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241 | WHERE TO FIND ALL THE NAMES OF GOD | Ps 83:18 | flinkywood | 76316 | ||
Truthfinder, this is a re-posting of what I asked you twice over the last 8 months, for which I haven't received your reply: A little while back I asked you to compare Abraham's faith to God's; you never responded to that particular question. To wit: Whereas the JW's state that Jesus is really the archangel Michael, a creation, and whereas Abraham was poised to sacrifice his own son, and God only a proxy creation (Michael-Jesus), not even so much as His own flesh and blood, who, therefore, has greater faith, Abraham, the father of Issac, or God, the father of...Michael the archangel?" Is Michael the real Son of God? Does Abraham have more faith than God? I also understand the JW's don't believe in hell, which is particularly handy when you don't believe in Jesus. If there ain't no hell, then what's Jesus-Michael saving us from? It's the pointless sacrifice of an angel, which probably nails the JW position on Jesus' true identity right to the wood: God's not fool enough to waste His blood on us. What a mess this JW thing is. The subject is faith and whether you got it, whether you got Jesus. Ask Jesus Himself who He is. All your Pharisitical JW word whacking is bloodless jive. |
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242 | WHERE TO FIND ALL THE NAMES OF GOD | Ps 83:18 | flinkywood | 76340 | ||
Truthfinder, Paul was a believer; you are not. Don't twist his words. You don't believe in Christ and you don't believe in hell: no judgement, no atonement. Do you imagine these wordsprays of yours will defend you on that day? You have evaded both questions and are a perfect watchtower soldier. No matter. I won't correspond with you again. |
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243 | scripture supporting Trinity doctrine? | Ps 83:18 | flinkywood | 106490 | ||
Edie, Kalos' answer is excellent. Additionally, we have the following verses from Romans in which God, the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ are used interchangeably in one of the most explicit New Testament expressions of the Holy Trinity: "However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you." (Rom 8:9-11 NASB) It's only through willful ignorance that anyone denies the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. Hope this more than answers your question. Colin |
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244 | scripture supporting Trinity doctrine? | Ps 83:18 | flinkywood | 106494 | ||
Edie, the NWT is written from an anti-Holy Trinity position, so it's translation committee skews its textual interpretations accordingly. The JW "bible" is unique in this regard. There is much on this website about the Jehovah's Witnesses and the senseless "God" verses "a god" question. Search under John 1.1, NWT, Jehovahs Winesses, etc. You'll find lots. Colin |
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245 | scripture supporting Trinity doctrine? | Ps 83:18 | flinkywood | 106502 | ||
Tara, here's a site that might start to answer your question: http://www.towerwatch.com/Witnesses/New_World_Translation/new_world_translation.htm Colin |
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246 | scripture supporting Trinity doctrine? | Ps 83:18 | flinkywood | 106527 | ||
Hi, Tara, in what way is your question personal? Colin |
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247 | scripture supporting Trinity doctrine? | Ps 83:18 | flinkywood | 106590 | ||
Tara, I still don't see your question as personal, but here goes. I read from your posts that you are a JW, so I assume you have some experience in defending the NWT or have sufficient doctrinal confidence to enter this Christian forum. You don’t sound naïve, but like someone who knows the ropes. Generally, JW's who visit this forum don't remain because at some point the Christian challenges put to them overwhelm them: it’s as impossible to defend the NWT as Christian translation as it is impossible to expunge the deity of Christ from the scriptures. How can you sustain a defense when the entire bible, front to back, bursts with references to His sonship, His kingship, His transcendent, eternal glory? And yet this vast and unfathomably rich scriptural revelation is lost to you – indeed you are lost – without the spirit of Christ in you, without believing in the Son of God and receiving His forgiveness. To call Him the angel Gabriel is a spiritual disaster. The depth of self-deception, of willful self-delusion in the Watchtower Society – what they must feel inside themselves – is hard to for me to imagine, and it’s probably why they’ve also tried to erase hell. God save them, really. My experience with JW’s is that without the Watchtower answer book handy, they are unprepared to defend their translation. What’s more – and this is largely subjective – I’ve never felt any JW make a defense of their faith from the heart, as it were. This heart-faith is apparently not in them and is why I believe their doctrinal position has little to do with lack of knowledge and everything to do with lack of faith. Tara, it’s good you’ve checked into this forum. I hope you put up a fight – you’ll have to – and that you’ll have a major change of heart. In case you didn’t already know, here is a website in defense of the NWT. See how it holds up in the forum: http://users.eggconnect.net/noddy3/pageindex.htm Colin |
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248 | Prophetic perfect tense in other verses? | Ps 102:16 | flinkywood | 99984 | ||
Justme, I sent a question to the Lockman Foundation translation committee over 9 months ago and never heard back. How long did you wait for you answer? Colin. |
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249 | Prophetic perfect tense in other verses? | Ps 102:16 | flinkywood | 100039 | ||
Thanks, Hank. My question was about the use of future tenses in OT Hebrew (not the prophetic, specifically) and Lockman's handling of the English auxiliary forms "shall" and "will". I thought I'd gone the correct route. I'll try again. Thanks, Hank. Colin |
