Greek words. When LORD and GOD appear in the King James Version they translate the Hebrew word Yahweh (or the contraction Jah) which the American Standard Version renders Jehovah. The plural Hebrew word Eloheem is translated God. Lord and God do not always refer to each ... It uses the word LORD twice. What is teaches is that "'Yahweh is one' And His name one." Yahweh (singular) is the Hebrew name of eloheem (plural) who in the beginning created the heavens and the earth. Deuteronomy 4:35 and other Old Testament passages explain that "the LORD (Yahweh - singular) Himself is God ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-modalism-UPC-60-questions-godhead.htm
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86: How to be attain Sanctification!
How to be attain Sanctification! In the Old Testament "holiness", holy people, places and things, is the major emphasis of sanctification. Jehovah God is above all else a holy God who by his very nature sanctifies all persons and things to which he relates. To Moses, God said out of the burning bush: "Draw not nigh hither- put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for ... The New Testament becomes even more specific as to how we can participate in.God's nature, how we can know his holiness in our lives. When praying for his apostles, Jesus said: "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth" John 17: 17. This marvelous change of our human natures, God's word declares, is made ... Our sanctification was part of his divine plan designed in eternity before the creation of time and matter. "But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth" ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/d-sanctification.htm
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87: McKenzie, John L.: Dictionary of the Bible
Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Deceptive Quote: Trinitarian The Watchtower takes little bits of McKenzie's comments on Jn 1:1 (a god) and leaves the false impression in the mind of the reader that McKenzie agreed with the JW's mistranslation. What is clear, is that when McKenzie says Jesus is a divine being, he is ... This is a matter of usage and not of rule, and the noun [Gk. ho theos] is applied to Jesus a few times. "Jn 1:1 should rigorously be translated "the word was with the God [= the Father], and the word was a divine being." Thomas invokes Jesus with the titles which belong to the *Father, "My Lord and my God" (Jn 20:28). "The glory of our great ... The trinitarian definitions arose as the result of long controversies in which these terms and others such as 'essence' and 'substance' were erroneously applied to God by some theologians." (Dictionary of the Bible, John L. McKenzie, New York, 1965p. 899, quoted by anti-trinitarians) What they fail to tell the same article ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-McKenzie.htm
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88: Thayer, Joseph Henry: A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament
Thayer, Joseph Henry: A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (Grimm's lexicon translated by Thayer, with Thayer's personal commented added) Click to View How the quote appears in "Should you believe in the Trinity", Watchtower, JW's booklet. "In the same way, since John 1:1 shows that the Word was with God, he could not ... Grimm, Institutio theologiae dogmaticae, ed. 2, p. 228 sqq. [and the discussion (on Ro. ix. 5) by Professors Dwight and Abbot in Journ. Soc. Bib. Lit. etc. u. s., esp. pp. 42 sqq. 113 sqq.]. 3. spoken of the only and true GOD: with the article, Mt. iii. 9; Mk. xiii. 19; Lk. ii. 13; Acts ii. 11" (Joseph Henry Thayer: A Greek-English Lexicon of ... Thayer, it might be mentioned, was honest enough to say what the New Testament Greek taught, even though he didn't believe it." (Kingdom of the Cults, Walter Martin. p 81) Deception Exposed: The Watchtower fails to tell you that Thayer is not a Trinitarian, but a Unitarian who believed Jesus was a creature. No wonder nobody ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Thayer.htm
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89: Stumper questions Jehovah's Witnesses do not like to be asked ...
... Every time "proskuneo" is used in reference to Jesus, it is translated as "obeisance" (Mt 14:33, 28:9, 28:17, Lk 24:52, Heb 1:6, etc.), even though it is the same word in the Greek (see Gr-Engl Interlinear). Especially compare the Greek word "prosekunhsan" used with reference to God in Rev 5:14, 7:11, 11:16, and 19:4 and used with reference to Christ in Mt 14:33, 28:9, and 28:17. What is the reason for this inconsistency? If the NWT was consistent in translating "proskuneo" as "worship", how would the verses above referring to Christ read? The NWT translates the Greek word "kyrios" as "Jehovah" more than 25 times in the New ... If "ego eimi" was translated in Jn 8:58 the same way it is translated in every other verse in which it appears, how would Jn 8:58 read? In Rev 22:12-13, Jesus Christ, the one who is "coming quickly", says of himself, " I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end". In Rev 1:17-18, Jesus, the one who "became dead, but, look! ... ...
