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Originally posted by jmdewey60
So, nothing to do with the topic or anything, right, just you don't like what you imagine my attitude to be.
Originally posted by XplanetX
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by XplanetX
Of what, exactly?
Repent.
Arrogance and Pride.
Can you give an example of where I am demonstrating arrogance?
So nothing specific, but you just get a feeling and you believe there is an arrogant tone, is that what you are saying I need to repent of? Maybe what I am doing now seems arrogant, that I would dare to question someone who quotes scripture. I think you need to check you own self for pride.
You are trying to defend a false teaching contrived by your own philosophy. It does not matter what language someone uses to worship God. Whether it be ancient Greek, ancient Hebrew or English. Or a language that has not even been developed yet. The translation is important so that the meaning is not lost, but the language itself is of little importance and has no consequence on salvation.
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by XplanetX
So nothing specific, but you just get a feeling and you believe there is an arrogant tone, is that what you are saying I need to repent of? Maybe what I am doing now seems arrogant, that I would dare to question someone who quotes scripture. I think you need to check you own self for pride.
You are trying to defend a false teaching contrived by your own philosophy. It does not matter what language someone uses to worship God. Whether it be ancient Greek, ancient Hebrew or English. Or a language that has not even been developed yet. The translation is important so that the meaning is not lost, but the language itself is of little importance and has no consequence on salvation.
If it does not matter what language is used, why would you defend people who go around telling others they have to use a dead language?
Why then, all of a sudden you just switched to now there is an important meaning that has to come through?
Why is that important? What is this meaning?
Why can't it just be someone's name and not mean anything other than that it indicates a specific person?
Theses are the questions I am asking. Would you like to answer any of them?
Explain to me what "false teaching" I am presenting.
Here is the definition of a dead language, from dictionary.com:
I pause and look at my sinful self in the mirror everyday and ask for forgiveness from God. Jesus gives us the template for the things that we should be praying about lest we become arrogant and divert ourselves away from God and his truth.
MT 6:9 "This, then, is how you should pray:
" `Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
MT 6:10 your kingdom come,
your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
MT 6:11 Give us today our daily bread.
MT 6:12 Forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
MT 6:13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one. '
If ancient Hebrew were a 'dead' language then we would not be able to translate it today.
have already told you how you are promoting a false teaching by showing you relevant scriptures.
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by XplanetX
Here is the definition of a dead language, from dictionary.com:
I pause and look at my sinful self in the mirror everyday and ask for forgiveness from God. Jesus gives us the template for the things that we should be praying about lest we become arrogant and divert ourselves away from God and his truth.
MT 6:9 "This, then, is how you should pray:
" `Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
MT 6:10 your kingdom come,
your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
MT 6:11 Give us today our daily bread.
MT 6:12 Forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
MT 6:13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one. '
If ancient Hebrew were a 'dead' language then we would not be able to translate it today.
have already told you how you are promoting a false teaching by showing you relevant scriptures.
noun
a language that is no longer learned as a native language
So it does not mean a language that is undecipherable though it is close to it since a lot of what is in the old Hebrew is only fund in the Old Testament, meaning there is no body of literature in biblical Hebrew outside of the Bible itself.
Just quoting scripture is not pointing out how I am wrong. You need to actually point out where what I am saying is counter to what the Bible is saying.
In the first part of your post, are you saying that because you think about the possibility of your having pride, then that frees you of having pride, to where you can go forth doing whatever you feel like doing without having any fear that you are exercising pride, having already extinguished pride from your heat earlier that day?
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by NewAgeMan
. . .it's too bad you feel that way
. . .You sir have made a grave error
. . .what you are doing is very painful
. . .all in the need to be RIGHT
. . .making others WRONG
. . .not a good path to go down
. . .what you're doing is wrong
. . .a grave sin.
If I am wrong, you need to check yourself.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by NewAgeMan
. . .it's too bad you feel that way
. . .You sir have made a grave error
. . .what you are doing is very painful
. . .all in the need to be RIGHT
. . .making others WRONG
. . .not a good path to go down
. . .what you're doing is wrong
. . .a grave sin.
If I am wrong, you need to check yourself.
You are attacking the body of Christ, like a cancerous tumor, suggesting that different parts of the body (outside of yourself that is) be cast into HELL!
I'm not concerned for the spiritual body of Christ, but for you, a self-professed Christian brother. What I'm saying is that your absolute need to be right, and to keep going down this path, is the problem. I am trying to help you, by suggesting that you let this thread just die on the vine.
Will pray for you, but I'm not sure that's going to help.. and that's the scary part.
Your point is not getting across, and I am not guessing, so if you have a point, then spell it out.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by jmdewey60
Are you aware of the NDE's of Christians predominantly concerned with others who are going to hell, yep you guessed it.. it's not a pretty picture.
Now you seem to be trying to provoke me.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
Where is the hell or the satan - in Christ?
Edit: Where is the love of Christ in the threat of hell?
Think this all the way through friend, and then check yourself. But it's too late for that isn't it, since you can't back away from your stupid thread title! How pathetic!
Here you seem to be implying that I am damning you to hell.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by jmdewey60
Oh, and how it's me, because I don't expect it..?!
Oh dear God..
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by WarminIndy
And I keep explaining that there are no Hebrew speaking people who want to read the New Testament.
. . .the rest of us understand there are different languages and we are ok with people speaking the name Jesus.
People I am talking about leave the English as-is, and just change the words like, Jesus.
My understanding is that Christians in Palestine read the Greek New Testament. The Jews in Israel would be the people who use Hebrew as their official language.
And I think you do not realize that there have been Christians in Israel since Christianity began, they never all left, and those people use the Hebrew NT because they speak Hebrew,
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by WarminIndy
Why don't you explain why someone would want to translate the name, Jesus, into Hebrew?
This was your argument, that such and such name is just the Hebrew version of Jesus.
I just don't see that as having any relevance to the main question, that you can translate the name Jesus, into Hebrew.
The relevance is that you said they were going to hell for doing so. And they do it because they want to. English as we know it by the way, is not even as old as you think it is. English as we know it is only about 500 years old. So Jesus as we say it....is only 500 years old. So because English is new, and since it is new, it is the last new language on this earth.
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by WarminIndy
My understanding is that Christians in Palestine read the Greek New Testament. The Jews in Israel would be the people who use Hebrew as their official language.
And I think you do not realize that there have been Christians in Israel since Christianity began, they never all left, and those people use the Hebrew NT because they speak Hebrew,
My main point is that you hinge your entire argument on a hypothetical that somewhere, someone will need to translate Jesus into Hebrew. Then you build on that one circumstance to say that if one person could do that, then everybody can do it.