I can't speak to the rest, but all the translations I own are directly translated from the Hebrew and Greek texts we have. In rare cases, Greek translations of the Hebrew texts have been required but several modern archaeological discoveries have made that less necessary. My NIV+NASB+Greek interlinear is a personal favourite. It allows reading in English both in a modern and easy to read format (NIV) and a more literal translation (NASB) while including the original text as well for those of us who wish to cf. their ancient Greek lessons.
Region makes a huge difference too -- its often cited for instance that English has more words for 'snow' than many others because its a northern language, and yet Inuit languages have even more.
People have believed in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for many thousands of years. There have been many opportunities to disrupt such faith and yet it has stood, both in Judaism and Christianity and more recently in Islam. You feel free to compare it to a belief in Zeus, but you'll find that dismissing such an old and well tested faith out of hand is more ignorance than wisdom.
Last I checked, most of the certainties claimed by the Bible (which is the subject of the story, not Christianity) are simply historical and quite frequently supported by outside sources, be it archaeology or secondary writings from other kingdoms.
PS have you actually read it, or are you just claiming things you don't know anything about?
To claim you know better puts you on philosophically shaky ground.
There are very few truly wise people who would claim another's beliefs are wrong. Such things are best left to the domain of the young and ignorant who know everything and nothing.
You converted from a well-thought out faith espoused by such great thinkers as Calvin himself to one that claims their leader is infallible and invents new rules every few decades? Last I checked, Catholics also deny Jesus had brothers and sisters and believe in iconography despite the rules against graven images in the Old Testament.
The word Christian was purportedly a slur by the Romans which was adopted by those of whom it was true. Get over yourself.
X is short for Christ, there's no reason to care about 'xmas' being spelt wrong, especially since we have no clue when Jesus was born (and it almost certainly wasn't in the winter).
Since you seem so brilliant (that's sarcasm), how about you disprove the really easy one -- the biblical account of a global flood. After all, it would leave substantial evidence to be found, and evidence to the contrary should prove the text wrong, shouldn't it?
No but to be the devil's advocate for a moment, it would be nice if people would stop being idiots and claim they *know* things not to be true they can't disprove.
Just admit to what it is -- belief. One side believes one thing, the other does not. Very few of these debatable points come down to anything more than belief, despite the mud slinging attempts of the anti-faith community to claim otherwise.
I run a Linux desktop with multiple logins and just create a new one for guests to use on the fly. That account is then deleted and the data scrubbed when they're done. Sometimes that's a student living with us for a few months, sometimes a one day photo viewing session.
As for Windows, creating a restore point and creating a fresh non-privileged account for them to use then deleting the user and/or running system restore back to that save point should suffice in most cases.
Its often very handy to have a list of commands or features or api references that's easy to search. Meaning Google is a bit too large a tool, but something like a BASH quick-reference is very handy. I can't imagine this not being a digital reference though; paper seems so redundant.
No seriously, give me the survey and study that was done scientifically that proves your point or else you're at best making it up and at worst lying to influence others.
My smart phone is on GPS mode and runs Torque in the background while I'm driving. I also respond to texts by voice and have Google Talk voice convos hands-free. I suppose I shouldn't be allowed to do any of these things because I'm a supposed anomaly?
Only if 36 million is a small fraction of the normal number of people who protest an issue. The issue isn't that of percentages of population but percentages of those who would protest at all.
Counting the percentage of people who come out to vote isn't nearly as relevant as the percentage of people who would've voted under other circumstances. People who wouldn't protest or vote shouldn't be counted against those who do.
Hanging someone and then pardoning him to be sure there's no chance for him to air his side of the story isn't justice, and is done for a reason.
Saddam was a good buddy with the USA for years, and his deals with the US government would've turned heads. Better to have him in the ground where he won't talk.
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So many thanks for beating me to that one ... well stated.
I can't speak to the rest, but all the translations I own are directly translated from the Hebrew and Greek texts we have. In rare cases, Greek translations of the Hebrew texts have been required but several modern archaeological discoveries have made that less necessary. My NIV+NASB+Greek interlinear is a personal favourite. It allows reading in English both in a modern and easy to read format (NIV) and a more literal translation (NASB) while including the original text as well for those of us who wish to cf. their ancient Greek lessons.
Feel free to argue otherwise but Atheism is a lack of belief in God, it has nothing to do with religion.
In fact, I would argue that many atheists are very religious about their atheism.
Region makes a huge difference too -- its often cited for instance that English has more words for 'snow' than many others because its a northern language, and yet Inuit languages have even more.
