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    The answer of hell and its origins

    Answering this argument will require an in-depth examination of the definition and identification of "count" nouns as well as the way words convey meaning (lexical semantics). For readers not wishing to plumb these particular depths, please refer to the summary, below. A detailed response to...
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    This argument is essentially the same one made by the WT, namely: "Someone who is "with" another person cannot be the same as that other person (SYBT, p. 27), though Mr. Stafford has stated it in more precise terms. As I have written previously (see here), the "logic of pros," as Mr. Stafford...
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    Don Hartley One of the possible objections to Wallace's advocacy of qualitativeness as by far the most likely semantic force (apart from a concurrent definite or indefinite nuance) is that most of the examples he provides are "mass" nouns. Mass nouns are those that cannot be semantically...
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    Dixon's statistical methodology, unlike Colwells', was to begin with anarthrous PNs (as opposed to only examining those PNs that were definite), and determine the semantic force of each. His statistical analysis substantiates Harner's findings: "When the anarthrous predicate nominative...
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    Harner continues: Thus, Harner says that not only is John attributing the nature of THEOS to the LOGOS, but emphasizes that nature by placing THEOS at the head of the clause. The emphasis of THEOS would seem unaccountable if John intended an indefinite nuance, but is perfectly understandable...
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    Note here that Harner equates a definite semantic force in a pre-verbal PN without the article to an articular noun. He sees both forms as examples of a convertible proposition. This is the major point of contention between scholars who regard THEOS in 1:1c as definite as opposed to those who...
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    Harner stresses that when considering whether a pre-verbal predicate noun is definite, indefinite, or qualitative, it is important to consider how the writer might have expressed his intentions using another, and possibly less ambiguous, syntax as well as what he actually wrote. Thus, with John...
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    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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    In fact, this one mention of "class" is the only time Zerwick may be inferred to understand indefiniteness to be present in an anarthrous noun at all. His entire discussion of the non-use of the article centers on the qualitative aspects ascribed to the subject. Thus, for Zerwick, nouns are...
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    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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    "Publishers should deal with employees, contributors, advertisers, and vendors in a fair and open manner. In employment, racial, gender, disability or age discrimination and sexual harassment must not be permitted." https://www.evangelicalpress.com/about-epa/code-of-ethics/...
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    https://healingandrevival.com/BioSWigglesworth.htm http://www.smithwigglesworth.com/ Books https://revival-books.com/ Based on the links and my first post, He does come under discipline of the church to step down for serious sexual sin.
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    Smith Wigglesworth taught several false doctrines: • All sickness is proof of the presence of the devil. This leaves no room for God’s purposes in suffering (2 Corinthians 1:8–9; Hebrews 12:6). • Illness and disease are linked to personal sin. This ignores Jesus’ teaching on the subject (John...
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    Smith Wigglesworth (1859—1947) was a British preacher who was influential in the early Pentecostal movement. Wigglesworth, along with Charles Parham in the U.S., was one of the first preachers to espouse and practice the teachings of Pentecostalism, particularly faith healing and the gift of...
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    I am mad the police did not stop the shooting by putting him under psychological investigation like we do in the USA. googled Jehovah witness attacked 2023 world wide, that shooting is all that shows up.
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    https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/europe/hamburg-germany-shooting-intl/index.html google who was the shooter Hamburg shooting most sites are not loading https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/deadly-shooting-at-hamburg-jehovahs-witnesses-hall-leaves-seven-dead...
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    google christian churches attacked news 2023 https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2023/january/christian-persecution-2023-countries-open-doors-watch-list.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/31/india-chhattisgarh-christians-violence-attacks/...
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    The answer of hell and its origins

    Hebrews 9:27 King James Version 27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: After Jesus's Resurrection, this text does not allow a sleep peroid before the judgment.
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    The Armenian genocide was the systematic killing and deportation of Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire. In 1915, during World War I, leaders of the Turkish government set in motion a plan to expel and massacre Armenians. By the early 1920s, when the genocide finally ended, between...
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    https://www.watchtowerlies.com/jehovah_s_witnesses_leaders_supported_hitler_and_the_nazi_regime.html