RE: Hell is not real...
July 31, 2012 at 4:25 am
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2012 at 4:28 am by CliveStaples.)
(July 31, 2012 at 4:14 am)padraic Wrote: Min, I can't be bother arguing the ignoramus, but I would like to ask a question from genuine curiosity-based ignorance:
My understanding is that the Torah was first written down in the seventh century bce,in Judea. I also understand that written Hebrew dates from about the tenth century bce. In what language is it most likely the Torah was first written?
The Jewish Babylonian captivity is thought to have ended in 587 bce. How likely is that Jewish scribes would have been writing in Babylonian script? (cuneiform) Umm, didn't Alexander conquer Babylon a few centuries earlier? So perhaps Greek after all?
I'm confused.
AtG was in the 4th centry BC(E).
(July 31, 2012 at 3:46 am)catfish Wrote: Are you also supporting the translation of aion (an age) as "eternal" while the Greek word for eternal is generally viewed as "aionios"(sp?)
That's a pretty silly parse, I think. Greek authors do stuff like that all the time. Just read John. Looser grammar typifies Koine Greek.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
