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I've been on BAM for a little under a year. I hadn't posted there much til recently. You have a distinctive way of punctuating that gives you away. What do you think about holy laughter?

There's such thing as holy laughter. Been there; seen that. Your experience seems to be one of the devil counterfeiting God's gifts. It happens all the time with tongues, too. That doesn't mean you should completely throw out the original gift.

Let's let the readers who come behind us judge who is embarrassing themselves :smile:

You've confused the LXX with the Apocrypha. Not the same thing.

The LXX is not just one manuscript... you know that, right? The LXX is ALL the Greek translations of the Old Testament. Some are better than others. Are any of them perfect? No... because there's no such thing as a perfect translation. Do they comprise a viable translation of the Old...

Yes, I can. Mark 7:66 [Jesus] answered and said unto them, "Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honoureth me with [their] lips, but their heart is far from me. 7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.'"...

Your argument here is circular. It relies on the conclusion as a premise. Also, it's demonstrably wrong. It can be proven that Jesus, and all the New Testament writers, quote from the Septuagint. Finally, what manuscript would you prefer? The Masoretic has FAR more corruptions. The Dead...

I think it might be the opposite. Self-interpretation of Scripture without paying heed to good teachers or submitting to any authority seems to lead to the creation of heresies.

I mean... asking isn't necessarily prayer, but it's commonly part of it. I think if you're directing your unspoken thoughts in the general direction of someone and trusting that they hear, you are probably praying.

Yes, but let me justify myself. While the making of Greek translations of the Scriptures apparently started in the 3rd or 2nd century BC, it continued for close to a thousand years. Most of those translations were made by Christians. The early church adopted the Greek as their Bible of...

Certainty wasn't intended. There's a way of writing Hebrew without being ambiguous. Where it is ambiguous, the authors meant for it to be so. I think the reason has something to do with inspiration. The reader is meant to take the meaning that is inspired to them. 2nd Timothy 3:16 can be...

It's better than the Masoretic. It was produced by Christians. It's better when your Holy book is produced by your people, rather than the enemy of your people. It's centuries earlier, as well. It isn't perfect. Translating it into Greek has the same effect as adding niqqud - it removes...

You asked 'who is lying?' between you and marks. Here's my advice for you: a.) Don't ask if you don't want the answer, buddy! And the evidence? It's abundantly clear. You've repeated the logical fallacy in this post: The answer to the question (which is not marks' question, but a strawman...

Uh... you. You definitely straw-manned his argument by re-stating it differently than what he said. The question mark is actually the give-away.

"To preserve the traditional reading of the Hebrew" is a very politically correct way of saying it. "To preserve the Pharisee reading of the Hebrew," comes closer to the truth. "To prevent the Christian reading of the Hebrew" might be most honest. The original Hebrew scriptures were (are)...

The vowels aren't missing. You're talking about the niqqud - the diacritical marks added to the Hebrew language by the Masoretes roughly 2,000 years after the Old Testament was originally written. They aren't original to the text, so nothing is missing. The Masoretes added the niqqud to...

In the earliest manuscripts, the name is usually abbreviated to just ΙΣ or ΙΥ. Also, that form of abbreviation is used primarily for the names of deities.

There are way more than four generals who were involved in the split. Perdiccas, Antipater, and Antigonus were important early on. It's notable that Seleucus and Cassander were not among the first diadochi. Perdiccas was assassinated by his own army, including Seleucus, who became Satrap of...

You skipped the Seleucid Empire