The King James Authorized
version of the Bible is familiar to many, but few know about the
Geneva Bible, preceding the King James authorized translation by 51 years. It was the primary
Bible of the 16th century Protestants and used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Dunne, and John Bunyan (author of Pilgrim's Progress). It was one of the Bibles taken to America aboard
the Mayflower. Oliver Cromwell had pocket editions
printed for his soldiers at the time of the English Civil War.
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I have always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges
So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Saint John, Letter to Galatians 4:16
So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Saint John, Letter to Galatians 4:16
Freedom of Religion - Freedom from Religion - Freedom of Public Display of Religion and Traditions
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. We command no worship. We mandate no belief. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave it bereft of belief. All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief.
-- Ronald Reagan (Temple Hillel Speech, 1984)
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Friday, June 27, 2014
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Chapter 8: Jesus of Nazareth, The Christ of Christianity
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Subject Labels:
Bible,
Biography,
Christianity,
Eastern Orthodox,
Gnostic,
Holy Roman Catholic Church,
Jesus,
Mary Magdalene,
New Testament,
Phenomenology of World Religions,
Protestant,
Qumran Library,
Scriptures
Phenomenology of World Religion
Chapter 18
Jesus of Nazareth - Foreword
There are also many things which Jesus did, that if they should be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain all the books that would be written. Saint John the Apostle/Evangelist
Introduction to Chapter Eight
Before I begin the complex examination of the historical and spiritual character known as Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus the Christ, I would like to inform the reader that scripture passages quoted come from the King James Version of the Holy Bible, unless otherwise noted. I do this because I feel that re-translated scriptures and text from the Holy Bible, Old and New Testaments have corrupted its meaning. It is like whispering a phrase in a circle of friends and by the time it reaches back to the originator, it is out of context. The Holy Bible is an anthology of texts, Hebrew in origin and later written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Middle English and many other languages, totaling to about 80 languages and dialects.
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