Not really.. "Alma" can refer to either a virgin or a young woman.. The passage in Isaiah was relevant to the contemporaries in that a young woman did give birth and fulfilled that specific prophecy, but also as a foreshadowing of the Messiah.. Just as Gen 3:15 refers to enmity between "the woman's seed" and the serpent..
Latin used to be the "common tongue" as English has tended to be nowadays. When you've got a few dozen countries in an area the size of New England that all speak different languages you need a common tongue.:)
The bible translation that St. Jerome did into Latin is known as the "Biblia Vulgata" (or Vulgate) - but what many seem to forget is the vulgata part. That means in the "vulgar" or common tongue.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the first commercial I remember seeing on a home video was the Pepsi commercial at the beginning of "Top Gun" on VHS. Prior to the release of "Top Gun" I remember VHS movies costing about $40-$50 each. When "Top Gun" was released it was only $20 (presumably because Pepsi had subsidized a good part of that with their ad at the beginning).
So it seems that the public did speak - they were willing to have commercials on movies they bought in order to have lower-cost movies.
Of course, I was pretty young back then so someone correct me if I don't remember accurately.:)
Reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me of drunken ROTC people rappelling down the sides of the dorms during the wee hours at UD (or mighta been Wright State, forget by now).
It's probably the same. I have a Nintendo DS. The first one I got had 1 dead pixel on the top screen. I exchanged it and got one that had 3 dead pixels on the bottom screen.
Right now it doesn't bother me too much, but I may exchange it in the future if the bottom screen gets used for more than mostly just moving in games.
This is one of my main gripes with "fundamentalist" this and "fundamentalist" that.
Fundamentalism dates from a series of tracts circulated around 100 years ago entitled "The Fundamentals of the Christian Religion" or something of that nature. Those that adhered to the tracts became known as Fundamentalists.
It kills me when people talk about "Islamic fundamentalists". What a contradiction.
You get a lease for a car that restricts you to driving it only in your hometown. The dealer puts a GPS device on it that makes it quit running if you go outside of the approved area. This is like hacking the car to remove the GPS device.
Actually, he would have had to have been around 80 to 90 years old. It is assumed that he was a young man when Christ was crucified (33 AD) and in 95 AD he would have been in his 80s. We know that he was definitely alive around 80 AD, as St. Polycarp was his student and he headed the Church in Ephesus. This fits well, as it is accepted that the Gospel of St. John was written late in his life.
The dating of the Apocalypse, however, is open to dispute. I follow an earlier dating which posits its authorship before the destruction of the temple and subsequent diaspora (70 AD).
However, even given these, it is not disputed that St. John lived a long life (as is supported by his successors) and wrote the gospel attributed to him. I did not propose that this was the earliest writing, I merely refuted the suggestion that no books of the New Testament were composed by those who were apostles or in close proximity to them.
And, incidentally, I have read up on the Council of Nicea as well as many other councils. I also admit that the majority of the Church at that time had fallen into Arian heresy. However, orthodoxy prevailed. Orthodoxy is not a basilisk to be avoided, it is a correctness to be welcomed. (I also know about the subsequent support of Arianism by emperors and the ensuing political battles that followed).
4) There is a version control system. It's called the Church. Jesus didn't say "Go forth and write all this down so that people will reinterpret it contrary ways for the next 2000 years", He said "Go forth and teach all nations, baptizing in My name" and "whoever receives you receives me, whoever denies you denies me". The Church is not founded on the Bible, the Bible is a book of the Church. You still also have the codices (which date from the 4th century) and the fragmentary original autographs still extant (not to mention the Vulgate, translated by St. Jerome, which gives a good indication of then contemporary Latin interpretation of the Greek). You'd be surprised how few errors (again, mostly copyist) there are in extant manuscripts. Study up on textual criticism sometime.
1) The gospels are written by those in close proximity to or apostles. The Gospel of John is clearly written by John (the beloved apostle).
2) No, it has not. Translations are done from the Greek autographs (as far as we have) and codices (such as the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrus). There are VERY few errors (mostly minor copyist errors) between extant autographs and the codices.
And incidentally, the word you are looking for is the Hebrew word "alma", which typically refers to a young woman (not necessarily one without child) but can also refer to a virgin.
3) Not really. The King James was translated from the Textus Receptus, which was assembled by the humanistic philosopher Erasmus shortly before the time of Martin Luther. It varies in minor places from the Codex Vaticanus (which I believe is a more correct assemblage), but was pieced and not extant from the 4th century. The original 1611 version of the King James bible included the deuterocanonical books (those which most modern-day protestants classify as apocryphal).
