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Matthew 16: 27-28 “For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and will then repay every man according to his deeds. Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.“
Which is interpreted by most scholars as "standing in this very spot in the future". The Son of Man has not "come back with his angels" nor has he judged the world. It also leaves out the manifestation of the Beast system in Revelation that matches Islam tit for tat.
"Which is interpreted by most scholars as "standing in this very spot in the future."
By "interpreted" you mean twisted. They tasted death. It said they will not taste death until he comes back to judge the world. Unless you think they are going to stand in that very spot in the future, and then die a second time, which is just doing mental gymnastics, then there is no way around it.
"The Son of Man has not "come back with his angels" nor has he judged the world."
Exactly, he had to come back to judge the world before they died, but he didn't, so it was a false prophesy.
"It also leaves out the manifestation of the Beast system in Revelation that matches Islam tit for tat."
I don't see how that changes the fact that it's a failed prophesy.
I didn't get it from an atheist site. I'm very familiar with what's the in the Bible. I studied it for many years and know it far better than most Christians. Besides, even if it was from an atheist site, it wouldn't make any difference. That's just an ad hominem that avoids addressing my arguments. If you think my interpretation is wrong, then offer an alternative interpretation that actually fits the context, and doesn't ignore key parts of the verse.
Read chapter 17, immediately following Jesus' promise that some there with Him would see Him in His kingdom...he was referring to the very next thing recorded which He did, when He took John, James, and Peter up into the mountain and showed them His glory, when He was transfigured in front of their eyes and His face shined like the sun.
Don't let these mental midget atheist get away with their stupid copy and pasted brainwashed rhetoric which always uses half truths and twists them around with all kinds of mental gymnastics...all they are doing is trying to justify their own lusts, and they are trying to pull others down to Hell with them.
Did he "repay every man according to his deeds" when they went up into the mountain? No, so it's obviously not referring to that and you're the one that is doing mental gymnastics to try to avoid facing the fact that Jesus is a false prophet and isn't coming back.
Your lad Hay-Zoose has been dead as the sodding door nail for 2000 years now and he ain't coming back, mate. And if I had me a bloody shilling for every time one of you godists said the end was nigh, I'd have me enough money to buy me own pub!
Why don't you go tell some Muslims that Muhammed was a liar and God is dead, I'm sure you are as brave with them as you are here...coward.
Please go show what a man you are, talk to Muslims the way you talk to Christians. I will cheer your bravery and the world will be spared any more of your polluted mouth.
If you want to educate yourself and stop looking like a fool, you might want to read farther along in that passage which continues in chapter 17, about Jesus taking some of those standing there with Him up into the mountain. He took with Him Peter, James, and John...
17 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
Jesus showed Himself in His glory as the KING of Kings, in His Kingdom, and they saw Him exactly as He said they would.
If you look at the things happening in the world, falling right in line with Bible prophecies for the end of days, and you can't see it is all happening exactly as the Bible foretold, you are either blind or willfully ignorant.
You are obviously ignorant of the Bible, you have displayed that clearly. You should get some education before you pretend to know what you are talking about.
It's the best way for any bloke to be, mate. That is...To be ignorant of the Bible. Given that the Bible is a right ignorant book, eh mate?
Only wankers take that shite serious like. Us reasonable chaps know that it's all mythological bollocks. Not to be meant as literal. That's like coming out of the picture show after seeing Superman and wondering where Gotham city is and how you can go on holiday there and nick a peek at Superman.
Grow up, mate. Put on some long pants. LOL. Don't be so bleeding daft.
World...the place inside Buddym's brain which is beyond understanding. I hope that clears things up for you. I know public education is failing today, but when I was in school I learned the definition of the word "world" around the age of six.
it is too bad people like you can't get yourself out of dying, it's too bad you think you can justify your life even though you can't keep yourself alive, it's too bad you're on your way to Hell.
It doesn't sound like you think it's to bad. It sounds like you are gloating. What would jesus think of you trolling and damning people to hell? If you were a christian and cared for peoples souls you would act with humilty and loving kindness. Leave the damning to God.
