wynfranc@yahoo.com wrote:

> Jesus Life in 3 stages :
>
> I. Before Jesus came to Earth.

Gross fundamentalistic assumption Number One: Jesus is
bound by time. (Scripture denies this.) This simple
fact makes your whole post pure fantasy.

Bart

((( s.r.c.b-s is a moderated group. All posts are approved by a moderator. )))
((( Read http://srcbs.org for details about this group BEFORE you post. )))

John McComb schrieb:
> Razzer wrote:
>
>
>>Hello.
>>
>>After reading this group's FAQ on the "almah" dispute, I was wondering
>>more and more about the accuracy of the Septuagint. I understand from
>>the FAQ that it was translated by those who were fluent in the
>>language, and I also understand from a quick search that it is rather
>>close to the Masoretic text. However, I was rather curious if there was
>>any more information on the original translators. While they have may
>>have been fluent in their language, were they fluent in Greek?
>>Moreover, was Greek still at a stage where there was really no one
>>unified dialect but several slightly differing ones? Then was the
>>Septuagint widely accepted, or was it confined to a few groups?
>
>
> I'm not the expert you seek but I have to wonder.
> Why would anybody employ translators without the
> proper skills for such an ambitious undertaking?
>
> Anyway, the Apostles didn't seem to have a problem
> with it. In fact, I don't think the first century
> Jews had a problem with it either. That is, until
> the early church embraced it so closely.
>
> Yours in Christ
>
> John
>

They lived in Alexandria, where Greek was spoken in the streets. Were
probably born there. It is like having an Egyptian imam born and bred in
Germany. He would be well qualified to translate the Koran into German.
Now take 70 such imams and set them the task of doing it together...

Luther translated the bible on his own and what a mighty piece of
scholarship it was an still is!

M.

((( s.r.c.b-s is a moderated group. All posts are approved by a moderator. )))
((( Read http://srcbs.org for details about this group BEFORE you post. )))

surfunbear@yahoo.com wrote:


> I've never heard a single christian sermon on Enron or any other
> corporation in the context of greed. My mother's friends said she
> heard one, but apparently they are in short supply.

Luther had (at least) one. It seems to apply to Enron et al.,
very well:

http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/catechism/web/ca
t-08.html

Bart