(April 30, 2012 at 4:35 am)RaphielDrake Wrote:(April 19, 2012 at 9:27 am)Drich Wrote: You do understand that each translation is not a re interpretation of the last? so your dates mean nothing as far as the content of the next bible is concerned. Each translation is literally taken from the oldest manuscript with the greatest provenance. One that has been under girded and confirmed with other copies of itself. No translation is a copy or reinterpretation of the preceding translation. Even the most modern copy of the bible is still taken from the originals.
Otherwise how is it you think I can go back and illiterate the original words in the Greek and Hebrew? Like the whole bit on Benevolence where i show God does not offer unconditional love He offers Agape' Love.
Agape' is a one of the 4 Koine Greek terms describing a very specific type of love. Which by it's definition is conditional. I know this because We have bibles still in the original Greek to look at and analyze. Then on top of that we have concordances and lexicons that break down each and every word and it places them side by side with the original and a break down of the intended use of the word and meaning.
I did not wake up one morning and decided to come here and start arguements as some have suggested. I have been working on the exegessis of the bible for the last 10 or more years. I am here because I am in a position to give what some of you are looking for.
Keeping in mind you just put entire paragraphs into attempting to convince that the current version of the Bible is almost exactly the same as the original and therefore should be regarded as the word of God...
How do you feel about stoning unruly children and womens rights?
Don't be shy now. :-)
(Laptop broke, finally found a replacement.)
If I was an OT Jew then I would be all for it. as I am not and because I claim allegiance to Christianity, I follow the example Christ sets before us as per John 8. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...rsion=NKJV (Which is sourced from the Bible, and as we all know: is almost exactly the same as the original and therefore should be regarded as the word of God... )
