Posted By: Trance

Anyway, the point was that it wasn't in Aramaic.

How do you conclude that? Almost certainly the language of Jesus was Aramaic. He'd be preaching in Aramaic and Hebrew. In addition, as I said previously, the whole OT (by definition) predates Jesus as well as the Roman Empire. It also takes place apart from Greece. Those OT parts of the Bible would not have been written in Greek or Latin. (Latin became the official language of Christianity hundreds of years after Jesus.) There's good reason to believe at least parts were written in Aramaic.

Posted By: Trance

I should really start listening more in school.

We do have some common ground.

Posted By: Taed

We can all agree that the Old Testament is Hebrew.

Posted By: Fact totum

There's good reason to believe at least parts were written in Aramaic.

Posted By: Taed

We can all agree that the Old Testament is Hebrew. As I recall, the New Testament was apparently written no earlier than 130 AD and was written in Greek.

Well, most of the old testament. The apocryphal books were written in greek, but the first five books, the torah, were definitely in hebrew.

Also, when i say the first bible was written in Latin, i mean the first COMPILED bible. The different books were originally written in greek/latin/hebrew/other stuff.

You're bordering on crazy if you cite sources in this thread!

Isn't the mission of gullible.info to educate netizens the cautious use of information found on the Internet? Now you are trying to persuade people here with another piece of information you found on the net. You've committed the 8th sin. I vote ban FACT TOTUM.

We should have a courtroom thread, with all of us as the jury. Basically, whenever anyone was accused of malicious conduct or just plain bad behavior, we as a group could decide whether or not they were guilty. And each case, the defendant and prosecutor could choose a member to be their "lawyer"! That would be an awesome idea! To do that, we might need some sort of Instant Messaging module, though! What do you guys think?

That's a pretty good idea.

I vote in its favour, even though I can predict with a fair assumption I'll be in it a not-so-fair amount.

Maybe you should create it, Bubbles?

Better dig out your thinking cap then! :P

Nyarfdude, congratulations. You just posted the 666th post in the Religious thread, making you the...*is suffocated by one Smilk Ormin before she can complete sentence*
How did 6 become Satan's number anyway?

Posted By: nyarfdude

We should have a courtroom thread, with all of us as the jury. Basically, whenever anyone was accused of malicious conduct or just plain bad behavior, we as a group could decide whether or not they were guilty. And each case, the defendant and prosecutor could choose a member to be their "lawyer"! That would be an awesome idea! To do that, we might need some sort of Instant Messaging module, though! What do you guys think?

Seriously, please respond, Legatissimo! It would be so awesome to have a jury of Gullible Infoers!

In response to:

Posted By: Trance

And I think it's because the number 6 was mentioned as being evil/unlucky in the Bible, at least that what Gramma said.

In the original writing of Revelations, it was said that Satan's number (the number of evil) was 666.

• Due to a slight mistranslation, Revelation 13:18 is usually written as "the number of the beast ... is 666", instead of the correct "... is 6 by 6 by 6." Hence, the number of the beast is 216, not 666.

I'm pretty sure that parts of the Old Testament were written in any of the following: Greek, Aramaic, or Hebrew, but was compiled in Greek. The New Testament was written in Greek, Latin or Hebrew, but was compiled in Latin.

Two things:

I was too lazy to read the whole thing (call me arrogant if you want) but the first paragraph implied you've read the entire Bible, have you?

If you can't be troubled to read the post you're responding to, don't bother posting a reply. The point of a forum is to read and write, don't skirt your responsibility on one side of that equation.

Seriously, please respond, Legatissimo! It would be so awesome to have a jury of Gullible Infoers!

Juries and well and good for a democracy. But this is a benevolent dictatorship. I understand and respect your guys' input, and seriously consider what you think, but if this place has any chance of escaping into the moronic chaos that is the rest of the internet, it won't be by turning moderation decisions over to mob rule just quite yet. Maybe after the community has grown more, but not now. If you have concerns, email me (gullible@kylestoneman.com), or whisper a post to me and I'll do my best to resolve the matter. Now, back to religion...

Here's a good question: Are there religions that support homo/bisexuality?

It's more of a hate the sin/love the sinner type deal, where most Catholic/Protestant churches are going to accept you as a member, but not encourage you to keep living the lifestyle.

OK - this won't make much sense, as it ended up above Trance's post, which it should be below. How bizarre...

Posted By: Trance

There aren't any that reject homo/bisexuality. (To my knowledge, if there are please enlighten me.)

Christianity (Both Protestants and Catholics)

Post No. 680

Uh, maybe your Catholic church, but there's lots of gay (and other) people unhappy with their rejection from their church. I just did a Google News search on "catholic church gay" and here's the first thing that came up. I suspect that isn't your church?

He has "Vader" for a name, I think they threw him out in fear they wouldn't know the power of the darkside, not because he was gay!

No seriously... It's the teaching in the Bible to neither support nor reject gays. So if a Church does throw somebody out for being gay, it's obviously not a very good Church, so they did the gay couple a favour.

Posted By: sheepofdarkness

New Topic:

According to Revelation, in the new heaven and earth, there will be no more sea.

I think its the first verse of chapter 21.

Why? Is the sea evil?

I detect some subterfuge here.

Posted By: critdragon

i think its mormens who totally hate gays don't they and are totally against them. my friend is a morman and he uses his religion as an excuse for hating gays, it works because if they say anything against him he can say they are racist and people would prefer to be homophobic than racist

I hate when people use religion as an excuse to hate people. On another note, tell your friend to slap himself a few times.

EDIT: And tell him it isn't because of his religion, but just because he seems like an annoying person.

I know this mormon who goes around slapping guy's asses (jokingly)

maybe hes an exception

Almost as stupid when people use religion as an excuse to hate people...

What have you given up for Lent? I've given up swearing!

I am not catholic.