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90: Trinity proof texts: Isaiah 45:23-24 = Philippians 2:9-11
Trinity Proof Texts Click to View Isaiah 45:23-24: "I have sworn by Myself, The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness And will not turn back, That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance. They ... every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Click to View The irrefutable argument stated: Isaiah 45:23-24 states that every knee shall bow to Jehovah and every tongue shall confess allegiance to Jehovah. ... Then, they flip-flop (often in the same article) and say that that it does apply to Jesus but that this is not the highest form of honor equal to what the Father would receive. Just as slaves bow to human masters, men bow to Jesus, but that makes neither divine! Anti-Trinitarian rebuttals: Anti-Trinitarian rebuttal #1 Philippians 2:9-11 is not a quote of Isaiah 45:23-24 Anti-Trinitarian rebuttal refuted Only a blind ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-philippians9-11.htm
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91: William Barclay: Many Witnesses, One Lord
We can see exactly the same in English. If I say: 'James is man,' then I am simply describing James as human, and the word man has become a description and not an identification. If John had said ho theos en ho logos, using a definite article in front of both nouns, then he would definitely have identified the logos (the Word) with God, but because he has no definite article in front of theos it becomes a description, and more of an adjective than a noun. The translation then becomes, to put it rather clumsily, 'The Word was in the same class ... It is obvious that Barclay is viewing that Jesus is just as much VERY God as the Father. In Barclay's letter to Shoemaker, he says, "that he is of the same stuff as God, that is of the same being as God" which is echoing the Athanasian creed. William Barclay was a Unitarian, not a Trinitarian Nowhere does the New Testament identify Jesus as God. Jesus did not say, "He who has seen me has seen God." He said, "He who has seen me has seen the ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Barclay.htm
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92: Review: New International Version Bible: avoid
It is important to realize that any Bible version may be used as an interpretive aid or tool. Indeed the thoughts and opinions of men are often invaluable when wrestling with a difficult passage. This article instead focuses on whether the NIV should be relied upon as one's primary Bible and viewed as a literal rendering of the word of God. The alternative readings that exist among the more literal versions are modest ... Although modern scholars argue that a dynamic approach is necessary, if one believes that the Lord used a verbal, plenary inspiration process to produce the Scriptures, as is clearly taught in Exo. 4:15, 2 Pet. 1:20f., 1 Cor. 14:37, Mat. 22:31 and other places, then only a literal ... The NIV's inaccurate rendering disallows any interpretation of the passage that would view the sign as occuring in heaven where God dwells (Ps. 2:4), which is one possible interpretation of this passage. Joh. 2:10 "And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/b-NIV-Bible-New-International-Version-Review-exposed-avoid-bad-Accurate-Translation-Gods-Word.htm
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93: Trinity proof texts: John 10:30-33
... If the judges of Ps 82 are wicked creatures and can be called "gods" how much more should Jesus call himself, the "Son of God"? They were made to be "gods" as adults, Jesus has been God from all eternity (Jn 1:2) The "word of God came to them" (v35), Jesus was the Word became flesh (Jn 1:14). They were judges of physical ... This is why I can say what no other man or angel has ever said before: "I and the Father are one" because I am not a creature, I, like the Father, am God. The lack of the definite article (anarthrous) before "Son of God" does not make it any lower or than if the definite article was present. (ie. a Son of God vs. the Son of God). Such semantics are ... The Jews were fully aware that Jesus claimed to be sent/ordained/appointed of God, they rejected the claim! Three interpretations of what the passage is saying: I. The Correct Trinitarian paraphrase/interpretation: "When I said, "I and the Father are one", you should rightly stone me if I were a mere creature. But I am ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-john10-30.htm
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94: Refuted: Anti-Trinitarians misuse these passages to prove the ...
... Adam is clearly used as a metaphoric symbol for all of mankind in many places. Could Adam be nothing more than personification? The extent of personification of the Holy Spirit equals any Bible character. Anti-Trinitarian challenge: what verse shows the Holy Spirit to be a thing or an it? We know of none, therefore we are forced to the conclusion that the Holy Spirit is a person. #2 Anti-Trinitarian Proof Text Refuted Click to View The Holy Spirit is directly called the power of God in Luke 1:35 "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most ... No if the Holy Spirit was in the masculine, you would have a point. But God deliberately chose to use a neuter gender word to show us the Holy Spirit is a thing not a person. Gender of a word has nothing to do with ... repeatedly using IMPERSONAL pronouns when referring to God's holy spirit, a most DISRESPECTFUL thing to do if the holy spirit were the third person of a trinity, coequal, & cosubstantial with Jehovah God himself.... ... ...
