Very nice..what if the term in the text was replaced mentally with a modern term like, the message or even the term, the thought or the idea acures to me?
I have started to use this principle in reading the text & to me the text seem to have more of a ensightment to what is being exsperienced by the writer & what he is trying to convey to the reader.
Notice something about watchtower-mentality? Distorted perception of reality.
Millions of people had been given the gift of life because of donated blood and organs, I'll bet our heavenly father is well proud of what we are doing and that we are not burdened with perfection and able to break rules, just like he designed evolution to do just that, break rules to survive better.
This video is not about watchtower blood doctrine and comments about this have no place here.
and also "Jehovah" is the Latinized and Anglicized form of the Divine Name, that properly pronounces the "J" in English) The point is that Christ and the early Disciples quoted and used that Name and would NOT have followed the Jewish superstition at the time, that Jehovah's Name was too holy to say out loud. But would quote it and use it, like Moses and Isaiah freely did. Jesus and His Apostles made the Divine Name manifest too, especially when quoting the Holy Hebrew Scriptures.
The Divine Name of "Yehowah" in Hebrew would logically have been uttered by His own Messiah on earth, especially when His Messiah read and quoted the "Old Testament". (And as for the term to use in an English translation, the form "Jehovah" is better than the less accurate term "Yahweh", which is used mostly by Higher Critics and Liberals, but rather "Jehovah" is more accurate and consistent, since with 4 consonants the name would have had THREE syllables, not just two,
in Hebrew characters, inserted within the Greek Text of the "Old Testament"! The point is that Christ would NOT have substituted Jehovah's name with the generic "Lord", when Christ was quoting His own Father's original Holy Scriptures.
when quoting from the Hebrew "Old Testament" Scriptures, Christ and the Apostles came across the Divine name (which would be YeHoWaH in Hebrew), and they would use it, even from the Greek Septuagint, as discovered evidence in the 1960's has shown. (Places such as Psalm 110 or Isaiah 54:13) There is a general warrant, from internal Biblical evidence, and from un-earthed Greek Septuagint evidence, the Greek translation of the "Old Testament" writings, that actually contained the Divine Tetragramm,
the Divine Name, in the Anglicized form "Jehovah", is another improvement. Throughout the Hebrew Scriptures. And even in the Greek "New Testament", in accordance largly with the reputable "J" Documents, of the New Testament in Hebrew. And contrary to what ignorant negative reviewers say about there being no manuscript warrant to put the name "Jehovah" in the "New Testament", bear in my mind that when quoting from the Hebrew "Old Testament" Scriptures, Christ and the Apostles came across it...
that's an emotional anti-Biblical human nature (not faithful) response and attitude. People like you LOVE to ignore the fact that many people have died and gotten horribly sick FROM taking blood transfusions. (Vindicating the witnesses, but most people close their eyes to those facts.)
Blood transfusions are UNNATURAL. Yes, I know that some people are sincere about it. But doctors have been sloppy for decades, thinking that blood transfusions were some peannut butter thing to spread around.
A bible can be made to say whatever belief-engineers want it to say. I have seen a prank bible interpretation go round a congregation infecting many people before someone high enough in the church had enough authority to terminate this program.
Following the bible didn't help the people who wrote it, they are all dead, long ago never to return. This is a book written by 100% dead people. What can they know about our life? They are stone dead, like every single one of us will be too.
Again, JWs did not write "no blood" in the Bible. The Lord did. So your problem (really) is NOT with Jehovah's witnesses. But with Jehovah Himself. The Lord is real, sonny. But for the hypocrites in pagan Christendom, saying they believe, but only at their own worldly convenience. So it's whatever. Life's tough. Get over it. But JWs are the ONLY ONES who REALLY stick to the Bible, as far as separation and sanctification, from the corrupt world. Politics, idolatry, paganism etc. Just the facts.
Whatever is printed in this book written by dead people, there will be organised religion interpreting it the way that suits them. In the case of a certain religious following, it will be whatever serves the growth of the organisation itself, rather than enriching the lives of the people in it.
We all know of 'jobs-worth types' who are pedantically following rule-books.
There is a saying: rules are for adherence of fools & guidance of wise
The name Jehovah CLEARLY appeared in the Hebrew text by your own admission. By the time the Greek Int translated the Hebrew scriptures into their Greek language, they had changed the Divine Name to LORD or LORD GOD. This occurred hundreds of years after Christ. Therefore, the correct rendering of the text would be the original, JEHOVAH, not LORD GOD. Are you that misinformed about the matter?
