CIVIL RELIGIOUS DISCUSSION: All things Christianity

[JettaKnight]

Yeah... I think we'll just... no.


Just because someone is a Christian doesn't make them a better journalist.

 

[indiucky]

 

[Dead Duck]

Oh God!

 

[NKBJ]

Listened to a couple of hours interview with the author.

https://www.thearchesofegypt.com/

Had to buy the book.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

A Christian woman who was sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy has won her appeal and been acquitted in a landmark ruling.

 

[indiucky]

Yeah... I think we'll just... no.


Just because someone is a Christian doesn't make them a better journalist.

To me...And this is just me...

My coming to Christ was the acceptance that I am not a "better" person.....And the Lord was willing to take in a "wretch like me".....It blows me away every day....

 

[historian]

Cannonball (Pt. 2!)

[video=youtube;vVbYNmKj_Zk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVbYNmKj_Zk[/video]

 

[T.Lex]

The stories, and the histories, of the apocrypha are fascinating IMHO.

 

[foszoe]

From Protestant Scholarship

The Greek of the Septuagint and the New Testament
As we look more closely at the Septuagint and the New Testament, we should first consider what these Greek biblical texts tell us about the societies for which they were produced. For the most part, the Jewish community of Alexandria, from which the translators of the Pentateuch most likely came, were first- or second-generation residents of that area (Joosten, Collected Studies, 185). It is unlikely that most of the population would have already forgotten their knowledge or use of a Semitic language (Aramaic and perhaps some Hebrew), but clearly its use was waning, especially among younger Jews, for whom the Greek language was a means of greater success in the world at large. It is likely that the Septuagint of the Pentateuch arose in liturgical settings, where it would be used along with the Hebrew as part of synagogue services, as well as in educational settings. Although the Septuagint achieved an independent status at a later date, it began in a subsidiary role to the Hebrew or perhaps as an interpretive complement to the text in its original Semitic languages (for the relationship of the oral to the written, see Aejmelaeus, “Septuagint,” 5–14).




Greenspoon, L. J. (2016). Greek Language. In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R. Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, … W. Widder (Eds.), The Lexham Bible Dictionary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

Things can also be understood as part of scripture until another group calls them into question. Say for example the 2nd amendment means what most people think, but then a new group comes along and says no it means something different. That is when the debate occurs. If it has always been accepted, its not debated.

Cannonball (Pt. 2!)

[video=youtube;vVbYNmKj_Zk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVbYNmKj_Zk[/video]

May be easy to say Jesus and the apostles did not consider them in the canon but that doesn't make it so. It is never rejected by them.

Was Paul an apostle?

 

[foszoe]

Canon of Scripture Resources

Short and Sweet! The trouble accepting this podcast's thoughts will come mostly from literalists.

https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/ponderings/the_canonicity_of_the_septuagint

Lengthy and worthwhile:

Podcast or Transcript on this page. Bible Study Level

Topics: Which is inspired, Hebrew Text or Greek (LXX)? Use of other "Gospels" by the early church. Song of the Three Youths

https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/transforminglives/formation_of_the_new_testament_canon

5 part series, Podcasts only. College level, Orthodox in perspective

As the Intro to the Bible series continues, Jeannie begins a discussion of the canon of Scripture beginning with the Hebrew texts.

https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcas...uction_to_the_bible_lesson_9_the_canon_part_1

In this episode, Jeannie continues her discussion of the canon of Scripture and why the Old Testament is different in the Protestant Bible.

https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcas...ction_to_the_bible_lesson_10_the_canon_part_2

Now that we have learned about the Old Testament canon, Jeannie turns her attention to the New Testament.

https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcas...ction_to_the_bible_lesson_11_the_canon_part_3

Jeannie provides an explanation of why it is so important to study the canon of Scripture and to hold the line on what the Church has approved.

https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcas...ction_to_the_bible_lesson_11_the_canon_part_4

In her concluding lesson on the canon of Scripture, Jeannie discusses the books of the Bible that were included by the Church and why.

https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcas...ction_to_the_bible_lesson_13_the_canon_part_5

 

[NKBJ]

The stories, and the histories, of the apocrypha are fascinating IMHO.

Yes they are. Each to be digested and considered on it's own merits.

 

[NKBJ]

To me...And this is just me...

My coming to Christ was the acceptance that I am not a "better" person.....And the Lord was willing to take in a "wretch like me".....It blows me away every day....

Yeh, at least once a day any way (that I might be smart enough to realize) it's a good thing for me that He really is that forgiving.

 

[historian]

 

[foszoe]

Besides its predetermined so what even vote?

 

[JettaKnight]

Besides its predetermined so what even vote?

Sigh...

There's nothing to vote one.

 

[BugI02]

But only 144000 of you will be 'elected'?

 

[JettaKnight]

But only 144000 of you will be 'elected'?

I'm number 102469.

It's always fun to ask a JW what number they are, or what tribe they below to.

 

[indiucky]

I'm number 102469.

It's always fun to ask a JW what number they are, or what tribe they below to.

 

[NKBJ]

Not that he was Christian but once knew a fellow that actually believed scripture said only 144,000 were going to heaven.
But then again he also thought Abraham was an illiterate Jewish goat herder so what can you do with that?

 

[CampingJosh]

But then again he also thought Abraham was an illiterate Jewish goat herder so what can you do with that?

Well, except that he wasn't a descendant of his own grandson, he probably isn't wrong. He definitely kept herds. Nearly everyone was illiterate then.