Obviously you are not a Christian as you do not know what you are talking about. People are damned by their own choice, "damned" being the same as condemned. I suggest you pretend to be a Christian and open your Bible to John 3:18 and John 3:36. These fools who deny the deity of Christ are condemned, dead in their sin, on their way to Hell and it's not my judgement and it's not my choice for them to go there...they are making their own choice and somehow I think you are one of them, pretending to be good so you feel you can earn the right to exist outside of Hell...typical Catholic, not saved, on your way to Hell trusting in yourself rather than in the blood of Christ who died in your place to save you from Hell.
You have not really been clear about your beliefs, but you talk exactly like these fool atheists who deny Jesus is God but somehow they think they can judge my character and intent by comparing me to a man who they say is a liar, or a man who they say other people lied about so He is not really who I know Him as, the Living God who created me and took my place on the cross for my sins to save me from Hell in the power of His resurrection. You talk exactly like these fool atheists : " I don't like the way you say sinners are going to Hell, therefore you are not nice enough to be a Christian".
News flash, phony (still not sure, but I think you are being pretty clear that if you call yourself a Christian, you are a Catholic idolitor who worships statues and dead people, and hopes the Poope can keep you out of Hell.)...Jesus flatly told people they were children of Hell, of their father the devil, when they showed by their own words that they rejected Him. These people who will not hear and believe the gospel are on their way to Hell, and I think you don't like hearing that because you are one of them.
I am not a christian. But i group up with it. My whole family is. For their sake I hope it's true. It's not you say people are going to hell. It's that is one of your primary attacks. That and you say it as if you are glad.
I don't think your a christian. I think you are a self rightous fool who enjoys having people to piss on. You are a psychopath at best. I've been on this site for less than two days. So far I have encountered a few of you little psychos claiming to be christians. Really you all are wolves in sheeps clothing. Breaking people down turning them away from the word.
The truly sad thing would be is if you happen to be over 30 years of age and still carry on like this. Christian or not it doesn't mean you can't be civil.
Well sir, pardon me for prodding you a bit disrespectfully, probably more than half the people here are extremely hateful toward God, the Bible, and Christians and sometimes i go off a bit too fast on people who have not been around here much.
I am not attacking people when I tell them they are going to Hell. If you read the gospel accounts of the ministry of Christ, He often told people they were on their way to Hell, and he said it bluntly and called them names as He did it. He was only telling them the truth, and of course they took it as an attack when they should have taken it as a warning and sought God's mercy.
You don't know what a Christian is. They didn't think Jesus Christ was a Christian, that's why they crucified Him. You have to be one to really know what one is, and the only way to become one is by and through Jesus Christ. I don't know what your supposedly Christian friends are telling you, but apparently they are not telling you what Jesus would have told you as He told everybody else around Him before He was crucified. To those who opposed Him, Jesus had nothing nice to say..the truth hurts when you are fighting against it. To those who followed Him, Jesus often said things which did not seem nice and yet His disciples continued looking to Him to for more of what He promised....and that promise is eternal life. Jesus called His own disciples evil, speaking of how even though they are evil they desire good things for their children...and how much more God who is good desires good things for His children. To His followers, Jesus promised that He would make them fishers of men if they follow Him, and if they follow Him the world will hate them the same as they hated Jesus.
I am a sinner who deserves to burn in Hell, deserves nothing good, but God Himself died in my place so He remains just in execution of sin in eternal damnation while in His resurrection He is just to forgive those who seek His mercy and believe on Him, those who will open their door to Him and receive Him as He is, the LORD OF lords and King of Kings. Maybe one day you will pray to God for forgiveness and believe on Jesus and receive Him by faith as your Savior and be saved from Hell, maybe that will be today but I don't think you are ready to admit you deserve to die and burn in Hell, and I think maybe you never will get to that point of being honest about your own sin.
Nobody can justify themselves, we all deserve to die and burn in Hell and by a person's own words you can see what is in their heart...except of course you have a problem seeing that Christ lives in me because you are trying to defend yourself, not wanting to admit you deserve to die and burn in Hell....correct?
