when it comes to the Word of God it's not really our place to put what we believe the author meant,
Then why does your church have sermons in its service? Are they not expositions of what the speaker believes the author meant? If not, then one should just read scripture and nothing more.
If you believe what you actually said to be true, then you would never read any commentary on scripture ever again, and ought to discourage others from practicing this sin.
My issue with you at times is that you don't quote the entirety of what is said. How about I try this and then you tell me you don't have a problem with what I got from it....
My issue with you at times is that you don't quote the entirety of what is said.
It wouldn't have changed my reply. So here is the entirety of your quote:
Never said it didn't but when it comes to the Word of God it's not really our place to put what we believe the author meant, when the best we know of the author is all second hand to begin with. I do believe that is the very issue you have with many translations/translators.
Then why does your church have sermons in its service? Are they not expositions of what the speaker believes the author meant? If not, then one should just read scripture and nothing more.If you believe what you actually said to be true, then you would never read any commentary on scripture ever again, and ought to discourage others from practicing this sin.
Now had you said, "It's not really our place to translate what we believe the author meant," than THAT means something different, and my reply would have been different.
So here you wind up hurling blame at me because YOU have difficulty writing what you mean.
Good! Now notice who I am talking to: "You/Me" not all/most of Christendom, and beyond. I stated this, because as I ended that portion to you "I do believe that is the very issue you have with many translations/translators. Was I wrong in that last statement?
Your inability to see your own insulting ways, has always been my point.
If you're having trouble writing what you mean (as I've just shown above) why do you think you don't have trouble reading what I write?
You constantly impute malintent to my posts when none exists. But of course if I ask you to read my posts more closely and more accurately, you'll just see another insult that doesn't exist.
Because you have shown almost without exception that each person you communicate with here on Talk Jesus winds up ending with a negative response from you. Malintent, would require one to know your intention. I know not why, just that it is, and I take it as negative because the comments that I refer to do nothing to further the topic that you or the other are involved with!
I know in the debating format of old and new, that insulting or diminishing the opponent was an acceptable method to use. Some will say but I'm just doing what Jesus did, which I accept. However, 1st you are not Jesus, though another here would say you are

and until you can see into the very being of the person you are communicating with like Jesus could, the debater is wrong to use such methods. Why? because that which diminishes the other, even if not meant to do so, for the sole purpose of attempting to win a debate/score a pt. is at its core a proposition that has more in common with the adversary than our God. Which I believe I stated before that winning a debate or scoring a point is not evidence of the truth of one's position.
Marshal renders the above verse as
Then says to them - Jesus: All ye will be offended in me - - tonight; it has been written for: I will strike the shepherd, and will be scattered the sheep of the flock.
The difference in the one I mentioned that I use is that it ends with a semi-colon and not a period like yours does.
Gosh, sometimes I can't help but tickle the dog's paw, just to see them kick. You ever do that?
No. I don't torture animals. I'm not that sick.
Now I know why you don't have a sense of humor.
Never tickled by a loved one...some of the most loving moments I can recall is when my saintly mother would tickle me, and we'd laugh, and almost both cry from the joy of the moment. Then again, I guess with you it's about intent, don't you know...
With the Love of Christ Jesus.
YBIC
Nick
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