4) There is a version control system. It's called the Church. Jesus didn't say "Go forth and write all this downthe codices (which date from the 4th century) and the fragmentary original autographs still extant (not to mention the Vulgate, translated by St. Jerome, which gives a good indication of then contemporary Latin interpretation of the. You'd be surprised how few errors (again, mostly copyist) there are in extant manuscripts. Study up on textual criticism sometime.
Sounds like the DSL market here in Cincinnati. The ONLY DSL provider available is Cincinnati Bell. Sure, you can use another (mostly local) ISP on your Cincinnati Bell-provided Zoomtown line (at a much higher price than Fuse, Cincinnati Bell's ISP) - but big names such as SBC, Earthlink and Speakeasy are out of the question.
I would love to be able to have a $19.99 DSL line from Earthlink or SBC Yahoo instead of the $44.95+ DSL line that Cincinnati Bell provides. I don't see that on the horizon, though.
I too came from a Commodore background, but my uncle had a Tandy. He used to set me in front of it to mess around when we had holidays at their house. Usually that involved running some shareware program like Maze Runner (gotta love those old, weird Tandy joysticks), but I decided to start exploring the system after a few.
I had to figure out the DIR command (after forgetting what it was and trying CAT and CATALOG and other things that seemed likely), and then just ran all the other commands to see what they did if I couldn't figure out a likely candidate from the command name.
Not recommended on today's systems. You'd probably end up firing up a Trojan installed.;)
"To Go", for the non-English speakers, means prepared to be taken somewhere else. When you order food "to go" at a restauraunt, it's in boxes and ready to be taken home instead of eaten on the premises.
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Not really.. "Alma" can refer to either a virgin or a young woman.. The passage in Isaiah was relevant to the contemporaries in that a young woman did give birth and fulfilled that specific prophecy, but also as a foreshadowing of the Messiah.. Just as Gen 3:15 refers to enmity between "the woman's seed" and the serpent..
I think Orwell touched on this in "1984". Remember the Two Minutes Hate?
Umm, not quite.
:)
Latin used to be the "common tongue" as English has tended to be nowadays. When you've got a few dozen countries in an area the size of New England that all speak different languages you need a common tongue.
The bible translation that St. Jerome did into Latin is known as the "Biblia Vulgata" (or Vulgate) - but what many seem to forget is the vulgata part. That means in the "vulgar" or common tongue.
I posted a comment on this earlier, but thought I'd bring the relevant part here.
The first VHS movie I remember with a commercial was "Top Gun", and IIRC it sold for 1/2 to 1/3 as much as others without commercials.
I think they did.
:)
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the first commercial I remember seeing on a home video was the Pepsi commercial at the beginning of "Top Gun" on VHS. Prior to the release of "Top Gun" I remember VHS movies costing about $40-$50 each. When "Top Gun" was released it was only $20 (presumably because Pepsi had subsidized a good part of that with their ad at the beginning).
So it seems that the public did speak - they were willing to have commercials on movies they bought in order to have lower-cost movies.
Of course, I was pretty young back then so someone correct me if I don't remember accurately.
Digz
It's nice. I lived in Ft. Mitchell before for a couple years, but ended up moving back across the river.
Insurance rates suck though. My car insurance doubled.
But it's nice to be 10 minutes from downtown Cincy and still have a good neighborhood.
Reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me of drunken ROTC people rappelling down the sides of the dorms during the wee hours at UD (or mighta been Wright State, forget by now).
I just did.
It's probably the same. I have a Nintendo DS. The first one I got had 1 dead pixel on the top screen. I exchanged it and got one that had 3 dead pixels on the bottom screen.
Right now it doesn't bother me too much, but I may exchange it in the future if the bottom screen gets used for more than mostly just moving in games.
This is one of my main gripes with "fundamentalist" this and "fundamentalist" that.
Fundamentalism dates from a series of tracts circulated around 100 years ago entitled "The Fundamentals of the Christian Religion" or something of that nature. Those that adhered to the tracts became known as Fundamentalists.
It kills me when people talk about "Islamic fundamentalists". What a contradiction.
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Bad analogy. A better one:
You get a lease for a car that restricts you to driving it only in your hometown. The dealer puts a GPS device on it that makes it quit running if you go outside of the approved area. This is like hacking the car to remove the GPS device.
Actually, he would have had to have been around 80 to 90 years old. It is assumed that he was a young man when Christ was crucified (33 AD) and in 95 AD he would have been in his 80s. We know that he was definitely alive around 80 AD, as St. Polycarp was his student and he headed the Church in Ephesus. This fits well, as it is accepted that the Gospel of St. John was written late in his life.
