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Well put. I might add one major section is about a simple carpenter who never wrote a single word, about his life and the states of confusion he created in life and death! So millions of books about said carpenter and thousands of years of morphology and 1,000 years of discussion research and writing at the phd levels i am most certain we perfectly understand it!!!!
So i would like answers from a jw.And a nonjw.To compare back and forth.
Case of witch of Endor.
If you look at Genesis 35:18.It says her soul was departing.Not she was departing.And if you look at Psalms 90:10 it says we fly away.Not our souls fly away.I think the correct translation might be our souls fly away.Not we fly away.If you look at the part where it says she was departing.It looks kind of like the we part of Psalms 90:10.So i am still confused.
If you look at Genesis 35:18.It says her soul was departing.Not she was departing.And if you look at Psalms 90:10 it says we fly away.Not our souls fly away.I think the correct translation might be our souls fly away.Not we fly away.If you look at the part where it says she was departing.It looks kind of like the we part of Psalms 90:10.So i am still confused.
I think prohibition by itself implies that there was a problem. Witchcraft and divination in the Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia
No need to think about this at all,it's a story in a book that can't be proven to be true.Sorry I'm just not gonna live in fear just because of some words in a book.What is the harm in communicating with someone who has passed on? what would it hurt?Why would God forbid it?give me some valued reasons.
It's hard for me to reply to your quote because I feel the bible is all full of inconsistences and contradictions and stuff no one can prove at all. I don't feel when the Creator created man-kind he just let you live for awhile then cease to exist anymore,why would he do that? that's why I feel the soul he put in our human body is everlasting, never dies; only the physical body ceases to exist we are soul living in a body while here on earth but your soul continues on to experience and learn more and more spiritually about the awesome Universe he has created for us.
A Need for Consistency
As pointed out in Chapter Four, when Scripture talks about departure of the spirit or soul, we see that the essence of our being stays with the body. Examples given were:
Genesis 35:18 says, "her soul was departing," not "she was departing."
1 Kings 17:21-22 says, "the child's soul came back to him," not "the child came back."
Psalm 146:4 says, "his spirit departs, he returns to the earth." It does not say "he departs, his body returns to the earth."
Luke 8:55 says, "her spirit returned and she awoke," not "she returned and awoke."
Acts 20:10 says, "his soul is still in him," not "he is still in his body."
Psalms 90:10 says when we die we fly away.Not just that our soul flies away.
Also in Job 20:7-9 it says when a man dies he flys away like a dream.Which is similar to Psalms 90:10
I am confused.
If you look.It sounds like Psalms 90:10 sounds literal.While Job 20:7-9 sounds figurative.
My question is this.Why in all the other passages does it sound like our being stays with the body when we die?But in Psalms 90:10.And Job 20:7-9.It doesn't.
We really have no idea who really wrote the great story book or any of it's "scriptures". Man wrote it!! Man!! who knows it could have been written by a bunch of book club members who got together to write a fictional novel not knowing it would take off as it has,but that could be the reason there is so much inconsistencies and contradictions. We just don't know.There's no proof.
Can you tell me why would these things be forbidden by God,as the bible says?
Fake news from Canaan demons.
explain I don't follow you.
Sons of Israel received instruction from their God and those instruction were different from those of God's of Canaan, to protect Sons of Israel from wrong information, undermining God's instruction, e.g. human sacrifices, cannibalism . General demon tricks too.
