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Comment on The lost art of humility: homosexuality and usury by Agnosis demands humility - Christian Writer

Agnosis demands humility - Christian Writer — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 11:05:19 +0000

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Comment on The Sheep, the Goats, and the Judgment by sheckyshabaz

sheckyshabaz — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:01:00 +0000

So the entire point of Christ going through what he went through and the entire purpose of life and creation was for the ability to go to heaven once you die rather than waiting? Sadly the bible does not teach that method. Beyond that, not a single person can explain the spirit or spiritual blessings. You’ve been duped.

Comment on On placing God inside and outside of boxes by dennis richardson

dennis richardson — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 03:59:00 +0000

Freemasonry inside Christianity perverting the gospel. The Southern Baptist Convention, so wrapped up in “abused” minorities that Russell Moore has lead the SBC to becoming the Revelation church of Sardis, “of having a reputation of being alive, but it is dead”. I have seen Free masonry in the work place become militant against any employees to resist their conversion efforts. Jesuit Pope Francis, his Protestant allies will be exposed as Freemasons. Copeland’s ministry will fall 2018?

Comment on Lord of the Sabbath: a pun of apocalyptic proportions? by Steve Douglas

Steve Douglas — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:38:00 +0000

I will point out that the LXX does use the term κύριος σαβαωθ in Isaiah 1.9.

But a more striking objection you point out would be that the Pharisees are not shown reacting to it. Still, they didn’t erupt in anger when he used the term “Son of Man” of himself, and that role was as the explicit agent of God in Daniel, acting as a commander of armies–the lord of hosts. So I’m not certain the pun, even if apprehended by the Pharisees, would have engendered any more of a negative reaction than they were already giving him about the Sabbath.

All that said, I’m not sold on it. I think there’s a link there, but I can’t figure out where it starts.

Comment on Lord of the Sabbath: a pun of apocalyptic proportions? by Robert Atwood

Robert Atwood — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 19:00:00 +0000

I ran across this posting by means of an internet search keyword “saboath”. My search was prompted by the curious fact that Origen in Contra Celsum consistently refers to the Jewish God as “Saboath”, following the lead of Celsius. From my readings in Hellenistic Egyptian magical texts I recall a prominence of this term. Why such prominence? Given that the languages were primarily spoken and heard, the possibility of a pun in this text seems plausible. Unfortunately we do not know exactly what spoken Hebrew sounded like in 1st century Galilee (Galileans probably spoke Hebrew with an accent somewhat different from Jerusalem Hebrew, so it seems pointless to decide the matter by appeal to “different letters” in written Hebrew. As a pun, it would “make sense” in Hebrew, but it would be difficult to produce in Hellenistic Greek. The sound of Hebrew at this point in time and in this place (Galilee) was probably phonetically interacting with both Aramaic and Hellenistic Greek. The LXX translates the Hebrew “Lord of Hosts” as ὁ βασιλεὺς τῆς δόξης. Given the NT’s general dependence on the LXX one can see the problem of associating “Lord of the Sabbath” with the common Greek translation (which is really an Interpretation). Perhaps the real problem with the hypothesis is that the Pharisees do not react to it (in the text) — but clearly we do not have a verbatim transcript but an edited text.