The Bible doesn't need another good translation. It needs a good re-write
First we tried to burn them, but we found out there are just to damn many copies out there! I second the motion for a REWRITE
sabastious
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Most Respected Bible Translation
by Simon Morley inthis may have been asked before, so as a newbie i apologize.
what bible translation have you found to be the most respected and recognized by both hebrew and classical scholars for its faithful translation?
please no comments on the nwt!.
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sabastious
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A serious question for Christians and Non-Christians: How Can Love Hate?
by sabastious in1 john 4:2 - whoever does not love does not know god, because god is love.. .
what does the statement "god is love" mean?
well quite simply that god = love.
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sabastious
@Twitch - Elaborate on that, it's a good start.
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A serious question for Christians and Non-Christians: How Can Love Hate?
by sabastious in1 john 4:2 - whoever does not love does not know god, because god is love.. .
what does the statement "god is love" mean?
well quite simply that god = love.
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sabastious
The only wrong answer to any philisophical question is a logically fallacious answer.
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A serious question for Christians and Non-Christians: How Can Love Hate?
by sabastious in1 john 4:2 - whoever does not love does not know god, because god is love.. .
what does the statement "god is love" mean?
well quite simply that god = love.
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sabastious
"God we are lead to believe is the personification of love, but is still capable of hate."
This is an interesting argument here. You are saying that when the Bible says God is Love that is actually just using the term as a metaphor and that God isn't ACTUALLY love but just the personification of love. Then, logically, he would be capable of hate.
BTW love never facilitates hate, it would only appear so at times. Just because someone is crazy and thinks they are "hating out of love" doesn't attest to love being connected with hate.
Love is similar to hate, yes as far as an emotion, but logically, hate cannot become from love and love cannot become from hate.
Love can TURN INTO hate, and vise versa.
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A serious question for Christians and Non-Christians: How Can Love Hate?
by sabastious in1 john 4:2 - whoever does not love does not know god, because god is love.. .
what does the statement "god is love" mean?
well quite simply that god = love.
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@PSac
Very odd reasoning here. So the scripture in Psalms is not different but simply outdated? If this is true it brings up a slew of other questions. You depiction of "God's ultimate plan" is chock full of holes from where I am standing.
-Sab
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A serious question for Christians and Non-Christians: How Can Love Hate?
by sabastious in1 john 4:2 - whoever does not love does not know god, because god is love.. .
what does the statement "god is love" mean?
well quite simply that god = love.
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sabastious
Holy crap the word processor freaked out on me, just got it all fixed.
DISCUSS!
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A serious question for Christians and Non-Christians: How Can Love Hate?
by sabastious in1 john 4:2 - whoever does not love does not know god, because god is love.. .
what does the statement "god is love" mean?
well quite simply that god = love.
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sabastious
1 John 4:2 - Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
What does the statement "God is love" mean? Well quite simply that God = Love. Love is synonymous with God.
So you would be linguistically correct when you say "I God my wife" or "I God You". Love, according the Bible is a FORCE that humans TAP INTO in order to use. We CANNOT love on our own, according to the Bible.
Here is the question and I'll start with another scripture:
Psalms 11:5 - The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked and those who love violence his soul hates.
If God = Love than how can Love be capable of hate? Hate is the antonym of Love.
You are free to answer as you like, but keep in mind that I ignore blatantly thoughtless answers such as "we, as humans can't understand Godly concepts such as these."
DISCUSS!
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The Story of Adam and Eve, Sexist, Egotistical and Guilt-Inducing
by sabastious input yourself in the mind of an ignorant early human.
he can speak, he can understand his surroundings and can even chart the stars in the night sky.. .
one other thing this man can understand is injustice: when bad things happen to people who didnt do anything to deserve them.. .
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sabastious
I like that, Terry.
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The Story of Adam and Eve, Sexist, Egotistical and Guilt-Inducing
by sabastious input yourself in the mind of an ignorant early human.
he can speak, he can understand his surroundings and can even chart the stars in the night sky.. .
one other thing this man can understand is injustice: when bad things happen to people who didnt do anything to deserve them.. .
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sabastious
yup :)
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The Story of Adam and Eve, Sexist, Egotistical and Guilt-Inducing
by sabastious input yourself in the mind of an ignorant early human.
he can speak, he can understand his surroundings and can even chart the stars in the night sky.. .
one other thing this man can understand is injustice: when bad things happen to people who didnt do anything to deserve them.. .
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@Zidd
I'm not sure what you are trying to debate.
The fact is, this story has been used for a very specific purpose. My neanderthal illustration was not set in stone (hah!). The main point of the post is it's title.
The story was made to control humans and control women even more so. It explains "WHY?" and very poorly at that.
People keep saying it's allegorical, then what is the general consensus of what it originally was supposed to represent? Revelation says in it's opening that it is symbolism, why does the Genesis account speak as if it were true human history? Because the writers thought it WAS human history.
-Sab