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To: shrinkermd
A later author must have changed or altered the original text.

There is no evidence to come to this conclusion.

It's our MODERN use of language that has changed.

If, somehow, all of the slang phrases that infest our society now, becomes engrained and common useage, then ANOTHER 'new' translation will come come along to help those future folks understand the information conveyed in the old language.

Just as hardly anyone can understand Elizabethan English (think KJV)

"Wist thou not?"

58 posted on 12/13/2006 2:24:44 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie
"...Homosexuality refers to sexual and romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. The first recorded use of the word was in 1869 by Karl-Maria Kertbeny, but the prevalence of the concept owes much to the work of the German psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing and his 1886 work Psychopathia Sexualis. As such, the current use of the term has its roots in the broader 19th century tradition of personality taxonomy. These continue to influence the development of the modern concept of sexual orientation, gaining associations with romantic love and identity in addition to its original, exclusively sexual meaning.

I guess it must be a miracle. The Apostle Paul used the word "homosexual" 2000 years before it appeared in English dictionaries.

59 posted on 12/13/2006 2:40:27 PM PST by shrinkermd
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