1550?
You have access to Paul's autograph, do you?
I ran this through the translator, and here's what came out:
Perhaps you could tell me if this stuff is Koine Greek or Classical Greek -- assuming it's even Greek?
The English translation of the above almost makes as much sense backward as forward.
For God's sake (literally), learn something about your own Bible. I'm not going to tell you why 1550 is a significant date in the history of the Bible. Go find out for yourself. You
should know - you have no excuse for not knowing.
I'm an atheist, I'm no biblical scholar - although I had a classical education which means the NT is one of the best points of comparison for the differences between NT Greek and Classical Greek and the subtle and not so subtle differences. Maybe read the Origin of Species too, so you know what is you're actually knocking on our front too.
That you'd punch this text into Google translate and seriously comment on the results shows a catastrophic disrespect for the Bible itself that is completely at odds with belief in it.
You know, if I believed in a God, I'd at least afford Him the respect of looking more than superficially into what He was supposed to have written. I'd be ecstatic to do so in fact, given it's supposed to be His Word. There's really not that much to it, and it's not like you have to be able to speak Greek to at least appreciate the subtleties that lie within - subtleties that I enjoy looking into even as an ardent atheist. Whilst I reject the Bible as a moral basis or historical document, I can appreciate a great work of literature and one of the best preserved texts from a much earlier time in human civilization.
I can appreciate the inherent elegance and depth in a single word that has no direct translation into English, a language we think is so complete, yet the fact there can be concepts that have deep meaning only in the original language - beautiful.
The Biblical literalists, in their futile quest to disprove science and build museums to an allegory, have so often missed the beauty in the Bible that IS there, almost in its entirety - and many atheists miss it too in their all too quick dismissal of it.
How many other books do we actually have preserved in such a state from the 4th Century CE and beyond? It is a hugely important part of our history as a society, as errant as one might think it is in terms of teaching modern morality, as filled with contradictions and illogical reasoning as I think it is; to not know it, read it, and try to digest it, especially as it was written and not as it was interpreted by others, is to fail catastrophically.
