Naw.
Posted on 12/21/2009 12:08:37 PM PST by annieup
FIRST OF ALL THE WITNESSES ARE NOT A CULT. THAT OPINION WAS FORMED BY SOMEONE THAT OBVIOUSLY FEELS THREATNED BY THE TRUTH.IT AMAZES ME THAT WHENEVER A WITNESS DOES SOMETHING WRONG IT MAKES THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NEWS! IF A BABTIST OR PROTESTANT DOES SOMETHING WRONG IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THEIR RELIGION. AND THIS BIG COVER UP GARBAGE IS A JOKE. ADMITTEDLY THEY ARE NOT PERFECT NOR CLAIM TO BE. MATT 24:9 SAYS THAT WE WOULD BE OBJECTS OF HATRED ON ACCOUNT OF HIS NAME. WHAT OTHER RELIGION IS HATED ON ACCOUNT OF HIS NAME? ONLY 1 THAT I CAN THINK OF THE WITNESSES PROUDLY GLORIFY JEHOVAHS NAME. ALSO WE ARE NOT PROGRAMMED. WE HAVE FREE WILL,GOD DOES NOT WANT ROBOTS, THAT IS WHY HE GAVE ADAM AND EVE FREE WILL. AND WE DO BELIEVE IN JESUS. HE IS GODS SON AND HE DID GIVE HIS LIFE FOR OUR SINS. I ALSO GET A KICK OUT OF THOSE WHO TELL US WHAT WE BELIEVE, ESPECIALLY IF IT ISN'T TRUE. PEOPLE JUST MAKE UP WHAT THEY WANT ABOUT THE WITNESSES AND THE NAIVE ONES BELIEVE IT. IF IT IS TRUE THEN LOOK INTO WHY WE BELIEVE WHAT WE DO. DONT JUST ASSUME TO KNOW EVERYTHING THAT THEY TEACH OR BELLIEVE BASED ON SOMEONE ELSE'S OPINION. TALK ABOUT HAVING A MIND OF YOUR OWN!!
That's my favorite recollection to share with the Mormon missionaries. I also cherish asking them about the Word of Wisdom. Is it okay to drink iced coffee? If I'm not LDS, will I go to hell if I drink coffee? Is grandma in hell because though devout, she was English and drank tea pretty near every day of her life?
Pure Land Buddhists think that this is the best it gets (to the pure, all things are pure) and Catholics and Jews seem born to guilt, and Mormons get their own planet, and Sufi's live on their own planet, some of the Christians highlight their differences, some follow The Word to the letter, and all in all, the whole world seems permeated with folks who know in thier heart of hearts that they are right and everybody else is either nuts, or headed for an eternity in hell.
Well, I'm probably going to hell just for posting this. Flame on, a good dose of guilt just might force me to midnight mass in the blizzard :o)
Naw.
Some further information on the subject:
“Handling the Tetragrammaton in English Translations
By Alan Whitby
(Bible Collectors’ World – Jan/Mar 1988)
However, Rotherham was not the first in print with Yahweh. Just one year earlier in 1901* James McSwiney’s translation of the Psalms and Canticles used the form YaHWeh on occasion. If McSwiney should prove to be first this is perhaps a little unfair on Rotherham. His OT translation was already completed by 1894, when the publication of Ginsburg’s Critico-Massoretic Hebrew Text caused him to delay publication to revise the whole work. 11
Since the turn of the century many others have followed these examples. The Colloquial Speech Version (from 1920*) published by the National Adult School Union used Yahweh. So did many translations of portions, such as S. R. Driver’s Jeremiah (1906), Gowen’s Psalms (1930), Oesterley’s Psalms (1939) and Watt’s Genesis (1963). The 1960s saw a number consistently use this form including the Anchor Bible (from 1964) and the popular Jerusalem Bible (1966).
A. B. Traina’s Holy Name Bible (1963) uses Yahweh, and is also consistent in Hebrewizing other names as well. In Traina’s NT (1950*) Jesus is Yahshua. 1979 saw the commencement of Kohlenberger’s NIV Hebrew Interlinear using Yahweh. Additionally, many popular versions that use LORD have chosen Yahweh for Exodus 6 v. 3, including An American Translation (1927*) and the Basic English Bible (1949*).
www.biblecollectors.org/articles/tetragrammaton.htm”
You just ruined a perfectly good thread and I came here to tell you that the Guinness warehouse that burned today was empty...
Praise the... wait. This thread is in bloggers, not the religion forum. Let me just say thank goodness no Guiness was harmed in the making of this thread.
I emptied the place minutes before the fire. It tasted goooood, real gooooood..
Go back and read what I wrote about “brd.” It’s not impossible to pronounce in English, even though it’s “impossible” to pronounce. Ask someone who knows Hebrew, and you’ll find that YHW and HWH are both not possible letter combinations.
Matt 7:6
Of course I still ask for clarification when someone says “next Saturday we'll meet...”. Wait - you mean this coming Saturday or the Saturday after that?
Have a Merry Christmas!
The Johah reference in Matt. with the “3 days and 3 nights”. Okay - I AM going to have to ask my preacher about that one! (Well versed in Greek, etc.)
Fri night and Sat night makes TWO nights!? Obviously I can see the three DAYS. But three nights? Interesting.
What I was responding to was this comment:
“Thus, people can argue between Yahweh and Jehovah, but they are both absolutely impossible.”
Evidently and obviously not. Yahweh is closer than Jehovah but as I said our pronunciation of all Biblical proper names is inaccurate so we use the most common form in our language. This is not a difficult concept.
What this (”It’s not impossible to pronounce in English, even though it’s “impossible” to pronounce.”) means I've no idea; What can be possible to pronounce and impossible to pronounce?
I’m not Catholic but consider THIS a good dose of Mother’s Guilt to go to Mass!!
Oh. Don’t forget the kids. ;)
What’s this thread even about???? I didn’t check...
Didn’t he work with this guy named Abby something?
Awesome list! Where’d you get it?
Don’t forget to get your bonitis cured. :-)
lol. I have it in a file, one of my friends sent it to me, not sure where they got it.
Lost Guiness?
Football players get athlete’s foot, but astronauts get missile toe.
Would "Uh... not quite" ruffled your feathers less?
How about, "True - but not complete." Any better?
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