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To: presently no screen name

>>The RCC’s bible is their catechism, man made doctrine/traditions. <<

Unless and until you are working from the Bible in its original languages, you are merely interpreting it (and even then it is interpretation since so much is expressed in stories and parables).

It is the height of hubris (not unknown amongst those who little to nothing about Catholicism) to suggest that another interpretation, based on over a thousand years of study, is somehow less than your handful of years in what could best be described as a bastardized version: be it the King James (considered by scholars to be the worst translation ever) or, worse still, the modern English version.

How’s your Aramaic? Hebrew? Greek?


254 posted on 12/05/2010 8:36:33 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Lt. Drebin: Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.)
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272 posted on 12/05/2010 8:46:18 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: freedumb2003

> “...be it the King James (considered by scholars to be the worst translation ever)”

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Accidental mistake, or deliberate falsehood?

Actually, by true scholars analysis, it is among the best, but not to be considered a complete treatise either.

The basic doctrines are the same in all the major translations. The important issues that are popping up now are due to the failure of the basic Greek to pass the meaning of the hebraic idioms through. This failure affects all of the commercially prodeced versions, including the KJV, Geneva, NASB, NIV, RSV, and the Douay.


275 posted on 12/05/2010 8:47:37 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: freedumb2003; presently no screen name
It is the height of hubris (not unknown amongst those who little to nothing about Catholicism) to suggest that another interpretation, based on over a thousand years of study, is somehow less than your handful of years in what could best be described as a bastardized version: be it the King James (considered by scholars to be the worst translation ever) or, worse still, the modern English version. How’s your Aramaic? Hebrew? Greek?

How's YOURS?

You're passing judgment on the quality of the translations of King James and other versions.

On what authority do you base THAT?

How fluent are you in Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic?

300 posted on 12/05/2010 9:02:41 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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