I began with the trespassers version in the Presbyterian church, but for most of my childhood we used the REALLY modernized Lutheran version:
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial
and deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours,
now and forever. Amen.
But I remember the Presbeterians used the trespassers and the inevitable Sunday lecture about how trespasses were bad things you did to others not cutting through the corner of your neighbor's lawn---unless of course you walked on his prize petunias. Debtors I didn't hear about until later.
The word "sin" wasn't really in either the Greek or Hebrew vocabulary at the time--- at least not the Christianity came to use it. It meant something like to miss the mark in Greek. Thus trespassing and other imperfect synonyms.
I think the temptation was clearer than "the time of trial" though.
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial
and deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours,
now and forever. Amen.
But I remember the Presbeterians used the trespassers and the inevitable Sunday lecture about how trespasses were bad things you did to others not cutting through the corner of your neighbor's lawn---unless of course you walked on his prize petunias. Debtors I didn't hear about until later.
The word "sin" wasn't really in either the Greek or Hebrew vocabulary at the time--- at least not the Christianity came to use it. It meant something like to miss the mark in Greek. Thus trespassing and other imperfect synonyms.
I think the temptation was clearer than "the time of trial" though.
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.
