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I hate to be contradictory, but... archaeology knows about a LOT of writing from Moses' day and earlier. We have Egyptian writing that's 2,000 years before Moses. We KNOW Moses was educated as a Prince of Egypt. We have Amorite writing 400 years earlier than Moses. We KNOW Moses conquered...

If you're qualifying it as "I think" or "seems to me" then you're not saying it's a fact. That seems fine... to me. :funlaugh2

You basically just said that dynamic equivalence allows the translator to make the text say... whatever they want it to. Isn't that a problem? The NIV is garbage

That's about the 5th biggest problem with the NIV. From the preface to the NIV: Did you get that? It sounds reasonable at first, but in practice it means that the translators didn't preserve the grammar of the original language, nor is there ANY correspondence between any single English word...

Most of these have nothing to do with gnosticism, and everything to do with the fact that the NIV is just not a very good translation.

Yes, Sar is the etymological root of Tsar, Czar, and Caesar. In the early-middle Bronze age and perhaps earlier, where the primary conflict was between those establishing agriculture and cities (farming), and those retaining the nomadic way of life (ranching), a Sar is the head of a nomadic...

Are these playing cards? "Sar Persia" is an interesting title. Most people don't know the word Sar

I am fairly certain Revelation wasn't thinking of today when those things were written, but... The shoe does seem to fit preeeetty well. Chalking it up to the cyclical nature of history, and the natural tendence of prophecy to be filled over and over and over again.

It seems to me that God went to quite a bit of trouble to establish a nation that WASN'T built around race. Starting with Abraham, God makes the election about belief in a promise and the testation of a covenant. The promise? to make Abraham a "father of nations." He then casts away Ishmael...

"It's interesting when you're sitting in a room full of witches, and the real conversation is why they left the church." oof

Those 4 references are actually just one story - the one where Jesus throws the money-changers out of the temple. The problem there is not doing business at church. The problem there is UNJUST SCALES. The Sadducees who controlled the temple in the first century would ONLY transact in...

The church is not meant to be primarily a school. It's meant to be a community. Being a community involves a little teaching, mostly to children. But it should also involve things like raising barns and houses, using each other's businesses, spending leisure time together, organizing...

Moses married into a family of priests... but not an Israelite one. He married the daughter of Jethro the High Priest of Midian, whose race was actually Kenite (a descendant of Esau). There's a pretty robust scholarly argument that the Kenites were a tribe of Scribes, and Moses inherited a lot...

But Amigo... Moronica is for the Morons. It says so right on the flag:

King James' English, clearly :tonguewink: Not Hebrew. We can trace the creation of the Hebrew language to two older languages - Amorite and Egyptian. The answer is a little more complicated than expected. People had many different languages prior to the Tower (e.g. Akkadian, Sumerian...

The word "angel" (ἄγγελος) primarily means messenger. Angels wouldn't be very good messengers if they didn't speak our language.

I don't think that being Christian is really a factor. Historically, Judaism is an enemy of Christianity. Besides, there's a real case to be made that the modern Israeli nation isn't even related to the Israel of the Bible. Not after the flesh, and certainly not after the spirit. That said...

There's a real case to be made that the modern Israeli nation isn't even Israeli. Neither after the flesh nor after the spirit.

I have become convinced somewhat recently that the "Judaism" we have known for the last two millennia is actually the national religion of the Edomites. And the historical "Jews" as well, seem to be Esau's heirs, rather than Jacob's. Cousins... of the stock of Abraham... but not the elect...

Barb! Hi:waves: