[Magdalen] Interesting review, new New Testament translation

[Lynn Ronkainen]

... reminds me of the evangelical side of why Mike Pence is 'just waiting' 
because he knows that God has directed him to this moment in time. Sigh.
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From: "Grace Cangialosi" <gracecan at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 9:37 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Interesting review, new New Testament translation

> 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
>>>>>
>>>