tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post8675726601466070600..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Genesis IronyAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-53645852543235334092008-03-31T19:11:00.000-04:002008-03-31T19:11:00.000-04:00Heh. I was considering going into it for Roper's ...Heh. I was considering going into it for Roper's benefit, but decided that song had been sung.<BR/><BR/>It would have only been 2 parts, smartass.<BR/><BR/>Okay, maybe 3 parts.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-23613210614914023112008-03-31T13:12:00.000-04:002008-03-31T13:12:00.000-04:00AVI,Once you finish The Language Instinct, I'd rec...AVI,<BR/>Once you finish <I>The Language Instinct</I>, I'd recommend <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Orthodox-Corruption-Scripture-Christological-Controversies/dp/0195102797" REL="nofollow">The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture</A> by Bart Ehrman for a fascinating exploration of how the New Testiment "evolved" through the earliest writings. -cpcold pizzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12358492312125897793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-56151740512286736352008-03-31T07:46:00.000-04:002008-03-31T07:46:00.000-04:00Thanks, GM Roper. KJV-only folks were a personal ...Thanks, GM Roper. KJV-only folks were a personal crusade of his when we first got the internet. As you can tell, he did not succeed in convincing them. Now we'll be subject to a long post on the matter.<BR/><BR/>AVI, my recommendation is to break the long post into 8 smaller posts.GraniteDadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04851407860883846133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-29530622010058677042008-03-30T19:14:00.000-04:002008-03-30T19:14:00.000-04:00AVI, interesting question and I have no doubt that...AVI, interesting question and I have no doubt that you are right, the non-believers would push Genesis and the faithful would resist acceptance.<BR/><BR/>Part of that whole problem methinks is that the bible is accepted as the word of God without any influence by man. This despite the fact that the Pentatuch was an oral tradition long before it was written. I had one "scholor" tell me that the King James version was THE inspired word of God and the fact that it is a beautiful but inexact translation didn't seem to phase him one bit.<BR/><BR/>Darn, now you've gone and made me think again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-14963654692889589472008-03-30T06:42:00.000-04:002008-03-30T06:42:00.000-04:00http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/chariot-whe...http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/chariot-wheels.htm<BR/><BR/>Just came upon the find, of some relevance. Yours was an excellent write-up with much thought to ponder! Indeed what is Holy Writ and what's not, or thought not to be (such as the Apocryphal books and Gnostic texts, etc. and what of those still read/maintained in Hebrew scriptures but never entering Christian Bibles? And then there's variations in interpretation and alleged (mis)translations, such as a preacher I once knew - who tried to convince me that the RC belief in Peter as "the Rock" was incorrect, and that Jesus actually uttered to the effect that "Peter, you are but a pebble - but upon this rock (some place he either pointed to or referred to, or in reference to his professions of Truth) I shall build my Church." And so the debates go on and on .... One professor at my college, in our course on the Old Testament, did clarify one seeming absurdity I had always wondered about - of "it's harder for a rich man to get to Heaven than for a camel to enter a needle's eye" - the the "needle's eye" really meant the side entrances into that world's protected citadels - that upon being attacked, they'd have to push the camels down on their knees and sort of slide them through those doors. Ah, then it all made sense! Cheers, TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com