(August 22, 2015 at 10:12 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(August 22, 2015 at 10:01 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Actually, it is a Jewish book, but a Jewish book that Christians have adopted (not to mention reinterpreted).
You can look at the "Hebrew version" and see that nothings been "reinterpreted".
You may have read "mistranslated," but I meant what I said, "reinterpreted" though occasionally as in the example of translating the word young woman as virgin, mistranslated in the process. And Christians of various stripes have reinterpreted it all sorts of ways beginning with claiming that all sorts of things in it are prophecies of Jesus, many of which are aren't prophecies at all let alone of Jesus. Not to mention trying to twist various angelic or godly visitations into appearances of Jesus. I forget which Christian here startled me by suggesting that Jacob wrestled with Jesus, but it was pretty recent here on the forum.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.