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250 | Prophetic perfect tense in other verses? | Ps 102:16 | flinkywood | 100294 | ||
Merci beaucoup, Justemoi, Colin |
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251 | Prophetic perfect tense in other verses? | Ps 102:16 | flinkywood | 100377 | ||
French, Justemoi, French, a language best spoken through a mouthful of cheese and bread. Colin |
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252 | Prophetic perfect tense in other verses? | Ps 102:16 | flinkywood | 100424 | ||
New York I speak, Spanish I speak, French I don't, but I started randomly Frenchifying after seeing a Meineke commercial in which a filthy mechanic is yelling into a phone, then turns to the camera with a smarmy "Bonjour". Colin |
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253 | Prophetic perfect tense in other verses? | Ps 102:16 | flinkywood | 100464 | ||
Justme, I use primarily E-Sword bible software. It's free on the web. I do word studies from it, though randomly and without any formal method or discipline. I just read, hit something that gets me, compare that something in another translation, then either let it lie or start digging. For example, why does the NKJV have 2 Cor 9.7 "So let each one give as he purposes in his heart...", and the ESV, "Each one must give as he has made up his mind..." What about the Word "kardia" makes it either "heart" or "mind". Actually, I think I'll study this and get back to you. This is basically how I stumble into word studies. How about you? Colin |
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254 | The Bible and Science, #3 | Ps 102:26 | flinkywood | 52234 | ||
Note how vigorously this law works against the notion that life somehow arose from random events over time. The notion: Given unlimited time plus a trillion typewriting tamarind monkeys, Psalm 139 (KJV) will inevitably result. But since it takes more energy to assemble a thing than to disassemble it, time and chance can't monkeydance. For every simian keystroke there's a weightier anti-keystroke: the 2nd Law means the monkey system is un-typing faster (if even by grace notes) than it types. The life which improbably self-assembled, survived, self-replicated then bulged from the Primordial Pool had oceans more odds against it than for it, more anti-chance than chance, unless... God. | ||||||
255 | The Bible and Science, #3 | Ps 102:26 | flinkywood | 52298 | ||
Dear Morant61 and Parable, a recent Economist article reported on current attempts to accord self-sacrificial love with the theory of evolution, whose core tenet is that hazard begat order of increasing complexity and variation: nothingness begat bang begat heat begat dust begat rock begat love. Love came from a rock: evolved from molecules, through single-celled yodie-kadodies, through T-rex, through mamalia, through to H. Erectus and the Beatles. Since it evolved from nothing, love must fit into the theory of nothing somehow; it must have a function beneficial to survival, otherwise it would have been selected out. Self sacrificial love appears on the surface to work against survival, so what's it doing there? Some researchers are puzzled. For this I like 1 John 4:19, "We love, because He first loved us." Morant61, The physical laws God made to run His creation are often used to disprove His authorship of them. Since evolution theory is founded on chance events, I just like how perfectly those same physical laws which supposedly arose by chance (chaos theory's entropy credits? Holy Enron, Batman!) disprove the possibility of their having ever arisen by chance at all. Don't you just love it? The whole thing is too fantastic, really. |
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256 | The Bible and Science, #3 | Ps 102:26 | flinkywood | 52347 | ||
Hank, I live near Hollywood, and until recently drove a Subaru Brat dubbed "Sir Booboo" by my wife. Flinky is our dog. Though I don't buy evolution, I also don't buy creation "science" because it's clearly un-scientific. Flood science is also a misnomer. That animals of icreasing comlexity and similarity are sorted uniformly in age contemporaneous strata worldwide is hard to square with a 6k-yr-old earth plus flood. Nevertheless, Jesus quoted scripture, so I rest assured on God's having created the heavens and the earth, and I'll take the flood on faith. How He did it all and how long it took Him is a mystery I hope to understand in heaven. Good science heads towards God, not away. |
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257 | The Bible and Science, #3 | Ps 102:26 | flinkywood | 52507 | ||
Hank, my dog is smart and would likely agree, though I don't believe he has an opinion on the matter. Colin (my humanoid handle). | ||||||
258 | Quote needed about God's nearness. | Ps 119:151 | flinkywood | 113957 | ||
Here's a collection about God's nearness. I've never read any scripture to perfectly match your query. The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. (Psa 34:18) The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. (Psa 145:18) Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth. (Psa 119:151) Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. (Jam 4:8) Nigh enough? Colin |
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259 | Quote needed about God's nearness. | Ps 119:151 | flinkywood | 113987 | ||
Merci, monsieur Hank. Thy words are meet meat meted. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. (Joh 6:55) Colin |
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260 | where is the holy spirit | Ps 139:7 | flinkywood | 116273 | ||
Jlpangilinan, I was taught a song as a kid which ended "...God in three Persons, blessed Trinty." How God can be in three Persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - is a mystery of our Faith beyond our reason. That's probably among the many reasons He gave to each of us a measure of faith (Rom 12.3). Colin |
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