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  1. Arsenios

    MATTHEW 3:10

    I thought both mean that unfruitful believers... whether Jew or Christian... are cut down at their roots... and cast into the fire... Meaning: "Be fruitful..." And showing a continuity between Old Testament and New...
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    Origen Here!

    What does this mean?
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    How does everyone feel about the online church sessions?

    The Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Faith really needs face to face Services, because we partake of the Body and Blood of our Savior, and that Body and that Blood do not go online at all... As a fill in for those who cannot attend, it is a poor substitute, but yet a substitute, and if...
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    Early Christian writings along with the NT...

    They kept the Orthodox Faith isolated from the rest of the world for a thousand years... A.
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    Early Christian writings along with the NT...

    No offense at all, but no Christian Faith either... May your efforts be blessed... Generally speaking, it is not even the text that is so much in question, but its meaning... Illustrated by issues of back-translating the LXX of the BC Jews... Do the Jews affirm the historical Virgin Birth of...
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    Early Christian writings along with the NT...

    No offense at all, but no Christian Faith either... May your efforts be blessed... Generally speaking, it is not even the text that is so much in question, but its meaning... Illustrated by issues of back-translating the LXX of the BC Jews... Do the Jews affirm the historical Virgin Birth of...
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    Early Christian writings along with the NT...

    Indeed - Among them the one named Stephan, in whose martyrdom Saul of Tarsus participated... Holding the garments of the killers with their stones who saw his beautiful face as that of an angel, and killed him... There were two levels of Apostles from Christ - The 12, and the 70... The 12...
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    Early Christian writings along with the NT...

    I agree with your first commentator here: Few agree on the basics, and I might add, none agree on who wrote it... What is needed, of course, would be a Synodia of pious English speaking Christians who are also speakers of both Hebrew AND Koine Greek... Who could discuss it in both...
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    Early Christian writings along with the NT...

    LXX is an ancient Roman military unit? I mean, it is certainly in mathematical terms the NUMBER 70... Is there somewhere I can read about that? A.
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    Early Christian writings along with the NT...

    Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews was written in their language and then rather woodenly translated into Greek, which is the only way to account for its awkward and strained Greek... This is a fairly commonplace understanding of that text... It was the Greek that was to be the language of the...
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    Early Christian writings along with the NT...

    It should also be understood that the Masoretic Text MAY be considered to be more than a translation of the Original OT, in that it was undertaken for the purpose of re-creating that (lost) text in a more modern version of the Hebrew Language... So unlike the LXX, which is a Jewish translation...
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    Early Christian writings along with the NT...

    Much of the NT Greek is a translation from Aramaic... eg The Book of Hebrews The Masoretic text is a translation of the Original unpointed Jewish Scrolls... So your pastor is translating a translation of the OT... A.
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    Thank-you for the welcome back... A.

    Thank-you for the welcome back... A.
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    There were disciplinary issues that mods were trying to get your guidance on, but you were busy...

    There were disciplinary issues that mods were trying to get your guidance on, but you were busy elsewhere, if I remember it aright...
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    When I was here a couple of years back, you were not posting, and seemed not active here much...

    When I was here a couple of years back, you were not posting, and seemed not active here much...
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    Thank-you - We do not know each other yet... Are you kind of "back" yourself...? Some of this is...

    Thank-you - We do not know each other yet... Are you kind of "back" yourself...? Some of this is hard to take... eg Unprofitable for any...
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    Early Christian writings along with the NT...

    Thank-you... So if all translations are translations of translations, your pastor is not translating the original, but only a translation, and you are relying on his scholarship, and when he dies, it's over until you can find a new leader... Orthodoxy, on the other hand, is the...
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    Early Christian writings along with the NT...

    You can go to the Greek Bible in Greece to this day and find a translation of the Original Greek Bible into Demotic Greek... There you will find from the Lord's Prayer: "Give us this day a loaf of bread." That is what happened to the Original unpointed Hebrew text of the OT... It was...
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    Early Christian writings along with the NT...

    I have a hard time following my own advice too... If what you way is true, it would not have been received by the Jews in the first century AD as it was... And it would probably have been translated by Greeks, and not Jews... Arsenios
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    Early Christian writings along with the NT...

    So why does your pastor use a non-Christian (and anti-Christian) translation of the OT from it's original Hebrew of 200+ BC into a post-Hellenic Jewish version of that no longer existent text that was translated by post-Hellenic Jews opposed to Christianity? The Masoretic Text is itself a...
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