The Bible doesn't tell Christians to "go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every person."
It says "go ye into all the COSMOS, and preach the gospel to every CREATURE."
5 posted on 12/17/2002 3:29 PM MST by crystalk
Could you provide the chapter and verse and the translation for the above.
Barukh haba b'Shem Adonai
Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord
Y'shua HaMashiach
chuck <truth@YeshuaHaMashiach>
If all one is going to do is look in a dusty commentary from hundreds of years ago, and recite to me that that long-dead author claims that kosmos means "world," then you have a tautology. Since old habit was to do that, and old habit is what you are quoting, then of course old habit is the only way to think!
Garbage in, garbage out!
I never said the KJV translators were STUPID, or that they didn't find "world" in their Greek dictionaries as the meaning of "kosmos." I am saying it is time to expand our understanding, think outSIDE the book.
At least the KJV had the grace to correctly translate "creature"-- that is half the battle.
My opponents are invited to tell me what EARTHLY creatures, other than humans, they are preaching the gospel to, or planning to do so soon.
I am going to call them speciesists for refusing to preach to gorillas and chimps.