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It's nice to know that a guy like you armed with an interlinear bible with absolutely no training in Greek or Hebrew and a copy of Strongs is more qualified to interpret the scriptures than all the Hebrew and Greek scholars in the Catholic and Protestant churches who have lived over the past 2000 years.

You should teach a class or maybe start your own Religion. But I have a feeling that your religion was started about 150 years ago by one Charles Russell.

To be fair, there are several passages that are routinely mis-translated, Marlowe. Nearly all translations misrepresent the tens of thousands of Jewish believers in Acts 21:20 as merely "thousands," and I've only found one translation that gets Hebrews 4:9 correct--it's not "rest," nor is it "Sabbath-rest"--the word means "Sabbath-keeping," just for two examples.

Still, simply saying, "Look, I have a Strong's!" is non-starter. So do a ton of the people who believe in the Trinity. If one's going to try to overthrow a whole theology, one had better be prepared with actual arguments.

Shalom.

You should teach a class or maybe start your own Religion.

If anyone is planning to start a new religion, especially one that denies two thousand years of Christian belief, I would suggest a "megachurch" and eventually a weekly TV show. The trick is to get as many members as possible and to give regular (at least monthly) sermons on tithing. Then speak of how God wants everyone to be very wealthy and use yourself as an example.

Know that you will probably burn in Hell for leading so many astray and you will be ridiculed endlessly for your bizarre beliefs; but if you do it right, your earthly rewards will at least be plentiful.

It's nice to know that a guy like you armed with an interlinear bible with absolutely no training in Greek or Hebrew and a copy of Strongs is more qualified to interpret the scriptures than all the Hebrew and Greek scholars in the Catholic and Protestant churches who have lived over the past 2000 years.

Your sarcasm is noted.

Do you really think that one must attend a seminary to understand the Bible?

If the concordances, interlinears, etc aren't for the lay person then what good are they?

I was under the impression that Martin Luther shattered the elitist notion that only the Chosen Few could read and interpret God's will for us....but maybe I was wrong?

Funny how you saw and defended the clarity of the verse in Leviticus as being solid, clear, and straight forward enough to possibly adjust your thinking but now you can't or won't.

Look at the many differences between Jesus and God.

Now if someone wants to claim that Jesus has divine blood because of his miraculous conception (you do agree with me on that, don't you?) and that his blood never mixed with humans descended from Adam then I can't argue with you. That pure, innocent blood is the only means by which our sins could be cleansed and forgiven.