[Magdalen] Interesting review, new New Testament translation

[Grace Cangialosi]

Probably not a cool comment, but it sounds as if some of these folks would fit right in with our current government.

> On Dec 11, 2017, at 12:48 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, not "sat down," but essentially the Book is the result of automatic
> writing. And it's not "someone," but "SomeOne." No humans wrote the Book;
> God just took over their bodily processes and used them to write it all
> down. Contradictions? Yep, God put those in there to mislead the "smart"
> people so they'd all go to hell as punishment for being so darn smart.
> 
> There's even a King James Only group. They say that God magically took over
> all the guys who were working for King James, and produced the God-ordained
> perfect English translation. These folks regard the Septuagint as a threat
> to their theory, so they have decided that the Septuagint never existed.
> It's all made up. The different forms of quotes of Old Testament passages
> one finds in the New Testament doesn't really mean anything, because the
> Holy Spirit wrote all that, and the Holy Spirit can quote itself any way it
> wants to. It doesn't have to quote itself perfectly.
> 
> It gets to the point where I really wonder if these folks might do better
> with some psychotropic medication, but there's probably a much simpler
> explanation. There's money to be made in writing this junk for the folks
> who want to keep on believing it, and once you figure out that folks will
> really pay big bucks for this, no fool cuts off that kind of cash flow.
> It's the same as these folks who make money writing lies about Masonry and
> Roman Catholicism and Judaism.
> 
> 
> 
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> 
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Interesting, because I’ve never heard the suggestion that NT is anything
>> other than a collection—like the Hebrew Bible. What’s the alternative
>> view—that someone sat down and wrote it all out?
>> 
>>> On Dec 10, 2017, at 6:52 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I saw this and can't wait to get my hands on the book. Father Kyrill and
>> I
>>> have had wild discussions in our Thursday night classes on the Gospels,
>>> many of them tending toward this view(!) as he is something of a Greek
>>> scholar and tends toward the opinion that the NT is a collection, not a
>>> "book entire". My linguistics background, even without Greek, holds me up
>>> in the discussions <g> They are fun!
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 6:26 PM, cady soukup <cadyasoukup at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Fun, interesting, and snarky?
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/the-
>>>> new-testament-a-translation-david-bentley-hart/546551/
>>>> 
>>>> Cady
>>>> 
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