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To make a snide comment about how the reader does not understand the terminology used in the Middle East is rather lame. If this is a prerequisite, then the whole Bible- thing is out since it is kind of based there and the terminology of THE ENTIRE THING would be , in your view, unintelligible.

Let me make sure I understand your position correctly. In order to fully understand Scripture it is important to never attain any knowledge about the customs and language of the peoples found within.

That's where you want to plant your flag? On perpetuating misconceptions due to linguistic and cultural differences?

In reading some of your previous posts, I had the impression that you were a serious person.
Your attempt to set -up a straw man argument here, disabuses me of this notion.
On this entire thread, most of the Roman Catholics are routinely smug and frankly, ridiculous.
The character named Salty Joe mixes the KKK, George Bush and Calvin into a lunatic brew.
The man who calls himself Cronos puts Bible believing Christians with Moslems rather stupidly.
And you make a false statement about how my position does not allow for any textual understanding of the Holy Bible because I do not agree that brothers and sisters means not brothers and sisters.
You know that you are simply avoiding the facts that I offer. I do not ask that you agree with my belief. Frankly, I agree that these are things that are debated, as are all the major theological differences between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.
Your tactics are easy , cheap and false.

All I pointed out was that the customs and culture dictates the language -- the very term brothers and sisters includes cousins in the Middle East -- even unto today. These terms aren't used in the West in the same way, hence the confusion. As in the discussion I'm having with my Eastern brethern, you can see that there have been faults because of language -- human faults. The Spanish priests put in the Filioque to make things clearer when they were battling heresy. While it meant what the GReeks and Latins knew, yet, when translated, it seemed irrevocable heresy to the Greeks (and rightly so). Ditto with customs and perspective on the 4th Crusade. The West thinks of it one way, the East in another. Culture and language can keep us apart -- we ARE mere mortals after all and fallible in our ways. Similarly I point out that the Word of God is infallible, but OUR petty human interpretation is fallible, even when inspired by the Holy Spirit, it would be difficult for us to contemplate the magnanimity that is God -- like getting a 3 month old to understand the string theory in physics. Actually, it would be worse than that.