The dating of the Apocalypse, however, is open to dispute. I follow an earlier dating which posits its authorship before the destruction of the temple and subsequent diaspora (70 AD).
However, even given these, it is not disputed that St. John lived a long life (as is supported by his successors) and wrote the gospel attributed to him. I did not propose that this was the earliest writing, I merely refuted the suggestion that no books of the New Testament were composed by those who were apostles or in close proximity to them.
And, incidentally, I have read up on the Council of Nicea as well as many other councils. I also admit that the majority of the Church at that time had fallen into Arian heresy. However, orthodoxy prevailed. Orthodoxy is not a basilisk to be avoided, it is a correctness to be welcomed. (I also know about the subsequent support of Arianism by emperors and the ensuing political battles that followed).
Ugh.. Edited point 4
4) There is a version control system. It's called the Church. Jesus didn't say "Go forth and write all this down so that people will reinterpret it contrary ways for the next 2000 years", He said "Go forth and teach all nations, baptizing in My name" and "whoever receives you receives me, whoever denies you denies me". The Church is not founded on the Bible, the Bible is a book of the Church. You still also have the codices (which date from the 4th century) and the fragmentary original autographs still extant (not to mention the Vulgate, translated by St. Jerome, which gives a good indication of then contemporary Latin interpretation of the Greek). You'd be surprised how few errors (again, mostly copyist) there are in extant manuscripts. Study up on textual criticism sometime.
Where to begin..
1) The gospels are written by those in close proximity to or apostles. The Gospel of John is clearly written by John (the beloved apostle).
2) No, it has not. Translations are done from the Greek autographs (as far as we have) and codices (such as the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrus). There are VERY few errors (mostly minor copyist errors) between extant autographs and the codices.
And incidentally, the word you are looking for is the Hebrew word "alma", which typically refers to a young woman (not necessarily one without child) but can also refer to a virgin.
3) Not really. The King James was translated from the Textus Receptus, which was assembled by the humanistic philosopher Erasmus shortly before the time of Martin Luther. It varies in minor places from the Codex Vaticanus (which I believe is a more correct assemblage), but was pieced and not extant from the 4th century. The original 1611 version of the King James bible included the deuterocanonical books (those which most modern-day protestants classify as apocryphal).
4) There is a version control system. It's called the Church. Jesus didn't say "Go forth and write all this downthe codices (which date from the 4th century) and the fragmentary original autographs still extant (not to mention the Vulgate, translated by St. Jerome, which gives a good indication of then contemporary Latin interpretation of the. You'd be surprised how few errors (again, mostly copyist) there are in extant manuscripts. Study up on textual criticism sometime.
You would be better served by presenting a factual analysis of the Galileo situation instead of spouting myth.. pdf
http://www.gospelcom.net/ivpress/title/exc/2281-1
Actually, it's Latin. ;)
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
Meet Jack Chick
Just in case you wanted to know what he looked like.
Hey, I love that book.. :)
Of course, that's only since I re-read it a few months ago (10 years after it was assigned in AP English). I hated it back then.
Sounds like the DSL market here in Cincinnati. The ONLY DSL provider available is Cincinnati Bell. Sure, you can use another (mostly local) ISP on your Cincinnati Bell-provided Zoomtown line (at a much higher price than Fuse, Cincinnati Bell's ISP) - but big names such as SBC, Earthlink and Speakeasy are out of the question.
I would love to be able to have a $19.99 DSL line from Earthlink or SBC Yahoo instead of the $44.95+ DSL line that Cincinnati Bell provides. I don't see that on the horizon, though.
Dude, when did Apple buy them out? ;)
One million..
;)
er..
one HUNDRED BILLION dollars!
Weenie.. :)
;)
I too came from a Commodore background, but my uncle had a Tandy. He used to set me in front of it to mess around when we had holidays at their house. Usually that involved running some shareware program like Maze Runner (gotta love those old, weird Tandy joysticks), but I decided to start exploring the system after a few.
I had to figure out the DIR command (after forgetting what it was and trying CAT and CATALOG and other things that seemed likely), and then just ran all the other commands to see what they did if I couldn't figure out a likely candidate from the command name.
Not recommended on today's systems. You'd probably end up firing up a Trojan installed.
"To Go", for the non-English speakers, means prepared to be taken somewhere else. When you order food "to go" at a restauraunt, it's in boxes and ready to be taken home instead of eaten on the premises.