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Ancient Sanskrit would be fun. I'm going with my family for a vacation at a mountain cabin. What I should do for fun this week?

Hi Ben and welcome! :wave:

Thank you so much, all of you! :purpleheart:

Thank you, everybody is fine!

I think you're elevating "tradition" to something more than what I meant here. Sure, the text says it's the Passover meal -- but can we know more about what a Passover meal is like? Can sources outside Scripture tell us that? Studying Jewish traditions -- which aren't all expressed in the...

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. ... God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where...

I'm not sure what you mean by this? Are you saying... if you spend a lot of time studying the history of the (Roman) Catholic Church... you'll have problems too? Well yes, seeing that nobody can agree with anybody else is kind of where I'm at. But that presumes I'm starting from a position...

Do you think that Christians live in a different world than everybody else? Do you think, that as the Body of Christ, we are His hands and feet -- and that through us, His Body, he accomplishes His plan for this world?

Well, that was written 1,900+ years ago. So "the time is near" in A.D. 90 is obviously relative. And it could still be relative. Do you think in the past 1,900 years, Christianity has made the world a better place? Has the Church affected the world? Yes, God has a plan, but His plan for the...

I definitely believe we are in the last days... probably toward the end of the last days. But I have no idea what that means or when the Lord is coming back. I was raised believing in a "rapture" of the Church, but I'm questioning that idea now...

Forgive me, but remaining a child and never knowing anything isn't all that attractive to me...

So, you're saying we shouldn't study anything at all? Just go through life ignorant about the world and anything outside the Bible? I guess I should hang up my 12+ years of schooling and college plans... Where do you think studying is forbidden by the Bible?

Just be glad you don't have a toaster oven...

This fits with the question I asked earlier... I tend to think, where there's a very good and early tradition that an Apostle was in the area, there's a story about how and where he died, and how he came to where where he is claimed to rest .... there's no reason to doubt that's where he's...

To a puppy, it's all the same thing... bipedal creatures that may or may not offer food.

Sometimes I confuse Patrick Stewart with St. Patrick...

Yes, it's pretty clear he spoke primarily Aramaic, since Mark and Matthew take the time to put those words on His lips and explain them.

As far as we can tell, all four Gospel-writers used the Septuagint instead of the actual Hebrew text -- placing these word on the lips of Jesus -- as did Paul, at least in many cases. This could either be out of convenience, in not having to translate Hebrew into Greek when it had already been...

Says who? History records Marcion was branded as a heretic very early on and though he continued to have followers, what makes you say they were in the majority?

So -- thinking like a historian -- what are your sources for understanding first-century Judaism(s)? The fact is, though, that the Church did lose the Hebrew context for something like 1700 years. For that long, there was no Messianic Jewish Christianity. So, do you deny it? Ignore it? Is that...