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Thank you for taking the time to provide such a detailed and methodical explanation. Unfortunately, some forum members worship the Bible - their English language Bible - and no matter how much effort is made to relate back to the original language text, their minds are fixated on what they choose to believe.

No so accurate...Our minds are fixated on the God breathed written words of God as opposed to the tradition of men and your religion...

You are clearly suggesting that your church tradition trumps the God inspired words of God...

You claim your religion wrote the scriptures...But yet, you can't reconcile your religion with the scriptures...

The English translations that you appear to have so little respect for DO relate back to your 'original' language text...

Your religion has translated the 'original' language into English on numerous attempts...But it seems that it never gets it right...Because you're always correcting it...How is that??? You have the correct translation so you say; well why not get it all together and make the 'only' real translation into English, once and for all???

How did your church get 'cloths' into the English bibles it wrote and now claim it is the wrong word???

I think it's like they say, 'all the bats are not in the belfry'...

You claim your religion wrote the scriptures...

Now where is that claim? Post a link to NYer making that claim.

...But yet, you can't reconcile your religion with the scriptures...

Actually, neither NYer nor anyone else cannot reconcile Catholicism with your own personal interpretation of Scripture.

And so what?

"You are clearly suggesting that your church tradition trumps the God inspired words of God..."

Not trying to derail the thread here, but your own Bible states the primacy of Church authority (and no, Catholics don't claim the Church "trumps" the Scriptures).

"...that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth."

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+3%3A15&version=KJV

We've been through this so many times on so many threads, so I don't want to open it up again, but I couldn't leave you in the dark about this. Catholics have a Church-based Bible, not a Bible-based church. There's a big difference there.