Okay, okay, I like your appeal for civility and I have to admit my comment on your demand of clarification of the word "world" was a bit too much fun for me to be considered civil, but your response was much worse that what I did, and you continue to be quite uncivil in the post I am replying to now. If you continue in your lack of civility while you appeal for civility, I will return to my tactic of mocking people who will not listen to reason........and I'm sure your disdain for me will increase if that's the way you want it...Jesus said I should not be surprised when people hate me the same as they hated Him and I am not at all surprised. People who are proud of themselves and on their way to Hell can get quite nasty when you tell them they are sinners who need to be saved from Hell and only God the Savior can save them like He saved me....hahahahah...that really sets them off, when I tell them I'm going to Heaven and I know it and as they stand I know they are on their way to Hell. It's nothing new....Christians and Jews are the hated scapegoats of the whole world......so make your own choice and bear your own consequences if you do not ascertain God's eternal mercy on your life, sinner boy. (I'm a sinner too, but there is a new me who will be revealed in glory to be like Jesus Christ with this body of sin gone and a new body in Heaven, a new body which will not pull me down in sin so that I go off a bit to easily on fool atheists and people who are antagonistic to real Christians.
non-Christians go to church for many reasons, usually is socialization and peer pressure when non-Christians are going to church. Many of them will call themselves Christians because they feel they are being religious and they feel their religion is Christian
Knowing God through Jesus Christ is a father/child relationship in reality. Either you know God through Jesus Christ, or you do not know God. If you do not know God personally, you cannot be in His kingdom, you are not a Christian. You cannot be a Christian one day and not a Christian the next...or by any process of decisions and time.
You know God is against sin, you love your sin more than life, so you want to keep God out of your life. That's all there is to it, you want to justify your sin while it's taking you down in death to Hell. You're failing. Sorry.
There you go to your fake civility again. Funny how fakers like you will appeal to civility then resort to whatever you can come up with to try to attack and smear character of people you disagree with. You're the psychopath, playing your little games because you want to convince everybody that they should approve of your sin.
You're just a punk, you need to be saved from Hell or you will wake up in the fire and you sure won't be able to blame God for not trying to warn you.
I've gone through all of that. I understand very much where you are coming from. I guess you would apply the parable of the seed being planted in swallow ground. At first it takes root and begins to grow. Then it dies because it can grow no more.
The truth is I seriously thought about all of it. Every spare moment was spent studying the word and contemplating it's meaning. Like you I spent a period of time in the early years preaching the end is near repent and be saved. Or face eternal damnation. I looked at it very black and white.
Ok, I'm being nice now, I see you've toned down.....you went through all that but it wasn't real or you could not renounce God's love and the reality of His saving power.
I'm just telling it as it is according to your own words, compared to what the Bible says, using simple logic....
So you were never really a Christian, you thought some of the Biblical teachings made enough sense that you could actually give your time trying to tell others, then you decided there is more pleasure in sin than you get from denying your sinful desires.
You never really believed Jesus is God, you maybe had yourself fooled into thinking you could really believe it, you never really came to terms with God in prayer acknowledging that you cannot justify anything other than God's right to end your time and leave you in Hell as a sinner, you never really received Jesus as your Savior, you never really believed He is risen from the dead, is willing and able to forgive you for the sins He suffered for on your behalf, never really received Him in reality as your Savior.....
And you were never really like me because I really did all the things you really did not, and God really did reveal Himself to me and I really did meet Him personally and I really did open the door to Jesus when I realized He was knocking and wanted to come in and be my life, and I really did find and really do know the love of God, the fellowship of His sufferings, and the power of His resurrection and I never stop growing in the knowledge of His love, His grace, His goodness, His righteousness, His holiness, His justice and judgement, His mercy, His joy, His peace....and so on and so on. The moment I first believed I wanted to tell everybody what I had come to know, and I knew God wanted me to tell everybody and I wish I had told everybody I never ever seen from that day forward and I have fallen short and still fall short...but one day I know I will be like Jesus in His glory forever and God Himself will wipe the tears from my eyes and their will be no more pain, sorrow, or dying for me.
