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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] Okay, all you self-proclaimed "Christians", who don't even seem to know what you're getting yourselves into when you call yourselves that... Here are a few things I've noticed a lot of you seem to be unclear on... 1.) You're not the first, last, or only group to come up w/ the concept of a "god", so quit acting like it. Your main deity is named "Yahweh", so start calling it that. Calling it "god" is like if I started calling all of you "person". For those of you who think the bible should only be read in the original English... Every time it says "the LORD", it means the original said "YHWH" (we're tlaking about the Hebrew books here; the Greek ones were done when people had already taken the nonspecific approach), which is, of course, just the name "Yahweh". If it says "GOD", the original was "elohim", which means "gods". There are a couple exceptions to this, but it applies to the OT in general, for the most part. 2.) Speaking of names, "Christ" isn't one. Your religion's founder's parents were not Joseph Christ and Mary Christ. It's a title. It's from "[i]khristos[/i]", the Greek translation of the Hebrew "[i]mashiah[/i]". "Christ" is no more a name than "Messiah" is. And, while we're at it... 3.) If you travelled back in time to, say, AD 32, and started asking around for a guy named "jeez-uss", you'd get some pretty funky looks. "Jesus" used to be "Iesus" in Latin (roughly pronounced "yeh-soos"). That was "Iesous" in Greek (about the same pronunciation). The Hebrew was "Yeshua'" (I don't know much about Hebrew pronunciation, but that sure as hell isn't "jeez-uss"). 'Course, this still isn't the guy's name. He didn't usually speak Hebrew. He spoke Aramaic. It's hard to find resources on Aramaic online, but I gather his name was pronounced something like "ee-sho". So, who this "jeez-uss" fellow is you all like, I don't know, but you might want to start worshipping "ee-sho", since he's the one that created your religion. I mean, c'm'on... If you guys don't even know the [i]names[/i] of the entities you say you believe in, do you really think you know enough to make an accurate judgement on the accuracy of those beliefs? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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