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reply posted on 11-11-2002 @ 10:46 PM by Netchicken
Good gracious I am about to have a serious talk with FM

Originally posted by FreeMason
it just says "Good News Bible, Today's English Version"



FM The GNB is a nice version but it is written for easy reading, you need a study bible to get to the true heart of the matter. There is a thread here on good study bibles...

I also use this..

www.blueletterbible.org...

you can cut and paste verses from there to here in a wide range of versions. Its great.


And NetChicken, you say that the "old gods" are forgotten, not existant anymore. And yet Wiccanism or whatever is the fastest growing religion in the world Are they "old gods" returning? Your comments please.


The old gods are forgoton but they also return under differnent names. The old gods comprise 2 types, human ideals and satanic entities. The entities are still around, the ideals are timeless.

As to "the fastest growing religion" firstly no big deal, its growing from nothing so its still a statistical blip. Secondly, its a wishy washy set if ideals to live by (as far as I know), does that make it a religion?


reply posted on 12-11-2002 @ 07:14 AM by John bull 1
How old is the Royal Plural?

www.us-israel.org...

ó Early Hebrew religion was polytheistic; the curious plural form of the name of God, Elohim rather than El, leads them to believe that the original Hebrew religion involved several gods. This plural form, however, can be explained as a "royal" plural. Several other aspects of the account of Hebrew religion in Genesis also imply a polytheistic faith.

ó The earliest Hebrew religion was animistic, that is, the Hebrews seemed worship forces of nature that dwelled in natural objects.

ó As a result, much of early Hebrew religion had a number of practices that fall into the category of magic: scapegoat sacrifice and various forms of imitative magic, all of which are preserved in the text of Genesis .

ó Early Hebrew religion eventually became anthropomorphic, that is, god or the gods took human forms; in later Hebrew religion, Yahweh becomes a figure that transcends the human and material worlds. Individual tribes probably worshipped different gods; there is no evidence in Genesis that anything like a national God existed in the time of the patriarchs.

www.columbia.edu...

While the prescript indicates that the letter was addressed by Alexander to the Chians, its original form seems to have been altered in the process of transcription at Chios: note the differing forms of reference to Alexander in the third person, the use of what appears to be the royal plural in the provision about the Chian triremes, and the ambiguous ìusî (a royal plural, or does it refer to the Chians themselves?) in the last sentence but one

Apologies for manic cut and paste.
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