Usually that kind of illogical nonsense is on youtube or facebook. I had hoped not to find it here. It seems like there are quite a few nuts on this site.
Welcome to CD , quiet a few nuts would be an accurate assessment and the one you're communicating with here is in 'healthy competition ' for top spot .
If you're not a Christian you can't group in with it. Jesus said He would cause division. If your family really are Christians, they are children of God and you are a child of sin, of your father the devil. I suspect they are not really Christians but rather some kind of Catholic of liberal group who makes you feel comfortable enough so you feel like you group in with them. You would not feel that way at my church, you would either repent of your sin and get saved and get right with God or you would leave by your own choice. It's rare that the pastor has to ask anybody to leave...he preaches against sin and if they love their sin, they leave.
I don't like to call people stupid. I don't. I don't believe they are. I believe people just are either lacking logic or possess bad logic. Either by ignorance or willful ignorance.
That being said, the 4th edition of websters new world college dictionary has the following definitions for world. 1 a) the earth b) the universe 2 a) mankind ie the world of man. b)people generally; the public. In the public world. In ones own private world. 3 a) somepart of earth( the old world)b) any sphere or domain(the animal world) 4 individual experience or outlook(her world is narrow) I'll skip one.6 a large amount(a world of good). There is a little more but The point is clear that world can have more than one meaning.
Now normally I don't care to entertain those that just insult others. I feel to do so can be a waste of time and if given to much attention will denigrate the conversation .
The question was stupid. You know the meaning of the word "world". Why not just say your piece related to the topic regarding the different usages of the word and how they can apply to the OP?
Any time somebody says "depends on the meaning of the word "is", I find it annoying, they sound like Bill Clinton protege's who learned to disrupt productive civil discourse while pretending to be objective.
Hahahha....Webster's new world college dictionary.....you need the new world dictionary to find the meaning of the word world? Is that so you can be sure the dictionary is for this world and not some other world???
Hhahahh...thanks for the laugh.
Heaven forbid that I should call you stupid, but whoever taught you to interrupt discussion by demanding the definition of simple words did not help you to look intelligent.
Your question was an interruption. You seriously cannot understand the meaning of the word "world" when somebody says the end of the world is near? You seriously need to have a long discussion of the various usages of the word "world" before you can discuss the end of the world? Really?
I think you have been trying to denigrate the conversation here from the first time you posted, and that is why I got on you for demanding a long explanation for a stupid question..."first you must define world before we can discuss the topic".
You sound like one of these college trained punks who learn more about how to disrupt society than how to be productive in it.
How was the topic productive in the first place? This is a debate site. Ideas are discussed and criticism is exchanged. If thats to much for you than go back to call of duty.
If you don't think the topic is productive, why are you sticking your nose in it? I'm beginning to think my first impression was correct and my mocking of you was justified, it sounds like you only want to disrupt.
So you don't think the topic is productive, and that's why you tried to derail it be demanding clarification of the meaning of "world" in "the end of the world is here"?
So I was right and you were being disruptive and now you are being a cry baby because I called you out on it? And you are saying I'm not a Christian because I'm being truthful and the truth hurts?
I wonder how old you are, and I wonder if you learned your tactics in college...there sure are a lot of people on here who play the game the same way.....cheap little tricks, guile...pretending to be civil while being disruptive.
I've learned over the past few years that there is a pretty successful method of telling kids in school how they are supposed to think, talk, and act. So many of these people here say the same things almost word for word and use the same tactics I think it is from college training....I know the colleges spend a lot of time in class teaching kids how to be disruptive, protesters, activists....and it seems to me like you are practicing here and I'm thinking you are a college punk.
I think you know this because I do believe you have at least half of a brain...anybody with half a brain here knows the word "world" refers to either the world as we know it or the whole planet earth. If you can't figure that out, and you can't discuss the topic without sidetracking on all the different meanings and usages of the word "world", your education was a waste.
You might want to continue reading.....I don't think I said "I was wrong", said it could have been handled differently and you were entirely uncivil to me while I poked fun at you but was not uncivil compared to your vicious and baseless insults.
