Well, what about this? I found the original article in the New York Times, but unless you are a subscriber you can't read the whole article. So, I found it here after searching. Now why didn't the FDS come up with this idea? http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/27/5600464/theres-an-app-to-read-good-book.html#storylink=misearch
I told my sister in law to read the Bible and familiarize herself with it Before they choose to attend any particular church ,or to study with any particular religion . Biblegateway has both audios bibles and a phone app . She opted for the app , but a friend who was raised Mormon stayed here two weeks ago and I intro- duced her to the audio bibles there ( I also use it when I want to work on home projects so I can listen while I'm working on something) I gave my other set of bible tapes to my X brother in law (we're still friends) because he has dyslexia and reads very poorly but kept my NW version on tape . I do like the NIV translation and I have long had the habit of mentally inserting God's name into any one version I might be reading .( ok I still love KJ'S for its language is often more powerful in its intent tho influenced by doctrine ) The WT does have the audio bible but since the site is relatively new I suspect that a phone app is probably in the works ..(but God forbid if people become too studious and take away the need for them to feed us) oh that's right some of us have already done that learned to self feed like any adult should .. But that was an interesting article and I love doing research myself and another site to explore ..
Ditto about John 1:1 (I'm amazed that a no-JW believer writes such things ! Wow !) : http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kermit...god-but-that-translation-is-really-quite-odd/ and others here : http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kermitzarleyblog/author/kermitzarleyblog/
my tools for bible study.# 1 willingness. #2 a non denomination bible. (very important) #3 Jehovah's holy spirit without it you are wasting your time you might just as well be reading a newspaper plenty of valuable information but what can you do with it without holy spirit? #4 a purpose reading and studying the Bible has a purpose and that purpose is to get you talking to god via Jesus Christ and doing what god asks of you. I'm not just talking of the examples given in writing in that bible. I'm talking about the one thing that every righteous man in the Bible had in common. they all prayed to Jehovah beforehand in their day to day life got a day to day answer and went forth to do it... that's what bible study is for.. what its not for is for you to be able find and manipulate bible verses to gain advantage over your fellowman. now take it from their! run with it live by it and receive the true blessings from meeting the living word Jesus Christ
TMS 2013 with all the references provided in one pdf file. The download starts immediately. File size : 1,6 Mo. Pages 3-4, the blue colour means an hyperlink. http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/13837020/1557497696/name/TMS_2013.pdf TMS 2014 only http://www.sendspace.com/file/d4djjj
Parallel Greek New Testament http://www.greeknewtestament.com/ Parallel Hebrew Old Testament http://www.hebrewoldtestament.com/
Circuit and District talk link and Jehovahs' Witnesses United discussion links circuit and district overseer talks http://www.centralprint.net/jwtalks/COVisits/DOCOVisits.html Jehovah's Witnesses United discussions http://www.jehovah.to/ use tabs at top of pages ....
Hi all, It is interesting that many scholars believe that the original NT scriptures were written in Aramaic. And then later translated to the greek. While this is not the popular way of thinking in the translation world of men it makes sense to me because after all that was the language that Jesus and the Jews spoke in those days as their primary language. Just a bit of info on this subject that I have come across. Have a nice day. Joe
Two interesting links I came across lately : http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/lxx.php http://ebible.org/bible/
From my understanding, Aramaic is to Hebrew as American English is to the King's English. AKA British. Most words in Aramaic are spelled a little differently than Hebrew and their alphabet is the same. Whether the Greek scriptures were originally written in Aramaic or Greek is a moot point. Which is a good example to use here. Moot originates from original English mote, which originally meant to come together to debate an issue. Then it came to mean "of little consequence." The majority of Israelites spoke Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Some others also learned Latin. The more educated were multi-lingual. People who raise the issue of original language used to write the "New Testament" will always have issues to argue about. That is the issue that Paul addressed in his letter to Timothy. (1 Tim. 6:3-5) It does not matter one iota in which language it was written. It's the message that counts. Most bible scholars miss the real point in study of the bible. They are more concerned with their standing in the scholarly institutes, which will lead to promotions and more letters after their names. (Acts 4:13)
now that the wbts has coded the bible into a PDF download I asked myself the question of what the original language was. I than compared the PDF code using a hex reader. here is the result. old testament is closer to Arabic then Hebrew in fact way closer. new testament is consistent with the Greek and with Latin to some degree. having run the code read I must wonder why the Islamic language pattern is way closer than hebrew I Evan checked code against Ethiopian and its closer than Hebrew hmmm now I can't sleep
An amazing tracking of the fight to give the bible to the common man Two part series , well worth the viewing .. If one has actually read "The Two Babylons" by Alexander Hislop when the "society" used to dispense it ...one wonders just how far the infiltration into WTBTS any incursion by the Jesuits ... seeing the most recent years of WTBTS ... A Lamp in the Dark Tares Among the Wheat threw my back out again so laid down to watch this since I can't stay upright for now.. these full documentaries are on Utube ..
Unofficial Youtube page for JWs with useful audio files. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPvDBqs5CGSKj85Tb-oA1BQ/videos
Look at what I found in the vault (sound of door creaking open) of the forum - some old files. I'll wipe the dust off them (cough, cough, sputter) and resurrect them!
Useful query terms when making research online about Babylon, for example : if you only want one type of document (pdf, doc, jpg, etc) => "filetype: pdf Babylon" or "ext: pdf Babylon" if you want to discard one term that often goes with Babylon => "Babylon -Kassites" if you're looking for material from one website only => "site:e-jw.org Babylon" Many others there. It's nothing complicated and it can save you time and spare you some hassle whilst making research.
it would be fantastically nice if this thread could be "pinned" to the top of a section perhaps in something like "SHOUT BOX" ...so we can find the research stuff . I can't tell you how many times I've come searching through threads trying to figure out the title ..."tools for research" , I admit the brain functions minimally at times (more often than not) ...ahhh haaa just a suggestion for those of us with minimal memory .
There were some dead links above and I resurrected them ! Please, when you notice that links are dead, don't hesitate to notify us about it. -------------------------------------------------------- Here is a list of tons of books, more or less related to the WT, in pdf version. http://www.watchtowerdocuments.com/documents/
I had asked once Big Boss about putting this thread in the tabs above along with "What's New/Forum/Blogs...". I don't remember what he answered me. Maybe that that's not possible. In the meantime, you can always bookmark it => Crtl+D