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Mar 7, 2016 12:06:07 GMT -5
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Mar 26, 2016 0:52:25 GMT -5
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Jun 6, 2018 8:43:14 GMT -5
Post by Admin on Jun 6, 2018 8:43:14 GMT -5
QUESTIONS: Did Jehovah's Witnesses worship Jesus prior to 1954?No, Jehovah's Witneeses have never believed Jesus to be Almighty God and have, and continue to render worship to Jehovah alone as the Creator. That said, their publications in the past have , by failing to properly rendering the Greek word pros·ky·ne′o in relation to Jesus as "obeisance/hommage", rather than " worship" did not accurately communicate their historic position in this regard. PROSKYNEOPrior to January 1st 1954 Jehovah's Witness did not fully understand that the word Greek word “ pros·ky·ne′o" is properly rendered - according to the context (“do obeisance” pay homage, bow down). As a result, it was systematically rendered "worship" in the society's publications regardless of whether it was applied to Jesus or Jehovah. A fuller understanding lead to a revision in rendition, clarifying their historic position that worship belonged exclusively to Jehovah and "obeisance" to Jesus (see (John 9: 38; Philipians 2: 10). Further reading jehovah.to/xlation/wo.htmlonlytruegod.org/defense/proskyneo_worship.htmHere is a related post I wrote earlier: Did Jesus accept worship from his followers?debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=842405#842405
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Jun 6, 2018 9:06:41 GMT -5
Post by Admin on Jun 6, 2018 9:06:41 GMT -5
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Jun 6, 2018 9:06:55 GMT -5
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Jun 6, 2018 9:08:33 GMT -5
Post by Admin on Jun 6, 2018 9:08:33 GMT -5
Does Luke say the Apostles never left Jerusalem in the peroid between the resurrection and Christs Ascention, contradicting Matthew?
No, Luke at no time says the Apostles did nkt leave Jerusalem. Jesus did give thm an instruction to "stay in the city until you are clothed with power" but this is linked with his promise of the holy spirit. So the implication is that that when it was time for that promise to be kept, it would indeed be in Jerusalem that the Apostles were to wait for it. The question then is: Was one week after his resurrection the moment for that promise to be kept? If not, were they free to leave in the interim?
While one could read Jesus instruction to never leave the city, a more reasonable reading is that he wanted them to remain in Jerusalem when the time came for the promise to be fulfilled.
The original Itinary: Supporting the implication that Jesus never meant to prohibit leaving Jerusalem in the interim, is the fact that Jesus original directive was for his Apostles, to meet him in Galilee. Indeed it was only their refusal to believe the women's message to that effect, was Jesus obliged to first appear to them in and around Jerusalem.
In any case whether the instruction was meant as a prohibition of any movement outside the city or directives to expect/wait for the holy spirit only in Jerusalem, the fact of the matter is what is indeed an instruction; at no time does the writer of Luke state the Apostles never left the city for even the briefest of moments. Therefore one must allow for the fact that they may well have left the city and returned in time for the festival of Pentecost 40 days after the initial instruction to wait on the spirit.
NOTE The introduction to the book of Acts 1:4,5 may well be referring to the same occassion of Luke 24:49
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Jun 6, 2018 9:08:46 GMT -5
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Oct 29, 2018 12:41:04 GMT -5
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