People have believed in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for many thousands of years. There have been many opportunities to disrupt such faith and yet it has stood, both in Judaism and Christianity and more recently in Islam. You feel free to compare it to a belief in Zeus, but you'll find that dismissing such an old and well tested faith out of hand is more ignorance than wisdom.
Last I checked, most of the certainties claimed by the Bible (which is the subject of the story, not Christianity) are simply historical and quite frequently supported by outside sources, be it archaeology or secondary writings from other kingdoms.
PS have you actually read it, or are you just claiming things you don't know anything about?
So much LOL ... love it.
To claim you know better puts you on philosophically shaky ground.
There are very few truly wise people who would claim another's beliefs are wrong. Such things are best left to the domain of the young and ignorant who know everything and nothing.
"Sell everything you have and give it to the poor" ... yup, definitely socially conservative.
"True religion is taking care of widows and orphans."
Yawn, blind people claiming others are blind is funny.
You converted from a well-thought out faith espoused by such great thinkers as Calvin himself to one that claims their leader is infallible and invents new rules every few decades? Last I checked, Catholics also deny Jesus had brothers and sisters and believe in iconography despite the rules against graven images in the Old Testament.
The word Christian was purportedly a slur by the Romans which was adopted by those of whom it was true. Get over yourself.
X is short for Christ, there's no reason to care about 'xmas' being spelt wrong, especially since we have no clue when Jesus was born (and it almost certainly wasn't in the winter).
And why should I bother proving to you that the unicorn you perceive does not exist?
Since you seem so brilliant (that's sarcasm), how about you disprove the really easy one -- the biblical account of a global flood. After all, it would leave substantial evidence to be found, and evidence to the contrary should prove the text wrong, shouldn't it?
No but to be the devil's advocate for a moment, it would be nice if people would stop being idiots and claim they *know* things not to be true they can't disprove.
Just admit to what it is -- belief. One side believes one thing, the other does not. Very few of these debatable points come down to anything more than belief, despite the mud slinging attempts of the anti-faith community to claim otherwise.
You have no reading comprehension.
The initial sentences in the book of Genesis read like an overview, much like a modern paper has a quick summary at the beginning.
When you realize this from basic textual analysis, the account makes perfect sense and there's no conflict as mis-stated in your post.
Might want to pick something concrete and provable instead.
I run a Linux desktop with multiple logins and just create a new one for guests to use on the fly. That account is then deleted and the data scrubbed when they're done. Sometimes that's a student living with us for a few months, sometimes a one day photo viewing session.
As for Windows, creating a restore point and creating a fresh non-privileged account for them to use then deleting the user and/or running system restore back to that save point should suffice in most cases.
You mean from advertisers who target geeks who find rot13 obvious and get that it was Apr1?
I'm betting they just solidified their demographics a bit.
Its often very handy to have a list of commands or features or api references that's easy to search. Meaning Google is a bit too large a tool, but something like a BASH quick-reference is very handy. I can't imagine this not being a digital reference though; paper seems so redundant.
Anyone who's used BASH for any amount of scripting knows how useless PowerShell is as soon as they play with it.
Stats please.
Show me the accident rate per distance driven by age breakdown and then eliminate drugs, alcohol and other non-age-related factors.
If they're not weaving and braking late and following too close and changing lanes without signalling, who gives a damn?
Stop assuming people are distracted to a degree that matters just because they're adjusting the volume while driving.
What certainty do you have other than your own suspicions exactly?
You did a study? You read a study?
Stop propagating FUD because you have an assumption and start using data.
Statistics please.
No seriously, give me the survey and study that was done scientifically that proves your point or else you're at best making it up and at worst lying to influence others.
My smart phone is on GPS mode and runs Torque in the background while I'm driving. I also respond to texts by voice and have Google Talk voice convos hands-free. I suppose I shouldn't be allowed to do any of these things because I'm a supposed anomaly?
Only if 36 million is a small fraction of the normal number of people who protest an issue. The issue isn't that of percentages of population but percentages of those who would protest at all.
Counting the percentage of people who come out to vote isn't nearly as relevant as the percentage of people who would've voted under other circumstances. People who wouldn't protest or vote shouldn't be counted against those who do.
Hanging someone and then pardoning him to be sure there's no chance for him to air his side of the story isn't justice, and is done for a reason.
Saddam was a good buddy with the USA for years, and his deals with the US government would've turned heads. Better to have him in the ground where he won't talk.