Why Jehovah lied concerning the tree of Knowledge?
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Because it made for a good story.
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I had a book, once upon a time, about numerous different translations of the Bible, one of which was the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (I still have copy of the translation though).  It was rated by religion scholars as one of (if not the) worst translations for the very fact that the translators did not have a working knowledge of Hebrew or Greek (by the translators' own admissions, they felt they didn't need it!).  They worked by translating individual words with dictionaries.  It also mentioned that a review of it came out in some scholarly magazine titled "How Not to Translate the Bible."  It has been accused of being very biased towards their religion, and I would have to agree.  Despite their claims, the name "Jehovah" (actually "YHWH", "Jehovah" is an English corruption) does NOT appear in any of the original New Testament manuscripts, although in the NWT, the word "Jehovah" does manage to appear.
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Bible doesn't specify what the carpenter built, was it furniture or boats? Why mention it? Same thing, Jesus was human and it was normal to be married, so why write about something that is obvious? Even the gnostics, who wrote that he loved her, didn't mention any details at all. If the writer's intention was to only make Mary look like Jesus' wife, then she (gnostic writers were mainly females) would have added details. They didn't because it is irrlevent, it's the "love" that is important and that's all. However note that the gnostics married spiritually, the marriage ceremony was sexual intercourse. Note also the wedding mentioned in the Christian bible... it was "on the third day" (significance?), the groom always provided the wine (Jesus turned water into wine there [this is symbolical, not a miracle]). Then, who is "the disciple whom Jesus loved"? Why does the writer not simply say who it is? If bible is "word of God" then the reader has a right to know. Why the mystery? The reason is because the gnostics were all about "hidden knowledge", that is how they wrote. Gospel of John is the most "gnostic" of the synoptics. No time left, but yes there is more than enough evidence to support that the Magdalene was Jesus' consort.
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I said that, sweetheart. I said he was a heretic because the Bible says that everything written in the Bible is literal, and is inspired by God, therefore to deny what it says is heretical. The Bible says, "Though every man be a liar, God is not." Therefore to call God's story on creation "un-true" is to call God a liar, which in of itself is a complete lie.
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Actually the shadow of truth is not about the holy grail, the church doesn't care about this part... but the truth from the novel is that Jesus is a mortal prophit and his divinity was invented by men long ago. This is what people should research for, and not quote the bible cause the bible has already been modified.
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First of all, no one speaks ancient Greek or Hebrew anymore, so there will always be some debate to translation.  \n\nSecond, the translators of the New World Translation are all Jehovah's Witnesses.  Part of the belief system of the Jehovah Witnesses (and part of what makes it a cult) is that if any non-JW tries to convince you of anything they are "from the devil, and should not be listened to."  So it isn't that they haven't told the translators about the errors, it is that the translators don't listen.  \n\nThird, the "scholars" you speak of don't have the qualifications to translate the Bible.  They use their ideology, not their intellect to make the statement that there are "no errors."\n\nFourth, if the "scholars" were doing such a great job of translating, why don't all the other scholars who study ancient Greek and Hebrew come up with at least SOME of the same conclusions, in fact why do ALL of them disagree?\n\nFifth, if the New World Translation has no errors, why can a simple Greek student like myself find errors?  If you believe the New World Translation has no errors, you have never taken Greek!\n\nSixth, Scholars who have actually done the translating on every translation (with a few exceptions where ideology got in the way, like the NWT) have worked very hard to make sure there were no translation errors, so your argument is invalid.\n\n\nBTW - Translating error - John 1:1, if it should be translated "the Word was a God" because of the lack of a definite article before the word translated God (here the word is Theos), you had better insert the word "a" before God in verses 6,12, and 18 of the same chapter to read, "There arose a man that was sent forth as a representative of a god," "...to them he gave authority to become a god's children," and, "No man has seen a god at any time," for there is no definite article in front of God in any of these verses, either.  If you don't believe me, look it up.
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the long hair and skirts are another religion,we don't lie,we do take no for an answer,we go with the Bible and that is the whole basis of our beliefs,Ps.83:18 will tell you who Jehovah is,He has witnessed all things by mankind.why did you ask that question? you need help with your hate issue,most the people here don't hate.but,this is satans world,never can tell how some people will spread his emotion of choice.
