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On Paul's letters what are your favorites?I am going over Daniel and Isaiah, again. And I try to read from Psalms and the Christian letters every day too.
On Paul's letters what are your favorites?I am going over Daniel and Isaiah, again. And I try to read from Psalms and the Christian letters every day too.
Yes I believe that's the one.I'll check out Luther. Was the Paul film Paul apostle of christ or another one.
It's incredible how these pontificators through time have found support from sponsers. There surely is a higher conspiracy!Started the clementine recognitions last night apparently it and homilies are two variants of an older source text. Don't know much about it but a lot of modern anti Paul judaizers seem to base there views partly on it as well as use it to argue the nonsensical claim that Paul was Simon Magus 😆 its really long so may take a while.
You love it! I can take in large chunks of information but can no longer write a thesis! You have been blessed with an incredible appetite for the academic. I am gorging and absorbing with the hope we get the privilege of using it in Zion!Started the clementine recognitions last night apparently it and homilies are two variants of an older source text. Don't know much about it but a lot of modern anti Paul judaizers seem to base there views partly on it as well as use it to argue the nonsensical claim that Paul was Simon Magus 😆 its really long so may take a while.
Hungers hard to satiate still have much to learn. Never hesitate to share or weigh in when you can. 🙂You love it! I can take in large chunks of information but can no longer write a thesis! You have been blessed with an incredible appetite for the academic. I am gorging and absorbing with the hope we get the privilege of using it in Zion!
Does Josephus discuss how animals had the facility of speech back then and the ability to reason on the spiritual plane?Was reading Antiquities of the Jews and found similar events so far in reading regarding the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint.
For example, according to Josephus, before Adam and Eve sinned, all animals spoke of the same language—that’s why the serpent can talk to Eve—which was also written in the Book of Lamech if I remembered correctly. Also, according to Josephus, Seth was born when Adam reached 230 years of his life, similar to what is written in the Septuagint.
The book Antiquities of the Jews Book 1 Chapter 1 pr. 4 reads:Does Josephus discuss how animals had the facility of speech back then and the ability to reason on the spiritual plane?
Just a speculation, but could it be the reason that Noah was able to communicate with the animals back then and have them in the ark, and even command the birds to fly to look for a land?4 God therefore commanded that Adam and his wife should eat of all the rest of the plants, but to abstain from the tree of knowledge; and foretold to them, that if they touched it, it would prove their destruction. But while all the living creatures had one language*
*Hence it appears, that Josephus thought several, at least, of the brute animals, particularly the serpent, could speak before the fall. And I think few of the more perfect kinds of those animals want the organs of speech at this day. Many inducements there are also to a notion, that the present state they are in, is not their original state; and that their capacities have been once much greater than we now see them, and are capable of being restored to their former condition. But as to this most ancient, and authentic, and probably allegorical account of that grand affair of the fall of our first parents, I have somewhat more to say in way of conjecture, but being only a conjecture, I omit it: only thus far, that the imputation of the sin of our first parents to their posterity, any further than as some way the cause or occasion of man's mortality, seems almost entirely groundless; and that both man, and the other subordinate creatures, are hereafter to be delivered from the curse then brought upon them, and at last to be delivered from that bondage of corruption, Romans 8:19-22.]
Job 12:6-9 "Ask please the animals.....do they not know that Jehovah has done this..." I used to ask Jah to get the local crows to sit on the roofs of the prospective interested ones....titter....I used to also ask if my hair could grow back....Long time back ...hee hee but interestingly since maturity my nasal and ear hair is doing very well..but not on the solar panel...The book Antiquities of the Jews Book 1 Chapter 1 pr. 4 reads:
Just a speculation, but could it be the reason that Noah was able to communicate with the animals back then and have them in the ark, and even command the birds to fly to look for a land?
Thanks for the scriptures MickHewitt. Even animals are aware of Jehovah’s presence or glory.Job 12:6-9 "Ask please the animals.....do they not know that Jehovah has done this..." I used to ask Jah to get the local crows to sit on the roofs of the prospective interested ones....titter....I used to also ask if my hair could grow back....Long time back ...hee hee but interestingly since maturity my nasal and ear hair is doing very well..but not on the solar panel...
We all tried everything to get a bible study...didn't we... I do miss them bro's and sis and the happy times on the ministry....Our laughter would echo through the estates......Back to Josephus and Hislop they got alot right but........Thank Christ for scriptures because it's the only golden truth on earth. Lovely stuff WhiteStone.Thanks for the scriptures MickHewitt. Even animals are aware of Jehovah’s presence or glory.
Did the local crows sit on the roofs as you prayed?
Back then on the memorial invitation campaign first year of the pandemic with my friend, it was really hot outside as it is afternoon. Before going out, I prayed that it be a cloudy day, an hour later it did become cloudy but then later rained heavily.😂 We were able to finish the work that afternoon but have our clothes wet.
You are blessed GodPill, what an appetite you have. Thanks for always sharing your knowledge.A thread for mentioning and/or discussing any books on the bible I'm mostly focusing on non watchtower publications but old WT books and literature are good too as I'm always eager to hear brothers and sisters insights. Any recommendations are very welcome. 😊 The past year I've read
On the ancient front
Justin Martyr's Apologies and dialogue with Trypho
Iraneus Against Heresies
Eusbesius Church History
1/4 of Josephus antiquities of the jews
Tertullians treatise on idolatry
Philo's treatise on the giants
On the modern books front
Psalms 82 by Brian Godawa (highly derrivative content and preterist view of revelation its not devoid of value but fictions clearly his strong suit)
The Unseen Realm and Reversing Hermon by Michael Heiser (insightful to those not already familiar with his work 1st or second hand I can't fathom how he remained a trinitarian over the years)
The Great Angel a Study of Israel's Second God by Margaret Barker (a rich and dense read though Margaret's feminism biases her work occasionally)
Right now I'm 1/3 way through Margaret's book temple mysticism
On spiritual warfare front (the theology of these are very mixed bags roughly half utility half junk)
The Water Realm by Uzor Ndekweu
The Queen of the Coast, Defeating the Python Spirit, and Monitoring Spirits by Prayer M. Madueke. 1/5 through his book on Leviathan.
I've heard some on the forum mention the commentary on James that might be a good place to start anything bible adjacent is good.