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Originally posted by oliveoil
Can a force be lied to?
Can a force speak ?
Can a force be grieved?
Originally posted by miriam0566
Originally posted by oliveoil
Can a force be lied to?
Can a force speak ?
Can a force be grieved?
can a person be poured?
can you be filled with a person?
Originally posted by miriam0566
Originally posted by oliveoil
reply to post by miriam0566
The versions of the bible you use were derived by Westcott and Hort.
WESTCOTT AND HORT were SECRET PRACTITIONERS OF THE OCCULT !!
They were the founders of the Ghost Club.- Read what Duet:18-11 has to say about that.
lol. i dont really care.
anytime a scripture is in doubt i research the original greek anyway.
Except for Christ, no human being has ever directly heard the actual voice of the Father or seen His form and shape (John 1:18; 5:37; 6:46; 1 John 4:12).
So the Word was indeed the God of the Old Testament
Of course, since Jesus came to reveal the Father (Matthew 11:27), the logical conclusion is that the Father was not generally known by those in Old Testament times except for a few of the Hebrew patriarchs and prophets. King David, for example, is one who understood (Acts 2:30).
Partially quoted earlier, Hebrews 1:1-2 states: "God, who at various times and in different ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His [or 'a'] Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds."
In this opening passage of the book of Hebrews the clear implication is that the Father is the moving force behind the whole Old Testament. In context, verse 2 interprets verse 1. Though God the Father is the prime mover behind the Hebrew Bible, it is through Jesus Christ that He created the entire universe.
He dealt with man through the agency of the preexistent Word, Christ.
Elohim is a noun that is plural in form but normally singular in usage—that is, paired with singular verbs—when designating the true God. For a comparable modern expression, consider the term United States. This proper noun is plural in form but singular in usage. It is used with singular verbs. For example, Americans say, "The United States is going to take action," not "The United States are going to take action." The plural form does signify multiple states—but, taken collectively, they are viewed as one nation.
It is the same with Elohim. The word Eloah, meaning "Mighty One," is the singular form. Elohim, meaning "Mighty Ones," is plural. And, indeed, there were two Mighty Ones, the Father and the Word. But, collectively, as Elohim, the two are seen as one God. Elohim said, "Let Us make man in our image, according to Our likeness" (verse 26).
It is also claimed that the Hebrew ‘Elohim’ is a uniplural or collective noun and that such nouns (e.g. the English noun ‘crowd’) often govern singular verbs. This claim contradicts leading Hebrew grammars, which claim that throughout the OT and when referring to the true God, the Hebrew noun 'Elohim' behaves as a singular noun, and governs only singular verbs, singular adjectives and singular pronouns. And only when 'elohim' refers to a number of pagan gods or humans (e.g. judges), that it behaves as a plural noun; and then governs plural verbs, plural adjectives and plural pronouns. So grammatically ‘Elohim’ is never a collective (uniplural) noun. That in reference to the true God, the noun ‘Elohim’ is singular, is well illustrated in Genesis 1:29, where this noun governs the singular pronoun ‘I’.
Originally posted by oliveoil
can a person be poured?
can you be filled with a person?
The Holy Ghost is not a person, He's a Ghost. Boo!
Originally posted by oliveoil
If you read Greek, What original manuscript are you referring to?
Originally posted by Blue_Jay33
One thing I have noticed lately on ATS is a trend to discredit bibles, not just the NWT, that's not the issue. You quote from another of the dozens of online bibles and they get discredited too, minimizing God's word is a lack of faith that he can and has protected it
Originally posted by miriam0566
its why people like oliveoil could honsetly believe that the comma (1 john 5:7,8 KJV) belongs in the bible. nevermind what century it was placed, it agrees with the trinity.
i just find it ironic that people are so quick to label others as brainwashed when they themselves will use everything they can to justify false doctrine.
i guess it really is true, god calls you to his organization, not the other way around
Originally posted by miriam0566
Originally posted by oliveoil
However, I also believe that in some some early printed Greek texts (notably those of Erasmus) and later versions of the Latin Vulgate, and in the King James Version (which I use) All include the Comma.
so a scripture that doesnt appear in any greek manuscripts until the 1500's is "authentic" to you?
bible.org...
Originally posted by Blue_Jay33
One thing about Miriam her knowledge of the bible and doctrine for a 28 year old woman is exceptional, she puts some pastors to shame.
One thing I have noticed lately on ATS is a trend to discredit bibles, not just the NWT, that's not the issue. You quote from another of the dozens of online bibles and they get discredited too, minimizing God's word is a lack of faith that he can and has protected it.
Were all on the same side. We all believe in ONE true G-d. Jahovah , or what ever you think his name is.
Then eventually these people reveal their true selves through their posts, they are dis-info artists working knowing or unknowingly for the dark side.
Originally posted by oliveoil
Originally posted by miriam0566
its why people like oliveoil could honsetly believe that the comma (1 john 5:7,8 KJV) belongs in the bible. nevermind what century it was placed, it agrees with the trinity.
There is over 5300 original Greek manuscripts in existence.
Out of the 5300 original Greek manuscripts only 501 contain John 1:5. Thats 4799 that do not!
Out of that there are 10 confirmed copies that contain the Johannine Comma. and 10 That are at this time unconfirmed
.
Here they are,
Metzger #61, #88m, #221m, # 429;#636,#918,#2318.
The Ottobonianus #629 Bible Society's 4th edition of the Greek New Testament.
D.A Waite #634 and Omega 110.
There is also 1 copy that appears in the margin of #6359 by Holland
How can anyone say that the Comma does not apper in The Original Greek Text is beyond me.
i just find it ironic that people are so quick to label others as brainwashed when they themselves will use everything they can to justify false doctrine.
I guess that the original Greek manuscripts were false
Originally posted by oliveoil
How can anyone say that the Comma does not apper in The Original Greek Text is beyond me.
The Comma Johanneum is a comma (a short clause) contained in most translations of the First Epistle of John published from 1522 until the latter part of the nineteenth century, owing to the widespread use of the third edition of the Textus Receptus (TR) as the sole source for translation. In translations containing the clause, such as the King James Version, 1 John 5:7-8 reads as follows (with the Comma in bold print):
5:7 "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one."
The resulting passage is an explicit reference to the Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
It does not appear in the older Greek manuscripts, nor in the passage as quoted by many of the early Church Fathers. The words apparently crept into the Latin text of the New Testament during the Middle Ages, "[possibly] as one of those medieval glosses but were then written into the text itself by a careless copyist. Erasmus omitted them from his first edition; but when a storm of protest arose because the omission seemed to threaten the doctrine of the Trinity (although that doctrine had in fact been formulated long before the textual variant), he put them back in the third and later editions, whence they also came into the textus receptus, 'the received text'."[1] Modern Bible translations such as the NIV, NASB, ESV, NRSV and others tend to either omit the Comma entirely, or relegate it to the footnotes.
Originally posted by oliveoil
Metzger #61, #88m, #221m, # 429;#636,#918,#2318.
The Ottobonianus #629 Bible Society's 4th edition of the Greek New Testament.
D.A Waite #634 and Omega 110.
Does it really matter when. These are ORIGINAL GREEK MANUSCRIPTS !
Originally posted by oliveoil
There are two types of Greek writings.
Does anyone know what they are?