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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2013 6:38:20 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2013 8:08:51 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Aug 2, 2013 7:10:17 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2014 9:08:47 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Jan 18, 2014 7:58:06 GMT -5
# QUESTION Why do so-called "christians" not pronounce God's name? >> MANMADE TRADITION Catholic Directive >> {quote} "in accordance with immemorial TRADITION [...] the name of Almighty God [...] is to rendered into any given vernacular by a word equivalent in meaning [to LORD]" {end quote CAPs mine} {quote article #3} "Avoiding pronoucing the tetragrammaton of the name of God on the part of the Church has therefore its own ground. Apart from a motive of A PURELY PHILOGOGICAL order, there is also that of remaining faithful the Churches TRADITION [...] {end quote} source(s) Papal directive: Prot. N. 213/08/L old.usccb.org/liturgy/NameOfGod.pdf>> GREED, IGNORANCE OR SUPERSTITION Jeová dentro do Judaísmo e do Cristianismo (Jehovah in Judaism and Christianity), by Assis Brasil: {quote} “The name of God was removed, either because of superstition . . . , ulterior motives, or a desire to exalt the names of Jesus and his mother, Mary.” {end quote} >> FALSE TRINITARIAN TEACHINGS To quote one misguided "christian": "We believe Jesus is God, so using Jesus' name IS using God's name" To quote Jesus Christ "Our Father in the heaven, let YOUR name be sanctified" Notice Jesus didn't say "my" or "OUR"...name. * >> LACK OF RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION Most so-called "christians" simply haven't given the matter much thought. They don't use God's name because some do not know God HAS a personal name and those that do know, have not studied scripture and do not know how important that name is. They are unaware of the central role God's name has in scripture - most do not know it appears over 7, 000 times in the bible and their teachers have inculcated the idea that questions about the original pronunciation justifies it's total irradication from both scritpure and the prayers.
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2014 14:10:15 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Nov 20, 2014 23:40:52 GMT -5
CONTRADICTION
CATHOLIC RULE: CONGREGATIO DE CULTU DIVINO ET DSCIPLINA SACRAMENTORUM Prot. N. 213/08/L
"...in songs and prayers the name of God in the form of the tetragrammaton YHWH is NEITHER TO BE USED OR PRONOUNCED" old.usccb.org/liturgy/NameOfGod.pdf
BIBLE RULE I will announce your NAME to my brothers. In the midst of the Church, I will praise you.” Hebrews 2:12 DOUAY-RHEIMES
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Post by Admin on Feb 18, 2015 13:25:00 GMT -5
**DETAILS**
Catholics and Jehovah's Witnesses both claim to follow the bible, however there are marked differences between both groups.
*Catholics have a human leader (They call him their Pope "Father") JW only recognise Jesus as their leader (Mat 23:10) ; and call no human their spiritual "Father" (Pope).
*Catholics believe their imperfect human leaders can "add" to inspired scriptures and that the bible is not enough to know God's will completely (they call this rejecting " sola scriptura") JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES believe the the written word of God (the bible) enable humans to be "completely equipted" and cannot be improved on (2 Tim 3:16)
*Catholics use a lot of idols in their worship; they venerate the cross and pray kneeling before statues JW reject the use of idols in their worship (1 Cor 1:14)
*Catholics have a clergy/laity class of ministers that are forbidden to marry JW consider all their members ministers; marriage is forbidden for no catagory of JWs (Matthew 23:9); .
*Catholics have numerous "saints" which they believe can intercede for humans Jehovah's Witnesses believe JESUS alone is the mediator between God and man. They never pray to anyone but JEHOVAH.
*Catholics rarely refer to God by his personal NAME (Yawheh/Jehovah) in fact the Divine name of God is officially BANNED from all Catholic public prayer and services; The Jehovah's Witnesses believe that God's name should be Sanctified, honoured and praised at every opportunity (Math 6:9)
*Catholics believe Jesus to be BOTH Almighty God and Almighty God's son while Jehovah's Witnesses believe Jesus to be THE SON OF GOD (Luke 3:21-22)
*Catholics believe in a TRINITY (three Gods in one) while JW believe there to be only One True God and Creator (Deut 6:4)
*Catholics believe God tortures the wicked forever in HELLFIRE JW believe God is love and that eternal burning in hell is not a biblical teaching (Jer 7:21)
*Catholics believe all good people will spend eternity with God in HEAVEN Jehovah's Witnesses believe "the meek shall inherit the EARTH" (Matthew 5:3 )
*Catholics generally leave it to their "ordained" clergy to PREACH the gospel Jehovah's Witnesses are well known for their public ministry (Math 28:19:20)
*Catholics teach the "immortality of the SOUL" Jehovah's Witnesses believe the soul can be destroyed (Matthew 10:28 .)
*The Catholic religion has not officially stated that participating in any wars is contrary to Christian principles Jehovah's Witnesses insist on remaining politically neurtral and do not fight or support any of this world's wars (John 15:19)
*Catholics have many pagan rituals incorporated into their religious rituals Jehovah's Witnesess reject all celebrations and ceremonies with pagain origins (2 Cor 6:15)
*Catholics (like most mainstream "Christians") have no formal system to ensure their churches are free from members that are unscriptural. Jehovah's Witnesses apply the bible principle of removing unrependent members that insist on living contrary to scriptural norms (1 Cor 6: 9, 10)
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Post by Admin on Jan 4, 2017 16:34:08 GMT -5
History testifies that far from "giving us the bible" the Catholic church did everything in its power to see the holy scriptures were kept away from people and accessible in a dead language to a chosen few.
The priceless Codex Sinaiticus was being used my monks to kindle fires and would no doubt have all gone up in flames had Tischendorf not saved them. So much for safekeeping the bible!
Copies and translations that were made were more often than not DESPITE, not because of Church authorities and we only have the bible because honest men and women were willing to risk their lives and face the wrath of the church in order to keep it alive and get it into the hands of those that had a right to read it.
Hunting translators like dogs and executing bible readers (including ordinary working men and women) like the vilest of criminals, no single organization on earth has put forth more effort to ensure the bible is read by as few people as humanly possible and just because Catholic authorities eventually bowed to the will of the masses and crumbled under the pressure of the printing press it does not make it the champion of biblical production. Far from it, if the dark ages hadn't given way to the likes of Tyndale, Wycliffe and other heros of history, there would be three copies of the holy scriptures in Greek or Latin locked in a Vatican safe somewhere and which a fire or some other misfortune would have eventually destroyed leaving mankind all the poorer but the Church more than content with a job well done.
Catholics can spin and re-write history as much as they like but there are the graves of honest men and women all over Europe that testify to her "love" of the bible.
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Post by Admin on Sept 25, 2017 7:25:50 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Sept 26, 2017 15:01:26 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Oct 14, 2017 7:22:47 GMT -5
Did the church really safeguard the bible for us?
"There, in a dark closet, she found a Syriac manuscript. According to her own account, “it had a forbidding look, for it was very dirty, and its leaves were nearly all stuck together through their having remained unturned” for centuries. It was a palimpsest manuscript of which the original text had been erased and the pages rewritten with a Syriac text about female saints. However, Agnes spotted some of the writing underneath and the words “of Matthew,” “of Mark,” or “of Luke” at the top. What she had in her hands was an almost complete Syriac codex of the four Gospels! Scholars now believe that this codex was written in the late fourth century."
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