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    7 PAGAN FESTIVALS WE STILL CELEBRATE TODAY ~ under the guise of Christian celebrations and names.

    52 Then the Jews began to argue among themselves. They said, “How can this man give us his body to eat?” 53 Jesus said, “Believe me when I say that you must eat the body of the Son of Man, and you must drink his blood. If you don’t do this, you have no real life. 54 Those who eat my body and...
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    7 PAGAN FESTIVALS WE STILL CELEBRATE TODAY ~ under the guise of Christian celebrations and names.

    What was the name of this thread? It follows the copycat thesis to the letter, which results in Jesus coming from pagan stories of their gods.
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    7 PAGAN FESTIVALS WE STILL CELEBRATE TODAY ~ under the guise of Christian celebrations and names.

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/24/nazis-run-gerald-steinacher-review https://www.jstor.org/stable/41819509 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/12/02/nazis-on-the-run/
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    7 PAGAN FESTIVALS WE STILL CELEBRATE TODAY ~ under the guise of Christian celebrations and names.

    Historians have long known that relatively few Nazi war criminals faced justice; those tried at the Nuremberg War Crimes Court, and individuals apprehended much later, such as Adolf Eichmann (tried and executed in Israel in 1962) and Klaus Barbie (sentenced in France in 1987 to life...
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    The reason I asked when the physical body leaves our bodies is because I have encountered those...

    The reason I asked when the physical body leaves our bodies is because I have encountered those who claim he would be part of our human waste. gross!!! I figured it is better to head them off at the pass, so to speak.
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    7 PAGAN FESTIVALS WE STILL CELEBRATE TODAY ~ under the guise of Christian celebrations and names.

    Is there a parrell Catholic Bible? Are those translations among the The Word: The New Testament from 26 Translations Paperback by Curtis Vaughan Th.D. (Author) https://archive.org/details/newtestamentfrom00vaug/page/n4/mode/1up https://twitter.com/i/events/1362215983025254406?lang=en...
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    7 PAGAN FESTIVALS WE STILL CELEBRATE TODAY ~ under the guise of Christian celebrations and names.

    "What is the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist? The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist is a central dogma of the Catholic faith: when the priest consecrates bread and wine during the Mass, they are transformed into the literal body and blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ. The...
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    dumb questions I was emailed

    I think of Textual Criticism being a tree. The roots are the original manuscripts, each branch is a city where copies were made, each leaf is a manuscript. As time goes on new branches and leaves are added. Scholars simply compare all the leaves to weed out mistakes, errors in copying.
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    7 PAGAN FESTIVALS WE STILL CELEBRATE TODAY ~ under the guise of Christian celebrations and names.

    Lane McGaughy McGaughy's published dissertation on the use of the Greek verb EINAI ("to be") has been widely recognized for its thoroughness. McGaughy examines Colwell's statistics and finds several of the "exceptions" to his rule that Colwell noted are, in fact, not exceptions at all. Thus...
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    7 PAGAN FESTIVALS WE STILL CELEBRATE TODAY ~ under the guise of Christian celebrations and names.

    Maximilian Zerwick Zerwick's introductory grammar first appeared in Latin in 1944. A revised and expanded edition was published in 1960, and an English translation with further additions followed three years later. Zerwick admits that Colwell has presented "not a few persuasive examples" that...
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    7 PAGAN FESTIVALS WE STILL CELEBRATE TODAY ~ under the guise of Christian celebrations and names.

    Colwell's Rule In 1933, E.C. Colwell published his now famous study of the use of the article with PNs occurring both before and after the verb. Colwell began by identifying a number of PNs that he believed were definite by virtue of the context. He then performed a statistical analysis of...
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    7 PAGAN FESTIVALS WE STILL CELEBRATE TODAY ~ under the guise of Christian celebrations and names.

    "QeoV must then be taken as implying God, in substance and essence, not`o qeoV ,'the Father,' in Person....as in sarx egeneto [John 1:14], sarx expresses that state into which the Divine Word entered by a definite act, so in qeoV hn, qeoV expresses that essence which was His - that He was very...
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    7 PAGAN FESTIVALS WE STILL CELEBRATE TODAY ~ under the guise of Christian celebrations and names.

    THEOS ÊN HO LOGOS. The first task of the translator faced with this clause is to determine the subject. In most sentences or clauses (such as John 1:1b), the noun in the nominative case is the subject. The noun in the accusative case is the direct object. However, in Greek, "copulative"...
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    7 PAGAN FESTIVALS WE STILL CELEBRATE TODAY ~ under the guise of Christian celebrations and names.

    G r a m m a t i c a l A n a l y s i s en arch hn`o logoV, kai`o logoV hn proV ton qeon, kai qeoV hn`o logoV. EN ARCHÊ ÊN hO LOGOS, KAI hO LOGOS ÊN PROS TON THEON, KAI THEOS ÊN hO LOGOS. In [the] beginning was the Word, and the Word was with (the) God, and the Word was God. ARCHÊ...
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    7 PAGAN FESTIVALS WE STILL CELEBRATE TODAY ~ under the guise of Christian celebrations and names.

    "In the beginning" recalls the opening words of Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." The expression does not refer to a particular moment of time but assumes a timeless eternity. "Word" is the Greek logos, which has several meanings. Ordinarily it refers to a...
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    7 PAGAN FESTIVALS WE STILL CELEBRATE TODAY ~ under the guise of Christian celebrations and names.

    C o m m e n t a r y With the possible exception of Genesis 1:1, this verse is the most striking opening of any book of the Bible. Often missed in the various discussions about what John means by this elegant and deceptively simple sentence, is the fact that this verse is poetic. Many...
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    If I have Offended Anyone Here

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    Question for non-JW's

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