[Bulk] Re: The Name of the Lord.
Ed Kasky
ed at esson.net
Mon Jan 21 21:22:08 UTC 2008
At 11:53 AM Monday, 1/21/2008, you wrote -=>
>William Case wrote:
>>Hi Ric;
>>
>>Just sitting here Sunday morning killing time before I actually do
>>something useful. Thought I would add my 2¢.
>I am religious and I'll add my 2 cents.
>In the cultural context that the verse was
>written, the name of a god was used to call upon
>the power of the god. That's why it was such a
>big deal when God revealed his covenant name to Jacob.
>
>When you don't take the cultural context of the
>time/region of what it meant to use the name of
>a god into your understanding of the passage, you end up mis-interpreting it.
>
>Unfortunately most Bible translations do a poor
>job at noting these cultural things in their
>footnotes, so all kinds of funny interpretations result.
And all this has exactly what to do with the Fedora OS?
I would like to point out that basic netiquette
dictates off topic discussions be kept
private. I think that would apply to this situation. Please...
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