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95: Prophecy Blunders! 100 Years of Failed Watchtower prophecies
... definitely marks the beginning of "the time of the end." this also shows that it is from the date 539 A.D. that the other prophetic days of Daniel must be counted." (Creation; 1927, p. 294) 1927 Applying the same rule then, of a day for a year, 1335 days after 539 A.D. brings us to 1874 A.D. at which time, according to Biblical chronology, the Lord's second presence was due. (Creation; 1927; p. 298) 1928 "The time of the Lord's second presence dates from 1874, as above stated." (The Harp of God p. 236, 1928 edition!) 1929 "Both the grantor and the grantee are fully persuaded from the Bible testimony which is the word of Jehovah God and from extraneous evidence ... They are being warned as God commands, that the disaster of Armageddon is just ahead." (J. F. Rutherford, Salvation, 1939, p. 310, 361) 1939 At San Deigo, California, there is a small piece of land, on which, in the year 1929 there was built a house, which is called and known as Beth Sarim. The Hebrew words Beth Sarim mean ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/Jw-Prophecy.htm
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96: Inspiration claims of the Watchtower Bible Tract Society
The Organization has made the same bold claim of inspiration from the year it was founded in 1881AD to the present. Every leader of the Organization has claimed inspiration from the beginning. Yet ... Read for yourself and you will see that they use every other term to denote inspiration except the word "inspired". "If the Society told me that this book is black instead of green, I would say, ... and that which was light one or two or six years ago would be regarded as darkness now: But with God there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning, and so it is with truth; any knowledge or ... No human interpretation of scripture is advanced." (Reconciliation, 1928, p. 6) 1930 "The Watchtower is the channel which Jehovah, our God, is using at this time to in the faithful remnant who are ... all things concerning his church, because he is in full command and fulfills completely the places or offices occupied by the apostle Paul and others; and that the instructions given by Paul to ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/Jw-inspiration.htm
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97: False Doctrine of Modalism: As taught by the United Pentecostal ...
... UPC "So, both the terms Logos and Holy Spirit refer to God Himself, in specific modes of activity." UPC John 1:1, 14 is a good summary of the teaching on the pre-existence of Jesus: In other words, Jesus existed from all eternity as God. The plan of the future Sonship existed with God from the beginning - as an idea in the mind of God. Ultimately, this Word became flesh - as the extension of God the Father in human form." John 1:1 The Word is the thought, plan, or expression in the mind of God. "We should also note that I ... He conceived the relation of the father to the son as like that of the spirit to the flesh. (the controversy regarding patripassianism seems somewhat obscured at this late date. Cyprian and others claimed these Modalists were Patripassians); Sabellius denied that he was a Patripassian. (Schaff admits that the Patripassians did not mean a real suffering but only a sympathy. Would any Trinitarian claim that God the father had no sympathy with his own son as he hung ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-modalism.htm
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98: Matthew was NOT originally written in Hebrew: JW's are false ...
... The First Gospel, however, was probably penned by Matthew in Greek and has survived until today. Matthew's logia did not survive, but his Gospel did. This was because the latter, part of the biblical canon and thus God's Word, was inspired and preserved by the Spirit of God. Matthew, J. W. McGarvey, p8 2. The Language There has been much difference of opinion ... To overcome this obviously unpalatable view the logia of Papias are converted into a complete Hebrew Gospel with only the translation into Greek ascribed to the unknown writer. To support this view the effort is made to show that our present Greek Matthew in various places betrays the fact that it is not a Greek ... His knowledge of this language must have advanced as time went on. It is well to note the influx of Hellenists into the church, beginning at Pentecost; proselytes followed in increas-ing numbers. Acts 10 reports the conversion of the entire connection of Cornelius by Peter; and Gal. 2:1-3 indicates the presence of ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/jw-YHWH-hebrew-matthew.htm
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99: Kittel, Gerhard: Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
But notice that Kittle dismisses this possible thought and gives his opinion that trinitarian doctrine had it origin in the Old Testament, and not PAGANISM. By creating a false dilemma and selective quoting, they deceive the reader into drawing a false conclusion. Notice that although Kittel admits, like all Trinitarians ... This book also states that at John 1:18; 3:16, 18; and 1 John 4:9, "the relation of Jesus is not just compared to that of an only child to its father. It is the relation of the only-begotten to the Father." So Jesus, the only-begotten Son, had a beginning to his life. And Almighty God can rightly be called his Begetter, or Father, in the same sense that ... The ref. is to the only child of one's parents, primarily in relation to them. Mono-genes is stronger than [Greek], for it denotes that they have never had more than this child. But the word can also be used more generally without ref. to derivation in the sense of "unique," "unparalleled," "incomparable," B. The Use in ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Kittel.htm
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100: Kung, Hans: Christianity and the World Religions
Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Satanic Quote: Trinitarian JW's quote Kung, and project the false view that they would have an easier time converting Muslims to Watchtower view of God, (where they call Jesus Lord, a God, and Messiah) than Trinitarians to the Triune ... He states: "Even well-informed Muslims simply cannot follow, as the Jews thus far have likewise failed to grasp, the idea of the Trinity. . . . The distinctions made by the doctrine of the Trinity between one God and three hypostases do not satisfy Muslims, who are confused, rather than enlightened, by theological terms derived from Syriac, Greek, and Latin. Muslims find it all a word game. . . . Why should anyone want to add anything to the ... What they fail to tell the same article also says: For the Christian Church, however, the central issue shifted, over the course of time, to the person of Jesus and his relation to God. And the controversy between Christianity and Islam remains wholly concentrated on this ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Kung.htm
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