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Re: OT Re: Life style(s), personal beliefs, faith, opinions, and all that JAZZ
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| Richard 2005-01-25, 3:55 am |
| > This is an effect, not the reason.
Well there yer go, Jerrymouse can pontificate and tell us the _real_
reason.
Whether it be an intent or merely an effect, most churches, want
breeding to increase the numbers as this gives more power, more
control, as they outbreed others. This is regardless of whether it is
to outvote or outfight or just for some fictional 'greater glory'. This
is inappropriate in most parts of the world.
> there was no "Jehovah."
Whatever.
"""In 1611 what became the most widely used English translation, the
Authorized Version, was published. In this, the name [Jehovah] appeared
four times in the main text. (Exodus 6:3; Psalm 83:18; Isaiah 12:2;
26:4) "Jah," a poetic abbreviation of the name, appeared in Psalm 68:4.
And the name appeared in full in place-names such as "Jehovah-jireh."
(Genesis 22:14; Exodus 17:15; Judges 6:24) However, following the
example of Tyndale, the translators in most instances substituted
"LORD" or "GOD" for God's name. But if God's name could appear in four
verses, why could it not appear in all the other thousands of verses
that contain it in the original Hebrew?"""
"""When J. M. Powis Smith and Edgar J. Goodspeed produced a modern
translation of the Bible in 1935, readers found that LORD and GOD had
been used in most places as a substitution for God's name. The reason
was explained in a preface: "In this translation we have followed the
orthodox Jewish tradition and substituted 'the Lord' for the name
'Yahweh' and the phrase 'the Lord God' for the phrase 'the Lord
Yahweh.' In all cases where 'Lord' or 'God' represents an original
'Yahweh' small capitals are employed."
Then, in an unusual reversal of the tradition of the Jews who read YHWH
but pronounced it "Lord," the preface says: "Anyone, therefore, who
desires to retain the flavor of the original text has but to read
'Yahweh' wherever he sees LORD or GOD"! """
> I would be interested in facts, bolstered by evidence sufficiently
strong in
> itself to comple a rational mind as to the probable truth of the
assertion.
> Random "views" based on ignorance are irrelevant.
That would be pretty strange requirement if it came from a religionist.
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