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http://www.biblegateway.com/
they added the NRSV a while back which should be the go-to English translation.
Do you know what week yet?
#FreeScheck
#FreeSKFM
starting to become convinced the thing with the girl is still going on mainly because it's easier to keep doing it than not.
which is a common theme in my reasons for doing things!
I do vaguely recall the Jewry still being A Thing in the Duniverse.
Which I suppose is apropos given Frank Herbert's use of Hebrew throughout the book (ie. Kwisatz Haderach).
What is that from?
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I don't think it's supposed to not be transparent and be all exotic. He coulda just invented some crystal dragon jesus sci fi religion if he wanted to.
Ah yeah since he said simply "the bible" I assumed he meant the New Testament. I don't know Hebrew, so I can't qualify the original writing of the Old Testament, the Septuagint itself being a translation.
"gospel" means "good news" and, as the word is used today, means a story about Jesus (edit: in contrast to a story about the resurrected Christ, which is what most of the religion is about). In the canonized four in the NT, they all consist of a short description of parts of his life (to provide context) then get on to their main focus which is his death.
(note: all of the titles are later additions, we have no idea who wrote any of the Gospels though it wasn't who they are named for)
Most of the rest of the "books" in the NT are letters from early Christians that got preserved or, in some cases, forged in the name of early Christians (ie: about half of Paul's letters are forgeries). Hebrews is mistakenly ascribed to Paul but that was a later error not a deliberate forgery (it is a 2nd century copy of a sermon).
There is also the book of Acts which was written by whoever wrote Luke as a companion volume describing what happens after Jesus' death.
And finally there is an "Apocalypse" (ie: Revelations) which was a popular literary genre of the time.
the Tanakh (or "Old Testament" / "Hebrew Bible") is actually a much more complicated story.
Portlandia.
He's singing Portland's Municipal Anthem.
although Julian himself was not one to point fingers. The guy was widely ridiculed in his own time for his attempts at philosophy and wrote an entire book defending his ridiculous beard.
you can read all of Mark and Matthew in that light if you remove the birth narrative from Matthew. Which is exactly what a sect known as the Ebionites did in the first couple centuries.
The grammar was at least usually right, however.
this is almost certainly the right thing to do
What about the doctor that traveled across the desert, and then convinced the Freman to hoard their wealth.
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Interesting. What is your opinion on it?
I prefer ex that got pregnant. That's a good kind of ex.
Pregnant and still as crazy.
Portlandia.
I just need to.
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Yep.
This is ex that got hot and has awesome jobs where she travels around and meets awesome and interesting people.
I am completely happy for her, but, yeah, stupid emotions.
Anyway, off for work.
I'm going to go to bed and not waste good eggs for no reason but anyway
I only have rapeseed oil at the moment. Should I get some olive oil for it yay or nay.
Again I think I prefer ex that stayed crazy, got knocked up. And it's aaaaall schadenfreude on my part.
depending on how much garlic you put in you won't be able to tell much difference.
I think he was a bog standard first century Jewish apocalypticist. His message was that the world was in an age of evil but that, very soon, the present age would come to an end and a redeemer (not him) would destroy the empire of Rome and set up a new, independent, political, earthly nation of Judah in this world (ie: not about the afterlife).
This all was going to happen very soon, within the lifetimes of his followers, and they should strive to be as holy as possible (living and supporting each other in their small communities in what we would think of as a total communism) and prepare themselves for this imminent end / rebirth. As such his teachings did not much care about the long term functioning of a society but merely with dealing with the present evil age for a short time.
He was totally Jewish and was very riled up at those different forms of Judaism which disagreed with his (ie: Pharisees). The early first century was a time with many many different kinds of Judaism coexisting and competing (though the kind that survived, Rabbinic Judaism, didn't exist yet as it was a response to the same situation as Christianity - the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE).
I'm interested in whether his doctrines like turning the other cheek, his big emphasis on mercy and forgiveness, etc, were actually novel and revolutionary for the time, or whether these were even really major components of his philosophy as opposed to just the apocalyptic message.
He was just roughly 1900 years too early.
the recipe I'm going to loosely follow suggests one clove to three yolks and one desiliter of oil
i just used up most of my Stuff I Do lately
If the Jews weren't so awful to occupy it might not of taken that long.
But Jews loved rebelling every few years.
By the time of the beginnings of Islam, one particular form of Christianity had totally won out and pretty much obliterated the others.
The first three centuries of the religion were very diverse with quite amazingly different versions competing (the differences between Mormons and Catholics today are pretty small in comparison).
but then you get the Emperor Constantine. At the start of his reign the religion as a whole had been growing at a steady pace (about the same growth rate as Mormonism in the US since its founding) and comprised maybe 5% of the Roman Empire. Mostly among the urban poor.
Constantine converted and singled out one particular form of the religion to receive the patronage, and military backing, of the state. He also happened to live for quite a long time and so his support had plenty of time to really take root in society. Not long after his death, 50% or more of the population of the Empire was Christian.
That was the real birth of the religion of Christianity as we know it. Both in terms of doctrine but more importantly in terms of demographics.
Every form of Christianity which survived is a direct descendant of the proto-orthodox of Constantine. All the others were wiped out (often in very bloody fashion).
Tree of Liberty
Blood of tyrants
etc
And I'd call it the Snail Car, or S-Car for short.
and then I'd drive really fast and all the people would say,
"Look at that S Car go!"