The more you go on the more I think I was right in my first impression..your just a punk trained in public schools which told you what to and how to be disruptive.
And my guess is that you are under thirty, probably closer to twenty.
So have you started reading some good old clean classic American literature out loud to help you get the flow of the language so you can talk without sounding so bitter and angry? The Bible is the first book I recommend, and you might want to try the book Christy about a young missionary lady in the Appalachians.
I'd rather not influence my list by any of your suggestions.
Though incidentally, the Bible is there - YLT version. I've heard that it's been a fine example of storytelling throughout the generations, but considering that it has also influenced some other things, I might not finally read it.
The Bible is still far and away the best selling book of all time. It is the greatest work of literature on the planet, and anybody who is not familiar with it is not properly educated in literature. There are a lot of atheists and people who claim they were Christians but were fakes who say they are familiar with the Bible, they are liars and I can show it easily when they talk about the Bible. You would set yourself a cut above most of these fools here if you read the Bible, follow and understand it's chronology, and get a good working knowledge of it. You may never know God personally, you may never be saved from Hell, but you sure would be more qualified in a lot of discussions than most of these fools here if you get a grasp of the Bible and the flow of it's message which from cover to cover is all about Jesus Christ.
The Bible has shaped languages and cultures by figure of speech standard of ethic,, it has changed continents, countries, and history, and it has changed the lives of millions of people who without pay would resign their lives before they denounce it's Author, God the Savior, Jesus Christ. And in English it is called the King James Bible. The YLT version or any other version does not qualify in any of the statements above, they are not the Bible, they are altered interpretations which all disagree with each other and all disagree with the Bible. Last I heard there were over 200 of them and another 200 expected in the near future.
You're use of the English language is very choppy due to your bitter spirit and limited exposure to English literature. The advice I'm giving here is kind and would be beneficial for you. Follow it or not, it's no difference to me...but you sure could be more pleasant to read.
My use of the language is as fine as could be when it isn't spoken natively here.
You're use of the English language is very choppy
Oh, well... 😁😁😁
And in English it is called the King James Bible. The YLT version or any other version does not qualify in any of the statements above, they are not the Bible, they are altered interpretations which all disagree with each other and all disagree with the Bible.
YLT = Young's Literal Translation
Though some versions, such as the NIV, are interpretations, I doubt you know enough about the YLT to speak on it. Yes, it wasn't ever intended for everyone to read like the KJV was, and has not yet been translated into modern English (unless you count other literal translations such as LITV), so you might not want to read it.
And it is freely available in many formats, something that isn't true for the LITV/KJ3.
Okay. Go on with your choppy language skills which too readily expose your bitterness, keep your feelings on your sleeve....it will help keep attention on you are you prepare to do whatever is you threatened to do in your plan of hurting or killing a large number of people.
I don't need to know much about the YLT to know it is not the Bible. God's word cannot change. When people make a new version, they change God's word so it's not God's word anymore.
I can easily google a list of changes in YLT, and easily show how those changes prove it cannot be God's word. You cannot translated Hebrew or Greek into English literally without losing the thoughts conveyed. God guided the translation of His word into English and it does not change. I spent a full semester in college o this subject before the internet was invented....a full semester of History of the King James Bible. It was brought to us by the blood of martyrs and the record of events leading up to it's translation and completion and how it changed continents and millions of lives is far beyond coincidental. YLT and any other version is a cheap imitation produced for nothing but profit. The King James Bible came through the obedience of Godly men who risked and gave their lives to torture and terrifying methods of execution....men who were convinced God wanted them to translate His word in accord with His will led by His Spirit shortly before English became the closest thing to a universal language since the Tower of Babel.
If you use and read the King James Bible to practice your English, your speech will become more eloquent and better flowing in combination with other classic and clean English literature. If you use stuff like YLT, it will encourage choppiness in your language as all fake Bibles are choppy and far inferior to the beauty of expression in the King's English. Most Christians, even those who do not believe the King James is exclusively the word of God and other translations can be used, still recognize the beauty and majesty of the style, poetry, and prose of the King James Bible. If you read passages side by side out loud, the King James is poetic and colorful clearly far above any other translation...all the others sound like your English...choppy, lifeless.
on you are you prepare to do whatever is you threatened to do in your plan of hurting or killing a large number of people.
