Re: Making money from Java

Judson McClendon wrote:

>
> "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of
> these is charity." (1 Corinthians 13:13, KJV)
>
> I agree that the Bible teaches charity (giving to the needy), but the
> translation of 'charity' here is archaic, and is correctly translated 'love'
> in modern English translations.

Judson, your statement ought to scare the oxygen out of the lungs of any
Bible believer. What you're saying is that (a) the Bible doesn't mean
what it says or (b) the Bible hasn't been translated properly from the
original Greek or Aramaic or whatever. It's my understanding that the
word "Charity" in this context comes from the KJV. NB - you use the
word "correctly"! By this you have to mean that the KJV is
"incorrect"! The KJV has been wrong for all the centuries of its
existence!

How can you use the Bible as your authority if you also say that this or
that word or sentence (or even version) is not "correct" or "is a better
translation"? If you allow that, then you can't possibly state that any
one version is correct. Nor can you object if I put forward my own
interpretation. If any version can be correct or incorrect depending on
the circumstances - what authority can it possibly have?

(My brother, who teaches Chrisian ethics and has a degree in Divinity
tells me that the word "bedlam" originally referred to a bakeshop. Take
it from there).

I was not pleased when you answered my question about defining
"conservatism" by describing your Christian principles. I feel that
introducing religion into a debate such as this - which is long since
WILDLY off topic - moves it to a matter of faith, not fact: then an
attack on your statements becomes an attack on you, which isn't fair - a
man's principles are his own - but not possible to avoid. So please
accept my apologies for questioning the very basis of your faith, but I
can't avoid it.

PL
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