When I see things like this, I'm certain we need another civil war. It's beyond time to eliminate these folks.
- By cgbills
- The Bear Pit
- 110 Replies
I am sorry but your statements about the Bible show a lack of understanding of Bibliology, Canonicity, and textual criticism. The OT was written in Hebrew and Aramaic, the New Testament in Greek. Any translation is based of the original Hebrew and Greek texts, which we have many thousands of copies of. I am assuming you from a tradition that held strictly to the KJV, so that maybe part of your misunderstanding of Bible translations. Further, when you say entire chapters are missing and things added intentionally in order to control the population, can you please sight what chapters and concepts to which you are referring? If you are attempting to reference the differences of the apocryphal text between Catholic and Protestant Bibles, I think you have a profound misunderstanding about that whole subject. So please elaborate and reference what you mean because broad, unspecific claims with such reaching implications need to be specifically referenced.There are chapters missing from the Bible, and there are things that were added to control the population. I don't believe God expects us to allow ourselves to be driven to extinction. You may disagree, and I'll respect your opinion, but while I am a Christian, I do not for one second believe that the bible is the infallible word of God, on it's 7th translation, version 6, translated by a king who's other great literary works included cataloging mythical demons and such.
Also the Nazis and Christian discussion (this is not directed to you Heouldgoalltheway): The entire question of how such evil was committed by seemingly common people has multiple levels to it, and my point is not to get into the anthropological, sociological, or physiological answers here. What I would like to address is the Church in German and its support for the Nazi party. The first issue is the Lutheran church in Germany was very much a church of the state. Just like Rome was, the Anglican Church was in England, and the Swiss reformed church under Huldrych Zwingli (go read some stories about that). The point is when the church is closely connected to the centers of power of the state, the state will leverage the institutional church to support their ends. This is what happened in Germany. So to say the Christians in Germany supported Nazism is kind of a misnomer, it was the institutional power of the church that backed the state. Buy not everyone supported this. Reading the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer helps illustrate all this.