[Magdalen] Interesting review, new New Testament translation

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Voldemort and his minions would be entirely too moderate for these folks.

No, REALLY!

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 10:37 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> >>>>
> >>
>