If you have ever lurked or posted to the Religion Forum, then bump this thread one time

121 posted on 04/28/2004 2:54:35 PM PDT by SunnyUsa

122 posted on 04/28/2004 2:57:04 PM PDT by Biblical Calvinist (Soli Deo Gloria !)

SOLI DEO GLORIA
SOLA SCRIPTURA
"let us arose ourselves to the sternest fidelity,laboring to win souls as much as if it all depended wholly upon ourselves,while we fall back in faith,upon the glorious fact that everything rests with the eternal GOD"
c.h.spurgeon

123 posted on 04/28/2004 2:58:09 PM PDT by alpha-8-25-02 (saved by GRACE and GRACE alone)

To: Fool for Christ

please translate the latin for me.
GODBLESS

124 posted on 04/28/2004 3:00:17 PM PDT by alpha-8-25-02 (saved by GRACE and GRACE alone)

please translate the latin for me.
GODSPEED

125 posted on 04/28/2004 3:01:35 PM PDT by alpha-8-25-02 (saved by GRACE and GRACE alone)

126 posted on 04/28/2004 3:02:33 PM PDT by Aggie Mama

127 posted on 04/28/2004 3:02:45 PM PDT by flevit

Christos Voskrese!

128 posted on 04/28/2004 3:03:10 PM PDT by TotusTuus (Voistinu Voskrese!)

Catholic bump.
Frequent visitor, occasional poster.

129 posted on 04/28/2004 3:06:53 PM PDT by Flying Circus

130 posted on 04/28/2004 3:07:12 PM PDT by knighthawk (Some people say that we'll get nowhere at all, let 'em tear down the world but we ain't gonna fall)

Bump

I've been lurking for quite awhile and decided that this was as good a time as any to register and get my posting feet wet.

The religion threads are my favorites.

131 posted on 04/28/2004 3:08:30 PM PDT by The Lady of Shallot

Religion .... ah, a good place to be .... but a strange word...

Webster's Collegiate Dictionary traces the word back to an old Latin word religio meaning "taboo, restraint." A deeper study discovers the word comes from the two words re and ligare. Re is a prefix meaning "return," and ligare means "to bind;" in other words, "return to bondage." Do you still want some of that "old-time religion"?

"O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you! Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?"

According to the writer Shishron, the origin of the word “religion” is “re-ligere” meaning “to read again.” The religious man is he who remembers what he has become aware of and repeats it as a duty given to him by God.

According to Augustine, the origin of the word “re-eligere” means “to choose again.” Religion, in his opinion, is man’s choosing of God a second time after having lost him through his own lapse—original sin. Religion, then, is the believer’s free choice of God as the second choice of his life in the realm of morals and conduct. Through this relation man pursues God as the source of his happiness, the goal of all his work and efforts and the source of his freedom. The clear emphasis is on the free will of man.

Finally, the intellectual Lactanc states that the origin of the word “religion” is re-ligare meaning “to bind” or “create a relationship.” Therefore, religion is what binds God and man. Again, “It (religion) is the relationship which binds man to God through a bond of love because God is love and man is created in his image and likeness. In this view, the relationship is affective.

The derivation of the Latin was in dispute even among ancient writers: Cicero derived it from relegere meaning read again (re again plus legere to read) Servius and Augustine derived Latin religionem from religare meaning to bind fast, in the sense of place an obligation on . The spelling of the word religion as we know it today is first recorded in about the year 1300.

Religare "Religare" is the latin word for "re-connection" which gave origin to the word "religion".

oh, almost forgot .... bump

132 posted on 04/28/2004 3:10:38 PM PDT by gobucks (http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/laocoon.htm)

133 posted on 04/28/2004 3:12:23 PM PDT by arthurus

134 posted on 04/28/2004 3:15:43 PM PDT by Arguss

135 posted on 04/28/2004 3:16:36 PM PDT by fatima (My Granddaughter Karen is Home-WOOHOO We unite with all our troops and send our love-)

136 posted on 04/28/2004 3:21:55 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky

Regina Caeli, laetare, alleluia.
Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia.
Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia.
Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia.

137 posted on 04/28/2004 3:24:15 PM PDT by Campion

138 posted on 04/28/2004 3:24:17 PM PDT by samiam1972 (Live simply so that others may simply live!)

To: Corin Stormhands

139 posted on 04/28/2004 3:27:11 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" -- Abraham Lincoln)

140 posted on 04/28/2004 3:31:13 PM PDT by catherine of alexandria

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