>>> WSeamus wrote:
>>>> On Jul 2, 11:51 pm, arewhanariki
gmail.com> wrote:>>>>> Why does this matter? Why do you doubt the Scriptures? Where is your
>>>>> faith? Oh I forgot this is going to wiccan and magickal groups from an
>>>>> adult-children group and Christianity is totally off topic.
>>>> Well, yes, but all cross-posting aside, the Bible as we know it today
>>>> was written by people like Kings James I and Henry VIII, who are
>>>> people that only a blazing idiot would trust.
>>>>
>>> We don't read that version, we use the Septuagint, the translation
>>> according to the 70. Look at night I have to help my kid and not you, go
>>> to
monachos.net, go to
ocadow.org, go to the Orthodox list at
>>>
listserv.indiana.edu to biblical studies @
yahoogroups.com for starters,
>>> ok? Do your own research and get back to me. The day time is better for
>>> me to email.
>>>
>>> Olympiada
>>
>> You claim you can read Koine Greek?
> Look, I read the Bible and the Holy Fathers for Orthodox by Johanna
> Manley. And if I have questions, I can call her up. I do not make claims.
> I state facts. I can not read Koine Greek. I don't even know what that is.
Koine Greek is the language of the Septuagent, which is the version of the
Bible you just claimed you read, is written. If you do not read Koine Greek,
you cannot be reading the Septuagent.
I also read the ORthodox Study Bible that my first
> spiritual father gave me for my 25th birthday at my request from Archangel
> Bookstore, that's on the Internet, look it up. I am not going to argue
> about the Bible with you. I can barely keep up my morning prayer rule. I
> have been failing at it for weeks now because I am so drowsy because of
> this damn Effexor. So don't poke it at me. Plus I just got reprimanded by
> a reader and told to read St. John 4 so I am BUSY. I haven't been reading
> the Bible as of late, its true, save for the Psalms of David, that's how
> dejected I have been and they uplift my heart. And I have his icon on my
> wall too, I do love King David.
> As I stated, night time is a bad time for me to read newsgroups. Daytime
> is better. Try and hold your questions off until the morning, please.
> Olympiada
