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    Immortal Soul Doctrine

    other views https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Topical.show/RTD/cgg/ID/18445/Doctrine-Immortality-of-Soul.htm https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Topical.show/RTD/cgg/ID/18445/Doctrine-Immortality-of-Soul.htm https://www.monergism.com/immortality-soul...
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    Immortal Soul Doctrine

    Another viewpoint is, " The origins of the doctrine of the “immortality of the soul” We have seen in the article: “Resurrection or life immediately after the death?” that the Bible clearly and unanimously presents the dead as sleeping and having no consciousness. Just to give again some of the...
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    Immortal Soul Doctrine

    Saying this doctrine comes from Philosphers is irrelant and is nothing more than the copycat thesis which scholars have rejected as hogwash.
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    Immortal Soul Doctrine

    One viewpoint, is " The immortality of the soul is clearly seen in many places in Scripture. For example, in Psalm 23:6 David says, “I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” In Ecclesiastes 12:7 the Preacher mentions two things that happen at death: “The dust returns to the ground it came...
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    Immortal Soul Doctrine

    Do you believe in the Immortal Soul Doctrine?
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    A serious questions for the Jehovah's Witnesses on these threads.

    Jesus taught according to rabbinic styles. Jesus also used rabbinic styles of teaching. Jesus often answered questions by asking them. When the rich young ruler asked Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life while calling Jesus good, Jesus responded by asking, “Why do you call me good” (Lk...
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    A serious questions for the Jehovah's Witnesses on these threads.

    https://www.bible.com/bible/compare/ACT.4.13-20 Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee (The Library of New Testament Studies) Hardcover – November 17, 2011 by Chris Keith
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    A serious questions for the Jehovah's Witnesses on these threads.

    Seneca the Elder (54 B.C.E.-39 C.E.), was a Roman rhetorician and writer, born of a wealthy equestrian family of Cordoba, Hispania. Seneca lived through the reigns of three significant emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula. For our purpose here we are particularly interested in his letters...
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    A serious questions for the Jehovah's Witnesses on these threads.

    2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. Acts 4:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they...
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    John 8:20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come. Acts 5:42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
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    Mark 12:35 And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David? John 7:14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. Luke was a Doctor, Paul studied Theology on Senimary Level. Rest of the...
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    A serious questions for the Jehovah's Witnesses on these threads.

    “The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?”” ‭‭John‬ ‭7:15‬ ‭ We know that there were multiples sects at the time of Jesus’ incarnate life. The Pharisees and the Sadducees were predominantly featured in the Biblical discourse. It is...
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    Luke 4:17-21 New International Version 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom...
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    A serious questions for the Jehovah's Witnesses on these threads.

    Schools in the world of Jesus: Analysing the evidence Pieter J J Botha Neotestamentica Vol. 33, No. 1 (1999), pp. 225-260 (36 pages) Published By: New Testament Society of Southern Africa
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    Acts 19:9 But some of them became stubborn and refused to believe. In front of everyone, they said bad things about the Way. So Paul left these Jews and took the Lord’s followers with him. He went to a place where a man named Tyrannus had a school. There Paul talked with people every day.
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    A serious questions for the Jehovah's Witnesses on these threads.

    The institution known as the "be rav" or "bet rabban" (house of the teacher), or as the "be safra" or "bet sefer" (house of the book), is said to have been originated by Ezra' (459 BCE) and his Great Assembly, who provided a public school in Jerusalem to secure the education of fatherless boys...
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    " Courses and happenings Study Material About Where Did Jesus Go to School? Posted on September 20, 2011 Ray Pritz The New Testament gives us several hints of how a young Jewish child was educated. Paul tried to gain the confidence of an angry crowd in Jerusalem by telling them that he...
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    A serious questions for the Jehovah's Witnesses on these threads.

    " THE SYNAGOGUE SCHOOL Boys and girls went to school in Galilee though boys continued till they were 15 if they displayed unusual ability while the girls were married by that time. Students probably attended school in the synagogue and were taught by the hazzan or a local Torah Teacher. Study...
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    A serious questions for the Jehovah's Witnesses on these threads.

    Romans 8:26 King James Version 26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.