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Question: Latin Vulgate, Textus Receptus, or common critical text?

You Jesuits got the BSV🍌 memo from the Masons I take it?
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Welcome Father. I hope you stick around.
Peace be with you.

Thanks @27703 ! Love what I'm seeing here. And since Twetch is the future, I'll be here for a while. 😉

I'm pretty sur @27703 is a rockstar. I'm not sure what band he's in tho.

Welcome to Twetch father.

Why did we stop adding stories to the New Testament?

The first step to reconciliation is recognizing our need. God bless you. Now go get them STONKS!

Good question. Shortest answer: The NT contains the letters of Paul & the Apostles, plus the Gospels. These writings were the most heavily circulated and widely accepted at the time (~326 AD), used for worship and to educate about the teachings of Jesus.

Actually, it was the Templars. Nice guess, tho. 🤣

Thanks, @22899! I like the NRSV for English, Strong's for Greek, Vulgate for Latin, Grail for Psalms. The bottom line, however, is I love the Word of God.

Thanks for the reply. I enjoy this conversation.

When you use the Word of God as a proper noun, are you referring to Jesus? Or scripture?

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Well, Jesus is the Incarnate Word of God (Jn. 1:14). St. John made this connection with his use of the Greek word "logos". Sacred Scripture, contains the Word of God as transcribed by the sacred authors under the inspiration of the Spirit.

John also recorded the distinction between Scripture (which bear witness to Christ) that were unable to give eternal life (John 5:39) and the Logos. (which gives eternal life)

Can you show me a scripture verse that says that scripture is the Word of God?

John 5:31-40 is part of an appeal to the Jews who were trying to kill him because he healed on the Sabbath. John is not making a distinction between Scripture & Christ so much as he is showing that Sacred Scripture has been pointing to Christ all along.

So is Scripture deity?

No, Scripture is not deity. That would be pantheistic, right? It does, however, as Jesus says, testify on his behalf, as the apostles did after the Resurrection, and ultimately do by their writings, i.e. Gospels, Epistles, etc. See 2 Pt. 1:12-21.

Either you are lying or failed seminary school 😕. 6 of the 13 letters of Paul are known fakes. What Apostle knew how to write in Greek let alone Aramaic? They were hick fishermen from the country. Why would God communicate to his people in Greek? Welcome!

You tryna make frens?

I did say 'welcome' 👀

Well that was mighty nice of you

Sure, there are letters in the NT attributed to Paul that were not written directly by him. There are also books in the OT attributed to Moses that were not written by him. Does that make them less inspired? And thanks for the welcome, glad to be here.

Do you believe Jesus was a real person? I've been brought back to faith after listening to Jordan Peterson Biblical series. His idea seem to be that Jesus was a combination of heroic people (Meta-Hero) who shows us a way to act in the world.

Jesus was a historical person. We know this from multiple historical records and eyewitness accounts. I would posit that Jesus was not a combination of heroic people, but rather, the true hero that others, whether they realized it or not, were imitating.

Does it concern you how the role of the church has declined in western societies? I'm in Ireland and the church seems to be under constant attack which it doesnt seem to have the confidence to defend itself anymore. It fills me with anxiety.

Why would God create the miracle of inspiring the Bible but not the miracle of preserving it? The first 5000 copies of the NT all differ. We have altered copies of copies of copies. Why did God inspire peasant Jewish fishermen to write in Greek?

Great questions. I’ll answer them for 1 egg

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God certainly did preserve his word.we have it today in the English Authorized Version often called the KJV. The new testament wad written in Greek because it was the universal written language of the gentiles (non Jewish nations) at the time of Jesus.

I personally think, and it's a stretch, that greek was chosen solely because of the word λόγος and its philosophical conceptions surrounding it that greeks had been developing. The question of 'Truth' with a capital T was the ultimate question at the time.

You should look into the comparisons made between the Masoretic Texts and the Dead Sea Scrolls. They are remarkably similar. Scribes dedicated their lives to making near-perfect copies of the original texts so as to preserve them for generations.

As for why Greek...why do you write in English? 🙂

At the time of Jesus, Greek was the common language, and Aramaic common among Semitic peoples. It was St. John the Evangelist who made the connection between Jesus and the λόγος. From there, Greek philosophical terms helped to conceptualize this reality.

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/trolltoll remove @43771 mouth shut.

Agreed. Scripture was inspired by God, and it points to and testify of Christ.
But it is not deity. Start with Scripture, but don’t stop with Scripture. Follow it to the One it testifies of.
The Logos. The Word of God which gives eternal life.