I'd like to call it the Replacement.
Because I'll be replacing the world's deities.
I haven't thought yet with what. Any suggestions? (I don't like the Flying Spaghetti Monster enough to use that, so you can keep that in mind if you want to give a suggestion.)
I can see your jealousy in the way you try to string words together to insult me....and really, I take is as a compliment because I can see you are trying to imitate my style...but you fall short because you are bitter and my heart is love even for my enemies, I am not insulting them but telling them the truth in love for their own good if they will receive it. You are bitter and hateful, so your attempts to insult me become very choppy and lacking in color.....overusing word's like idiocy and illiterate.
You'll never match my ability to be sharp of tongue. When I was 12 years old and didn't care about being truthful or hurting peoples feelings I was known in my school as the king of cut-downs. I used to buy joke books and books of one line insults and practically memorize them so I was always loaded and ready to let loose and have fun at the expense of whoever, friend, foe, innocent or guilty...was just fun to me then. (I also took second place for best sense of humor in the mock elections in seventh grade....but I sure had a mean sense of humor sometimes.) I did say sorry to a lot of people over the years, wish I could make everything right.....but you can't undo the past, God has it all on record and all will appear before Him in His Judgment.
The difference between me and you now is that you are standing against Christ, and I am standing under His blood, having begged for and received His mercy, my sins covered by His blood and I am forgiven by Him who conquered death to pull me out of it...and you if you will trust Him...but you probably never will and I hope I'm wrong about that, you are trampling His blood under your feet, it's on your hands, and your blood is on your own head if you will not listen to know His love for you.
That's good preaching. If somebody had given me one tenth of the time I have given you explaining the love of God, I would have gotten saved and became a Christian when I was twelve years old and I would have apologized good to everybody back then immediately and thoroughly.
But sadly, that won't be true. If he has to love me, that also means to hate many others, and it cannot be assumed simply that he would love me. And, of course, he can't be bad even if he hates everyone - you know that already.
You're mind is twisted and you are trying to twist the love of God to fit your twisted mind so you feel justified, feel like you are not condemned in death. If you will not believe God loves you, if you just say "that is not possible", then you can be sure of only one thing, you will never know His love, and believe or not He'll have nothing for you but wrath over your rejection on His love. All you are doing is sealing your bitterness in death.
The only reason people do not want to believe God loves them is that they do not want to side with God against their wrongs. It is wrong for you to accuse God of not being good. All you are doing is by your own choice maintaining a gulf of separation from Him, and that gulf is your sin.
He loves you so much that He took on Himself human form as the Son of God to die in your place. God loves you so much that He gave His only Son for you. He took your sins on Himself, died for you, and offers you forgiveness of your sins because He could not be held by death. He is alive offering you forgiveness, He is God, and there is no greater love than that He died for His enemies.
I don't know what you think love is, but I do know you love your sin more than life and apparently it is a waste of time trying to get you to be reasonable with God.
When you go off in your bitterness like this, this is when I think English is a second language for you as you don't make much sense in your verbiage as you try to express your desire to hack Christians to death........your bitterness causes your wording to be choppy.....and it really sounds like it's cultural, the same as when Arabs get mad and display the common ways Arabs learn to be profane in English.
Please continue stating how you want to physically harm people as I am working on assuring that you are monitored by authorities due to your repeated threats.
