dzheremi
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If i might add to your comment about "original greek".
There is no such thing, as the "original greek".
Yes there is. There is the original Greek phrase from which we get the English term. That's what I mean by "original Greek".
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his is "scholarshipeze - speak" and has nothing to do with truth or reality.
What on earth are you talking about? Etymology isn't "schoarshipeze-speak", whatever that even means. If you want to conflate being against learning things with being pious, that's on you, but this is a bunch of gibberish.
What we have, as greek texts, are about 30 completed ones, which are all copies of copies of copies, with the occasional very early parchment preserved, usually as a piece or a part.
I'm not talking about Biblical manuscripts. I'm talking about the etymology of particular words.
We have the Dead Sea Scrolls that are accepted by some manuscript evidence experts, but not by all.
So, if you are going to try to sound like an authority on "original extant" texts, on a public forum, you first need to learn that there is no original greek text....
See above.
Also, for the sake of being valid and authentic, its best to write what you have learned, instead of cutting and pasting other's work.
Citing sources is pretty standard practice, because "what you have learned" doesn't really mean anything in itself if it's not based on anything. Anyone can claim to have learned anything. The only thing anyone should care about when you make statements about things that are factually (dis)provable is what you can actually prove by citing relevant sources, as you yourself have already done elsewhere in your reply by talking about extant Biblical manuscripts, even though that's not what I was talking about in the first place.
Anyway, you're clearly intending to have a different conversation here than I am, and I"m going to bow out of yours now, because I care about my time and brain cells. Take care.
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