What not follow Christ's example found at John 17:26, 17:6? Christ was quoted as saying, "Let your NAME be sanctified." Mt 6:9 Ps 83:18 - whose NAME is Jehovah
heresy, all you are doing by regurgitating the same old watchtower propaganda time and time again is allow good people reading it to hone their inherent bullshit detectors.
So will you answer the question and follow the example given by Jesus?
How did JESUS address our heavenly father? (i.e. in prayer)
... either that, or they will of course argue the toss, that your own understanding is out of harmony with what the Bible actually teaches, even in very minor areas. I understand. I've had some very tedious conversations.
Or to be slightly more accurate: "...out of harmony with (how our 'faithful slave' interprets) what the bible actually teaches..."
'Faithful slave' is of course the fancy name the governing body has given for: 'mass-hypnosis'
And to complete the circular-reasoning loop enjoyed by the cult member: a verse out the bible is taken out of context to 'authorise' this mass-hypnosis.
It's fascinating to watch it face2face, the way a watchtower follower 'sees' different words in a KJV bible!
Beliefs aside for a moment.. it's what ordinary people do thinking they are doing the 'right' thing, i.e. parents killing their children by refusing medical treatment.
Please take a look at my recent video about how easily normal everyday people in real life can 'go-with-the-flow', get carried along doing what they think is right and then find themselves doing atrocities.
But I studied this matter and other issues over the years. "abstain from blood" says what it says. With NO silly LOOP-HOLES in there about well aaaahh duhhh "but not if it can save a life" uuuhh. Why would the Lord (I know you say you're an atheist now, but I'm saying hypothetically) why would God put it in all three main covenants (pre-Jewish, Jewish, and post-Jewish, Noah, Moses, and Paul) if it was not a big deal issue????????? WAKE UP. How did "abstain from blood" get in there in Acts then??
Just like burnt sugar can be marketed as "the only real cola: COCA Cola", exactly the same had been done with the 'presence' all good people have being close to god.
God 'branded' with a brand-name, marketed like a product using a pyramid scheme and recruiting like a chain letter.
Is the only reason you drink Coca Cola is because 'it's real thing'?
I think the debate will always go on whether can we can (or can't) consistently tell any difference between cola / coca-cola. Meanwhile it's human nature to desire to name.
Interestingly, the thing that gave cocacola its name, is no longer present in it.
A striking similarity is that Christ has been removed from 'true' christianity. The followers call themselves the 'only true christians'.
Like taking the beef out a burger and still calling it a 'Big Mac!
Further to my earlier comment about minority organised religions removing Christ out of Christianity to serve an organisation...
Christ was & is all about opening up God for everyone, and not just for an elitist few.
It's human nature to desire to "name things" and it's typically very american to interpret things over-literally. It stands to reason that it would be an american organised religion that will interpret the holy bible so over-literally they completely miss the message in it
Very nice..what if the term in the text was replaced mentally with a modern term like, the message or even the term, the thought or the idea acures to me?
I have started to use this principle in reading the text & to me the text seem to have more of a ensightment to what is being exsperienced by the writer & what he is trying to convey to the reader.
clnmyjts 1 year ago
Humanityandhistory please answer this question:
Who is our God or Jesus's father?
SuperGirl1649 2 years ago
You have no life hu?
AmazingAussie 2 years ago
Notice something about watchtower-mentality? Distorted perception of reality.
Millions of people had been given the gift of life because of donated blood and organs, I'll bet our heavenly father is well proud of what we are doing and that we are not burdened with perfection and able to break rules, just like he designed evolution to do just that, break rules to survive better.
This video is not about watchtower blood doctrine and comments about this have no place here.
humanityandhistory 3 years ago
and also "Jehovah" is the Latinized and Anglicized form of the Divine Name, that properly pronounces the "J" in English) The point is that Christ and the early Disciples quoted and used that Name and would NOT have followed the Jewish superstition at the time, that Jehovah's Name was too holy to say out loud. But would quote it and use it, like Moses and Isaiah freely did. Jesus and His Apostles made the Divine Name manifest too, especially when quoting the Holy Hebrew Scriptures.