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No one created the tree, it was planted. That god can't create, he can only "form" and "plant" and clone what already exists. He was a mad scientist. The tree is knowledge and that god didn't want Eve & Adam to have it [knowledge]. What sort of god is this? Eve [who is life], was much wiser and desired wisdom, her husband Adam [the intellectual mammal] was stupid. So then Zoe (daughter of the holy spirit; consort of the cosmic christ) opened their eyes and liberated them [joined them to become one again] (for this reason the man will leave his parents and join to his wife and they will become one being again; when you make the two into one, and there is neither male nor female, you will enter the kingdom; gospel of Thomas). Then Ialdaboath the tyrant became furious because they became one again (I and the Father are one), and cursed christ's daughter [the serpent] and he also cursed what he created (actually what he formed, he "forms the light" that christ's father creates; bends time-space; second law of thermodynamics; entropy). God is invisible light (knowledge). That's level three of the Myth.
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Frank, if you can believe the Bible literally when it says that Jesus walked on water, raised people from the dead, and spoke the very universe into existence (John 1), then you should be able to believe that he literally stuck a grown man and a woman on planet earth to start the human species. \n\nThat's not to say I want you to become a Jehovah's Witness. You would do well to examine the Watch Tower organization thoroughly, including its history of failed prophecies. No man-made organization can pay the price you owe for your sin—only Jesus can. He alone is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6).\n\nIf you are open to examining the creation vs. evolution debate from a non-Jehovah's Witness perspective, I would recommend checking out Answers in Genesis—an excellent ministry that combines the facts of observable science (not to be confused with unproven theories) with the facts of the Bible.
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Wow, this is an easy question. I think you know the answer already, but basically this is simple combination of ignorance, brainwashed mindsets, and fear.\n\nThrough these qualities they foolishly think the bible is the literal word of god, so they just blindly follow that no matter how absurd out-dated their reasoning is.\n\nhere is a great list of absurdities listed in the bible:\nhttp://skepticsannotatedbible.com/abs/long.htm
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The questioner's point is that Jehovah God's Word the Bible explains clearly that this world, this system of things, is temporary and has no expectation of success for all humanity. Other gods and belief systems teach that this system is the one we are stuck with, yet such beliefs have been unsuccessful for thousands of years.\n\n(2 Corinthians 4:3,4) If, now, the good news we declare is in fact veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing, among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through
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Because they have been taught by people they trust (the Watchtower organization) that Jesus is not God.\n\nFor more discussion of the Jehovah's Witnesses, see\nhttp://www.godsci.org/gs/sect/jw/jw.html\n\nand\n\nhttp://www.godsci.org/gs/sect/jw/jw00.html\n\nCordially,\nJohn
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Nothing from the bible has been proven except obvious things (the sun rose that morning lol). There's much better explanations for nature and the workings of the universe than the bible has ever given. EVIDENCE and FACTS point towards things VERY different than those written in the bible. It's vastly outdated and filled with lies and things we should long have forgotten.
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That the person who wrote that is uninformed of what the bible really teaches.\n\nIf you want to know what the bible really teaches, visit http://watchtower.org\n\n\nloj
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because they told me the truth, jesus is God's son and not God as believed by many christian religions, noer his he part of a trinity. Jehovah is God's name whether it is taken out of the bible or not.\n\nthe first contact I had with witnesses, was when my mother said close the curtains and turn off the TV them bible bashers are here again, well that made me curious to know what they had to say, I had a freind who's parents studied, and bought a book printed by the witnesses in a charity shop, after reading it cover to cover, it touched a nerve.\n\nbut a few years went by and me and my partner moved in together, he worked for a JW and came home with stories I could not believe about the world ending and some dragon or other, but after our first christmas in our new house we decided to contact the witnesses and because we knew some of they're beliefs we took down all the decorations so we would not offend them.\n\nthe couple that came were an older married couple whos child went to school with my husband and who he had known for some time, and the main thing I remember from that meeting was the love that they spoke of within the congregation, so we started to study, within 3 months we got married because we were living together, my husband got baptised and I got pregnant, thats over 18 yuears ago now, we had some hard times as non of our families share our beliefs and we went from our first christmas to understand how wrong it is to celebrate that.\n\nI am not and have never been brainwashed into thinking what I beleive, I have struggled with it at times and we are encouraged to study the bible avidly. I now spend most of my time sharing the things I have learned with others in the door to door ministry.\n\nand just to let you know hiding behind closed curtains only means we will call back at another time!\nif you really don't want us to call, ask for your house to be put down as a DO NOT CALL at your local congregation then you will not be called on.
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Our freewill was created by Jehovah.  He wants people to serve him because they want to serve him, because they love him.  He doesn't want people to be programmed like robots and worship him because they simply were made that way.