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<p>ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — A court has given death sentences to five of eight Somalis convicted of murder and accused of belonging to an armed Islamic organization, the Ethiopian News Agency reported Friday.</p> <p>The eight were convicted in the deaths of 36 people in attacks in Addis Ababa and a southeastern Ethiopian city six years ago.</p>

Language constantly changes. For instance, if you have ever seen a copy of the 1611 King James translation, you know that the English of that translation is completely incomprehensible to today's English reader. We preach and teach from the King James translation here at Bob Jones University, but it is the translation of 1769. Between 1611 and 1769, English changed drastically. It continues to change. Words take on new meanings and associations. Until the late 1940s, the strongest Bible believing Christians distinguished themselves from religious liberals by the term "Evangelicals." When the strongest Evangelical group of the day, the National...