(December 4, 2017 at 6:13 pm)Khemikal Wrote:*Sigh* Let me give you some background "noise". Hundreds of years before Jesus, a man from Greece named Alexander the Great, conquered the world. He demanded that all nations surrender to him in HIS language which was Attic Greek. That language became the language of the world. Attic Greek is itself a dialect of the Classical Greek.(December 4, 2017 at 6:04 pm)Haipule Wrote: Aloha AF:Anti-theism doesn't care about your translation. The idea is shitty in any language. That you've scrubbed so much from your own "god" leads me to suspect that you're halfway to where I'm at anyway. Get back to me when it';s sound and noise, signifying nothing...and then I'll ask you what could possibly go wrong when people believe in sound and noise that signifies nothing.
Thank you for your responses. I cannot defend religion. I cannot defend theology. I look at the church like a brick looks at a stained glass window!
I wish to defend the Bible which is anti religious and anti theology. I have read it in it's autographed language honoring every aspect of the grammatical inflection and syntax. The English bible has been corrupted by theologians to teach the their fantasy theologies. It is horrific what they have done and continue to do to it! And then they call their nonsense 'spiritual truth'. Really?! The Inquisition? They can only see the bible with their doctrinal prescription eyeglasses on. They can not see it purely with 20/20 vision, as they are veiled. This shit is handed down from seminary professor to student, century after century.
Words you will NOT find in the autographed language; creation, salvation, sin, trinity, spirit, spirituality, soul, conscience, Christ, repent, gospel, born again, blasphemy, grace, hate, heaven, hell. And yet, they fight over these stupid words which are not God's!
The bible is simply instructions to live well and not be a jackass! So, you can see how far off they are. The bible says we go to God because we trust He is there and hiring. Those who go to Him are not cast out. The bible identifies people as either useless goats led by goat herders or useful sheep led by a shepherd. I'm sorry, is this getting too complicated?
In the Caribbean, you cannot tell a sheep from a goat. They look exactly the same! The only way to tell them apart is to look at the tail. If the tail is arrogantly up, it is a goat. If it is humbly down, it is a sheep. So, if you are wondering whether you are a sheep or a goat, just turn around and look!
Yet, someone will say, "So, your the only one that's right and EVERYBODY else is wrong!" "Do you see a problem with that?" NO! My problem is why me, why now?
Alexander did this because he knew there was no wiggle room for loop hole and interpretation in his language. After the demise of Alexander, his Attic Greek degraded into local area dialects around the world, including Jerusalem, called Koine Greek. That is the language of the NT.
Koine Greek is highly inflective. It is a root word with alphabet soup telling us the precise inflection of noun declension and verb conjugation. Greek is a precision Swiss watch while English is a sun dial at night with the largest dictionary in the world so that we can explain a thought. "My translations" are the honor of those inflections! The language itself is the interpretation. So PLEASE don't make me a part of that.
"Shitty?" To whom to you give that authority to call anything God, "shitty"? Everything Christian and religion has degraded into shit! Friend, you are self deceived because you do not challenge words. Your whole life is your anecdotal evidence that their is no God. Congratulations!