MuscleSculptor 3 years ago 3
How did JESUS address our heavenly father? (i.e. in prayer)
humanityandhistory 3 years ago
The Divine Name of "Yehowah" in Hebrew would logically have been uttered by His own Messiah on earth, especially when His Messiah read and quoted the "Old Testament". (And as for the term to use in an English translation, the form "Jehovah" is better than the less accurate term "Yahweh", which is used mostly by Higher Critics and Liberals, but rather "Jehovah" is more accurate and consistent, since with 4 consonants the name would have had THREE syllables, not just two,
MuscleSculptor 3 years ago
How did JESUS address our heavenly father? (i.e. in prayer)
humanityandhistory 3 years ago
in Hebrew characters, inserted within the Greek Text of the "Old Testament"! The point is that Christ would NOT have substituted Jehovah's name with the generic "Lord", when Christ was quoting His own Father's original Holy Scriptures.
MuscleSculptor 3 years ago
How did JESUS address our heavenly father? (i.e. in prayer)
humanityandhistory 3 years ago
when quoting from the Hebrew "Old Testament" Scriptures, Christ and the Apostles came across the Divine name (which would be YeHoWaH in Hebrew), and they would use it, even from the Greek Septuagint, as discovered evidence in the 1960's has shown. (Places such as Psalm 110 or Isaiah 54:13) There is a general warrant, from internal Biblical evidence, and from un-earthed Greek Septuagint evidence, the Greek translation of the "Old Testament" writings, that actually contained the Divine Tetragramm,
MuscleSculptor 3 years ago
How did JESUS address our heavenly father? (i.e. in prayer)
humanityandhistory 3 years ago
the Divine Name, in the Anglicized form "Jehovah", is another improvement. Throughout the Hebrew Scriptures. And even in the Greek "New Testament", in accordance largly with the reputable "J" Documents, of the New Testament in Hebrew. And contrary to what ignorant negative reviewers say about there being no manuscript warrant to put the name "Jehovah" in the "New Testament", bear in my mind that when quoting from the Hebrew "Old Testament" Scriptures, Christ and the Apostles came across it...
MuscleSculptor 3 years ago
How does branding a god and marketing it through a pyramid scheme in any way improve inter-faith relations and promote religious tolerance?
Americans in their insular arrogance are not satisfied with marketing cola worldwide as COCA cola, they have to try and do it with god as well.
Americans take things far too literally, they cannot grasp the concept of "in the name of god", they think it's a brand name.
Americans create god in their own image. The god of marketing and brand image
humanityandhistory 3 years ago
that's an emotional anti-Biblical human nature (not faithful) response and attitude. People like you LOVE to ignore the fact that many people have died and gotten horribly sick FROM taking blood transfusions. (Vindicating the witnesses, but most people close their eyes to those facts.)
Blood transfusions are UNNATURAL. Yes, I know that some people are sincere about it. But doctors have been sloppy for decades, thinking that blood transfusions were some peannut butter thing to spread around.
MuscleSculptor 3 years ago
A bible can be made to say whatever belief-engineers want it to say. I have seen a prank bible interpretation go round a congregation infecting many people before someone high enough in the church had enough authority to terminate this program.
Following the bible didn't help the people who wrote it, they are all dead, long ago never to return. This is a book written by 100% dead people. What can they know about our life? They are stone dead, like every single one of us will be too.
humanityandhistory 3 years ago
@humanityandhistory
"Following the bible didn't help the people who wrote it,"
From this I take it you do not believe the bible to be a book inspired by God, the creator of everything?
Then I have 2 questions for you that are puzzling me...
Why are you implying that the Hebrew YHWH should be translated to the Greek Kyrios if you don't even care what the bible says anyway?
Why are you using Greek translations of the Old Testament which was written in Hebrew while we have the dead sea scrolls?
Uenbg 2 years ago
Again, JWs did not write "no blood" in the Bible. The Lord did. So your problem (really) is NOT with Jehovah's witnesses. But with Jehovah Himself. The Lord is real, sonny. But for the hypocrites in pagan Christendom, saying they believe, but only at their own worldly convenience. So it's whatever. Life's tough. Get over it. But JWs are the ONLY ONES who REALLY stick to the Bible, as far as separation and sanctification, from the corrupt world. Politics, idolatry, paganism etc. Just the facts.
MuscleSculptor 3 years ago
"not write "no blood" in the Bible. The Lord did"
Whatever is printed in this book written by dead people, there will be organised religion interpreting it the way that suits them. In the case of a certain religious following, it will be whatever serves the growth of the organisation itself, rather than enriching the lives of the people in it.
We all know of 'jobs-worth types' who are pedantically following rule-books.
