Re: Making money from Java

"Peter Lacey" <lacey@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oliver Wong wrote:
>>
>> "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:3vqqidF16g774U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >
>> > ("...sometimes difficult, perhaps even impossible to express *exactly*
>> > the
>> > same statement in two languages." Yet, people make a living from doing
>> > this every day.)
>>
>> Maybe I'm taking this quotation out of context here, because I don't
>> really understand this Greek/Aramaic "read" verb argument surrounding it,
>> but...
>
> This started because of my challenging Judson on the use of the Bible as
> an absolute authority when the current text changes as required, to make
> a "better translation" or to reflect current language usage.
>
> I said:
>
> __________________________________
>>
>> Don't you think God knew about translations and all the issues from the
>> beginning? And that He made allowances for them? :-)
>>
>
>
> I do; therefore, if God wanted to provide a book of scriptures to his
> devotees (debatable at best, since God by definition is perpetually in
> contact with every spiritual entity in existence, and therefore doesn't
> need any such thing) then it would be so luminously clear that there
> would be no possibility of alternate interpretations, no possibility of
> schisms, no misunderstanding of what was written, and it would be
> impossible to misrepresent. Further, while it would have to be
> retranslated from time to time, there would be no word that couldn't be
> translated by its EXACT equivalent.
>
> ____________________________________
>
> The Bible, after all, is supposed to be God's word. As such, there is
> no way it needs to suffer from all sorts of human faults. I can't
> imagine how God would want it any other way.


Did it ever occur to you that God has knowledge, thoughts and motives that
you don't know about, that are beyond your comprehension? That's what I've
been saying, that a finite created being believing he can know and
understand why God does things, without God telling Him, is arrogance beyond
belief. You actually propose to judge God's actions and motives by your
standards? And you think that isn't arrogance? Wow! :-)
--
Judson McClendon judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove zero)
Sun Valley Systems http://sunvaley.com
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."


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