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I feel misunderstood. In the Hebrew Bible, there is the tetragrammaton YHVH (or YHWH, transcription varies), In mostly appears in a form which seems to read as yehovah (the J comes from a time when I and J were not disginguished, in modern German, the J is still pronounced like consonantal y)...

English is not my mother tongue. I'm not sure what you want to say. Can you elaborate the statement to make it clear to me? What is »it«?

I think there is no special Methodist God. Christians have different perceptions about God, but of the same God. Mormon God is quite different, Christians don't believe in a God that started as a man-like creature … Many of the founding fathers were no Christians, but Deist Humanists...

The answer depends what you mean with that term. There are similarities and differences between Lollards and modern protestants. They did not teach the Lutheran doctrine of justification, they demanded that a priest should be sinless, lest the sacraments given by him were without any worth...

I'm sure there is no »Jehova« in the Aramaic Bible. So why it is in the »Aramaic Bible in Plain English«? This can be found in normal Bibles (from the Hebraic), too. Yes, it sounds like an atomic bomb (exploding probably in Syria?).

Any evidence for that?

AI is not a program in the classical sense. There is a scheme (say, neural network), by which a solution is arrived. The rules for this are rather clear. But the result is a parametrized network, and no human can explain why these parameters are this way. You know how the AI got at that...

What do you mean? I don't understand …

There is no indications that the Italian translations of Gospel ans Psalms used by the Waldensians were made by them, or contained anything heretic. Only when the Waldensians read it and preached, these books were forbidden. The Latin Church did not want any interpretation that did not support...

This is a half true. Latin Bibles. Who could read them? Moreover, since about 1200, in several European countries laymen were forbidden to read the Bible. So, at the same time when priests translated the Bible into Indian languages in South America, people in France were persecuted because...

How do you verify? I mentioned possible methods …

Not in the 1930s when Sandino lived. Communists profited quite much from the neo-colonialism and the like. This resulted sometimes in the alternative of US-backed fascism or communism. In part due to some cooperation between CIA and drug syndicates in the 1960s. The USA have forsaken the...

That's the theory. In practice, the protection is rather weak for the first 12 weeks (pregnancy weeks, counted from the last menstruation) - a woman needs a certified counseling to get a legal abortion. For certain cases (e.g. disabled fetus), abortion can be done up to the 22nd week. And...

He has not lost it, either. The voting did not even start! There will surely be some soup to support Trump, like the emailgate in 2016. We don't know what kind of coup it is (Putin will not tell if you ask him), so we cannot be sure how effective that will be. I hope you will be correct, but we...

It is not clear what he meant by this. The Hebrew satan means opponent or accuser, there are verses that use that meaning to describe men (e.g. 2.Sa 19:22). Job 1 describes an heavenly accuser (sort of »public prosecutor«). Since the incest mentioned by Paul was a crime according to Roman law...