‘Praise in the Temple’? Only there, huh?
Prove it. Sounds like your twisting, to me.
Daniel was not at the Temple, yet he gave “praise” — in Babylon. Daniel 2:23.
Psalms 6:5
I looked in my Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament and for the word used in Ps 6:5 it says that it was predominantly employed to express one's
public proclamation of declaration of God's attributes and his works.
I looked up the word used in Ps 115:17 and it said it was a synonym of yada, the word used in Ps 6:5. It is more of a joyous praise and it says that this sort of praise is especially but not uniquely congregational.
I looked up the work in Daniel and it is a completely different word and is Aramaic.
Where does it say “Jesus rose bodily”? I know it says, he was “put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit.”
John 2:19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body. 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
Luke 24:37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
Matt 28:6
He is not here; He has risen, just as He said! Come, see the place where He lay.
(Yes, why did God kill those who pursued talking with the dead? * Deuteronomy 18:10-12 * I’d love to talk again w/ my grandmother. As would most everyone with theirs. So I guess the question is, Is God being cruel, or protective?)
Death is death and it is only rarely that God would bring the soul of a dead person back to rejoin their body (1Kings 17:21) or bring someone up from the dead as a spirit to give a message from Him.
It is certainly not something that someone can do without going through Yahweh. Satan can and has deceived people about these things for years. I guess it showed a complete turning away from Yahweh by a Jew. Nevertheless God used the occasion to tell Saul the truth of what would happen to him and his sons. And yes it was Saul because the Bible tells us it was.
The Bible says that Jehovah God said to Adam, “You will return to the ground....to dust you will return.” Genesis 3:19
And so we do because we are made from dust, but we are not just dust and the spirit part, the part that was not made, goes back to God who gave it. God is looking after the spirits of billions of dead people. When the body dies the spirit part becomes the only living part of the person, it is then termed the soul of the person, the totality of that person. (Matt 10:28) When Jesus gave up His spirit to God when He died, it was His spirit and not just a generic life force from God.
There are many places in the New Testament that show that we have a spirit and that the body is a tent for us etc.
The Bible says, “The living know (who knows? The people, or their bodies?) that they will die; but the dead know nothing.” Ecclesiastes 9:5.
Does that mean that they do not exist? No. It means they have no idea what is going on. In context I would say it means they don't know what is happening in the land of the living. They may even be in a state of sleep or semi slumber. Samuel seemed annoyed that Saul had disturbed him from his rest.
1Sam 28:19
Moreover, the LORD will deliver Israel with you into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me
Samuel even said that Saul would be with him, not that they would be out of existence. These things are why the WT and you have to say that it was not really Samuel, it was a demon. It is similar with the thief on the cross. Truly I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.
The Watchtower has to change the meaning because it disagrees with their doctrine. Simple put the comma in a place so that Jesus uses a phrase that he has never used before instead of one that he used every second day.
The Bible says when a person dies, “his thoughts perish.” Psalms 146:3-4
That does not mean that the person goes out of existence. Maybe they are just sleeping.
But no, in contest that means what it says in many translations. "his plans perish". Don't put your trust in humans because they die and their plans perish with them.
When Jesus resurrected Lazarus (John 11), did Lazarus say he had been ‘in another realm’?
In fact, In that account Jesus likened the condition of death, to sleep, a state of unconsciousness & unawareness.
I don't know what Lazarus said or remembered? Do you? He probably remembered nothing I suppose.
Is he meant to remember something?
Jesus may be right about death being sleep. But that is not going into non existence. I sleep and sort of wake up during the night and I know I have not gone into non existence.
Since you don’t accept the first part of Psalms 115:17, what does “going down into silence ” mean? Silence ‘at the Temple’?
It probably means that they have not got ears or voices to sing God's praise.
What does Resurrection mean? Your view that ‘the dead are still alive after death,’ negates any need for the Resurrection.
Resurrection means to come back to life, in this case the human being comes back to life. This is why a resurrection is needed, because as spirits we are not human.
Even the souls of the anointed are brought back with Jesus to be resurrected (1Thess 4:13-18) And the bodies of the anointed are redeemed from death and corruption. (Romans 8:23----which the Watchtower seems to have altered as they do other verses in the Bible to suite their doctrines)
As I have no doubt said to you before, if God copied me now it would plainly be a copy, a duplicate, not me.
What would change if God copied me after I died? That would be a duplicate also.
The Watchtower takes away the possibility of a resurrection as well as changing the meaning of what resurrection means.
Don’t be antagonistic, ok?
Sorry, I am not against you. It is just that I am antagonistic to the Watchtower. I also get frustrated with JWs for rejecting the clear meaning of scripture and clear reasoning and not giving answers address my concerns but then shutting down the discussion.
I get this way with Baha'is also at times.