(September 6, 2019 at 12:09 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Generally speaking, Christians look up several translation when they want to get the overall meaning of a verse, and lookup the original languages using lexicons and other sources when they want the specific meaning of a word. I went to a Christian school for a bit and took a semester of Greek as one of their electives.
Imagine you're reading Bible supposedly translated by experts and you still need a dictionary because you're a bigger expert.
Like I said earlier that scholars don't even agree on how verses should be translated. You could be the world's greatest Greek or Hebrew scholar and still have experts dispute your interpretations.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