I have a Young's Concordance of the Bible, I believe he is the same Young who did YLT.....it's still not the Bible in English. It's different than the Bible. The Bible says, and some versions change or delete the verses, but it plainly says God's word is pure and preserved for all people and cannot be changed, perfect without error down to the tiniest punctuation mark. It states the doctrine of preservation of scripture in dozens of places. You can't change God's word, if you have two books which are different in even the tiniest punctuation mark and both claim to be the Bible, they are both lying or one of them is God's word and the other is fraud. Young will lose a lot of the meaning in his "literal" translation because the ancient languages are not structured and expressed the same as English. He calls his version "literal" as a selling point, as if being literal makes it better....it's not better, it changes God's word, and a lot of the words translated literally fail to convey the same meaning in English that they had in Hebrew or Greek....and then there is the question of which manuscripts he chose to use for his "literal" translation. The King James Bible is unique in the manuscripts used, other manuscripts for hundreds of years were considered corrupt and purposely changed in copying, something forbidden and unheard of among true Jewish scribes whose methods of assuring accuracy were so extensive and painstaking you could write book on that subject alone about their methods and care in passing along and preserving copies.
I have forgotten more of this stuff than you now know....but I still remember the basics and it's all so easy to find now on the internet compared to when I learned it the hard way with pen and paper and hard copy books.
well I have to admit your use of the language does sound here a bit less like it is your second language....but when you try to put insults together, you really sound like English is your second language. Arabs do the same thing, they know a few profanities, slang words, and insult and over use them in their speech..they do the same thing when they are being nice calling everybody "buddy". It's been a couple years since I was around places where a lot of Arabs live, they may have picked up new words now but from what I see on the net, when they are angry or vulgar it's always pretty much the same few insults and profanities they use.
well I have to admit your use of the language does sound here a bit less like it is your second language..
..but when you try to put insults together, you really sound like English is your second language.
Fair enough. It is hard to use informally for me, especially for insults. After all, you rarely use insults that aren't from your native language, even if you know them.
Translation, interpretation...same thing...they are versions, they are not the Bible.
Yeah, I remember YLT now...it never will come anywhere close to the King James Bible because the languages do not flow and express meaning well when they are translated literally........sometimes you have to add in words in English or use different English words to get the correct meaning. And to make matters worse, people who do these modern translations/interpretations are not discerning in rejection of manuscripts which for centuries were rejected by Christians as flawed, changed, corrupt. Now all the sudden today these old rejected manuscripts are pulled up as if they have to be consulted for translation/interpretation. The Latin Vulgate is one of them, there are two basic lines, two basic families of manuscripts and it's been a long time since I got into the details, can find it easily on the web, but I'm pretty sure Young used manuscripts from the line which was historically rejected by all Christian leadership as corrupt for hundreds of years. Now the resurrect all the dead stuff to show how great they are in being "intellectual, scholars'...a bunch of pompous and contentious good for nothing stuff which is dividing churches.
Yeah, I remember YLT now...it never will come anywhere close to the King James Bible because the languages do not flow and express meaning well when they are translated literally..
Sounds much like NIV, which is clearly not the Bible.
Anyway, if that's what you say... My criteria aren't many for deciding the version.
It should be in English. (Middle, modern - doesn't matter much)
It should be authorised enough that if I criticise it, the criticism be applicable to the whole religion. Or as much as possible. And even the scholars should not have an easy way out.
It should be well written and contain both old and new testaments - no partial translation.
Bonus points if it is freely available in eBook formats.
That's all there is, with each criterion being equally important.
Whatever it is you are trying to say, I've lost interest, you don't care if you end up in Hell and you are only going to try to drag me down if I read your stuff.
Whatever it is you are trying to say, I've lost interest, you don't care if you end up in Hell and you are only going to try to drag me down if I read your stuff.
Statistically speaking, we are nowhere near the end of the world. Life on earth is billions of years old, and to think that just a few thousands years people live on this planet will cause the end of the world, thats a risky bet.
I don't believe that the world is ending. Now maybe if we decrease our perspective and add "the end of the world, as you know it" that may be more accurate. The world is changing, mind sets are changing, everything changes so the world as you knew it from 20 or so years ago (before the internet) is different from the world today.
No, the world that we all call "Earth" is not going to end. It has been proven over and over again for over thousands of years that the world is not going to end. More recent example that I can think of is that the world was going to end in 2012. Well, it's 2017 and the world never ended. Sure, maybe the world ain't the best place right now however I don't see any signs of the world ending anytime soon.