There is a saying: rules are for adherence of fools & guidance of wise
humanityandhistory 3 years ago
The name Jehovah CLEARLY appeared in the Hebrew text by your own admission. By the time the Greek Int translated the Hebrew scriptures into their Greek language, they had changed the Divine Name to LORD or LORD GOD. This occurred hundreds of years after Christ. Therefore, the correct rendering of the text would be the original, JEHOVAH, not LORD GOD. Are you that misinformed about the matter?
HeresyB12 3 years ago
Why not follow christ's example. How did christ address our heavenly father?
humanityandhistory 3 years ago
What not follow Christ's example found at John 17:26, 17:6? Christ was quoted as saying, "Let your NAME be sanctified." Mt 6:9 Ps 83:18 - whose NAME is Jehovah
HeresyB12 3 years ago
heresy, all you are doing by regurgitating the same old watchtower propaganda time and time again is allow good people reading it to hone their inherent bullshit detectors.
So will you answer the question and follow the example given by Jesus?
How did JESUS address our heavenly father? (i.e. in prayer)
humanityandhistory 3 years ago
I'm assuming it's JWs who say you don't read the Bible ?
beardfreak1969 3 years ago
"I'm assuming it's JWs who say you don't read the Bible ? "
In a way, yes, because members of bible-based high control groups (such as the watchtower church) are programmed to respond with this claim.
humanityandhistory 3 years ago
... either that, or they will of course argue the toss, that your own understanding is out of harmony with what the Bible actually teaches, even in very minor areas. I understand. I've had some very tedious conversations.
beardfreak1969 3 years ago
Or to be slightly more accurate: "...out of harmony with (how our 'faithful slave' interprets) what the bible actually teaches..."
'Faithful slave' is of course the fancy name the governing body has given for: 'mass-hypnosis'
And to complete the circular-reasoning loop enjoyed by the cult member: a verse out the bible is taken out of context to 'authorise' this mass-hypnosis.
It's fascinating to watch it face2face, the way a watchtower follower 'sees' different words in a KJV bible!
humanityandhistory 3 years ago
Beliefs aside for a moment.. it's what ordinary people do thinking they are doing the 'right' thing, i.e. parents killing their children by refusing medical treatment.
Please take a look at my recent video about how easily normal everyday people in real life can 'go-with-the-flow', get carried along doing what they think is right and then find themselves doing atrocities.
humanityandhistory 3 years ago
love the example love itttttttt
Jwriter4 3 years ago
But I studied this matter and other issues over the years. "abstain from blood" says what it says. With NO silly LOOP-HOLES in there about well aaaahh duhhh "but not if it can save a life" uuuhh. Why would the Lord (I know you say you're an atheist now, but I'm saying hypothetically) why would God put it in all three main covenants (pre-Jewish, Jewish, and post-Jewish, Noah, Moses, and Paul) if it was not a big deal issue????????? WAKE UP. How did "abstain from blood" get in there in Acts then??
sweetmikser 3 years ago
Just like burnt sugar can be marketed as "the only real cola: COCA Cola", exactly the same had been done with the 'presence' all good people have being close to god.
God 'branded' with a brand-name, marketed like a product using a pyramid scheme and recruiting like a chain letter.
Is the only reason you drink Coca Cola is because 'it's real thing'?
humanityandhistory 3 years ago
I drink Dr.Pepper because of it's 23 wonderful, flavorful ingredients.
I am just joking around, I do believe that your video is of good enough quality and insight to remain as a video response to my video.
christopher
james3v6 3 years ago
I think the debate will always go on whether can we can (or can't) consistently tell any difference between cola / coca-cola. Meanwhile it's human nature to desire to name.
Interestingly, the thing that gave cocacola its name, is no longer present in it.
A striking similarity is that Christ has been removed from 'true' christianity. The followers call themselves the 'only true christians'.
Like taking the beef out a burger and still calling it a 'Big Mac!
humanityandhistory 3 years ago
Further to my earlier comment about minority organised religions removing Christ out of Christianity to serve an organisation...
Christ was & is all about opening up God for everyone, and not just for an elitist few.
It's human nature to desire to "name things" and it's typically very american to interpret things over-literally. It stands to reason that it would be an american organised religion that will interpret the holy bible so over-literally they completely miss the message in it
humanityandhistory 3 years ago
Amos 5:1
Deuteronomy 10:17
Ezekiel 22:28
humanityandhistory 3 years ago