...and with such willing servants...
This verse of Scripture has meaning in every detail:
Matthew 13:33 (King James Version) Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Notice the detail of "three measures of meal." Specifically three. When you know the higher teaching you know what this refers to. The value of reading this detail before you are able to know the higher teaching is it puts the higher teaching in your mind via higher visual language which enables you to find it and come into understanding of it eventually. I.e. you have to have it in you before you can attract it towards you externally. "To he who has, more will be given." This is how you begin to have. By engaging and absorbing God's Word (and not filtering it through vanity, worldly pride, and self-will, by the way).
Yet look what these corrupt versions do with this verse:
Matthew 13:33 (New International Version) He told them still another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough."
Matthew 13:33 (Holman Christian Standard Bible) He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into 50 pounds of flour until it spread through all of it."
O, how the devil corrupts the Word of God (and with such willing servants)...
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I wonder where they came up with "50 pounds" from!
It's a case where they're reading the Greek term and then doing us a favor by adding up what three of them would weigh. It's more ridiculous considering that translation - the Holman Christian one - advertises itself as conservative and literal and all that.
S., my posts on the subject of the KJV versus the modern versions, as-well-as the manuscript issues, can be found in the archives of this blog, but the more you wipe all the modern spin from your eyes and look at the issues it is striking just how much has been accomplished by the forces of darkness (yes, the forces of darkness) in changing and deleting and generally hacking up the Old and New Testaments, especially the New.
I tell people the devil began his attack on the Word of God in the Garden, and he hasn't given up since then. And it's progressive.
When you know what is carried in the details of inspired writings - let alone Holy Writ - and you see these translators making decisions and saying "this detail is not important" you can then see how valuable a truly literal, humble translation like the AV1611/KJV is; and add to that the fact that is is the only one available based solely on the non-corrupt manuscripts and your valuation for it becomes infinite...
What I want to know is: where are the JPOD emails? I wonder if his emails are as inspiring as the filth that you spewed at him?
No, they're mainly not inspiring. I took them down because he asked me to take them down. Then after I took them down he wrote another email that was one too many (he apparently hadn't looked, at that point, to see if the post was still up or not), and I snapped. We've sorted it out, though. I apologised, he gave me medical advice. General good ending, considering the brutality of my language...
This is a good opportunity to point out that Christianity is not about having good language but about making contact. I was talking politics in this recent incident, but if the subject had been Christianity in the exchange with your friend JPod then JPod would have been edified, despite any brutal or filthy language. He might even be a Calvinist at this moment.
You might have seen him with a volume of Turretin or Jonathan Edwards the next time you saw him. You might have caught him saying things like: "Well, Geneva was actually a haven for Jews in Calvin's day." Not that he'd need to put anything in the context of having to do with Jews or anything like that at that point... Once regenerated, by the Word and the Spirit, he'd be an heir of the Living God. A prophet, a priest, and a king in the Kingdom of God. By the grace of God...
He'd also be busy converting all the RCs at NRO to Christianity... The Opus Dei Jesuit who got to Lowry would be writing up a report on JPod, but JPod wouldn't care, he being an heir of the Living God at that point... He'd convert the Opus Dei lost soul...
So you're actually justifying the invective you used in those emails? Wow, so by making "contact", you mean pearls of wisdom like "I'm on your a** now, b---h". Oh yeah, that'll convert him.
Not justifying it. Saying it's got nothing to do with Christianity and regeneration.
And lest I become too much of a monster let's remember I wasn't writing those things into a void. He admits to being 'vituperative'. I was demeaning from the get go though (I was doing a sort of satire, afterall, on some of the people who oppose the Meirs' nomination), but my language I used in the 'snap' didn't have to do with that. It had to do with being told to take something down, and the demand was accompanied with legal threats. I compromised - after initially refusing - (I used his initials instead of his name) but then I totally agreed with him that it should be taken down, so I took it down. Then I came back to my computer and found another email from him as demanding as the others (I gather he hadn't bothered to look to see if it was down at that point when he wrote the email), and that's when I snapped. You can see from the emails he posted that the context is "It was DOWN." The language that followed was just me being as dramatically brutal as you can get using the email genre. Trying to communicate intimidation without ever really intending to intimidate (I can't intimidate anyone. You have to be unconscious to intimidate people. Besides, I don't have intimidating anatomy. It's performance art. When you call a male 'witch' you're getting into performance art with words...)
JPod could be carrying a volume of 17th century theologian John Owen next time you see him (I mean, IF the exchange had been about the faith rather than some political issue). Personally I'm surprised more conservative law-oriented types (not that JPod necessarily falls into that category, I don't know if he has a law degree) don't connect more with classical Reformed theology and the scholastic reformed theologians. It has the added bonus, aside from being intellectually challenging and interesting, of being on-the-mark apostolic, biblical doctrine. The added bonus of being doctrine that is foundational to salvation. It's also vanity, worldly pride, and self-will challenging...
I've been using JPod's NBA nickname to keep from further abusing his privacy by posting his full name.
And to clarify about what I wrote regarding criticism of evangelicals...
I basically said the Jew/Catholic core of NRO considers evangelicals to be morons sort of in the same way the majority of socialist media in western Europe considers people who voted for Bush to be morons.
A Jew/Catholic NROist can hold that view while still defending evangelicals in some way or another...
Then I pointed out that one doesn't have alot of confidence the Jew/Catholic core of NRO has much ability regarding discerning a Pat Robertson from a John Calvin, or a Jimmy Swaggert from a Jonathan Edwards.
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