Again, this is a supernatural event, not a natural. I can say that I have never seen unicorn in the scriptures until the past few years. Much less satyr.
I'm not here to debate that, just testify to my own experience.
In other words, they "remembered" it as they'd say it in modern American English. Just as they "remember" Humphrey Bogart telling Dooley Wilson "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca, although that's not really what he said. And that's what M.E. is in simplest terms - remembering things wrong. No spookiness necessary.
Oh, if you're looking for a good story I'm not the guy you need. I prefer plain old workaday reality to mystical foofoo, which makes me something of a killjoy in discussions where spiritual jiggery-pokery is what most of the participants are shooting for.
I've found that "the devil could do that" is the basis for a lot of really silly ideas that Christians come up with. Plus it's a lot more "spiritual" to believe, or purport to believe, that the devil has changed history than that we're getting older and our memory isn't what it once was. The real world is boring, and a movie made of most our lives wouldn't keep anyone awake for very long. But if Satan his own self is changing history on us, now that's a story! Now it's not just creeping senility, it's a battle between Good and Evil, God and Satan! It's not just "a lot of people think Nelson Mandela died in prison", it's "Nelson Mandela died in prison, but Satan has changed the past so he didn't until later." Sounds like a Dr. Who episode, except that The Doctor would have set it right again before the closing credits.
This stuff is of no interest to me! And again, not interested in debate either. And what kind of knuckle head would think the earth is flat?
I have a question then. Is it your faith that saves you? No, that would be an act of works. It takes grace through faith. That act of grace that gives you a new reborn soul is a spiritual happening. Not a natural happening. If you admit to that, then you have to admit to spiritual things also happening even today. And prophesy that is true prophesy being fulfilled.
So I take it you're convinced...
I have no reason to believe he can do either.
Newer translations, yeah. Although my grandmother's favorite Korean translation hasn't undergone any recent changes, so you can always refer that.
Just because someone believes that the text of the KJV on their shelf has somehow changed doesn't make it true, it just ruins their credibility.
For example?
Archaic spelling. Music was musick, havoc = havock, almanac/almanack, etc. The Brits still use some of the old forms, theatre/theater, colour/color, gaol/jail, defence/defense, and like that, but they're seldom if ever used in the States. But be of good cheer, Old Nick can't manage to add or remove letters from any Bible currently sitting on your desk.
Or those with less imagination.
Means the orthography has a changed. Hardly a diabolical plot discerned by the "spiritual" few.
What do you believe that He really said?
Clear;ly written, anyway.
I think it safe to say I won't lose much sleep worrying about what some people claim to "remember".
Agreed.
Sure. Which most certainly does not lead me to conclude that every bit of superstitious hogwash that anyone dreams up must be true because they say it's "spiritual". That's the Harold Camping schtick: "The Lord really returned last week but only the spiritual discerned it. Nope, old Harold is just a liar, "spiritual" claims notwithstanding.
Properly so. The "spiritual" is too subjective and too easily claimed without any shred of evidence. Scholarship says "Show me in Scripture and in fact"." "Spiritualism" says "believe what I say on my spiritual authority". Plus the dividing line between spiritualism and plain superstition is way too vague for comfort.
Or maybe I'm just the kind of guy who works off this paradigm: "26“Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it. 27For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 28For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together."
