He is risen!

[Elok]

Will someone reply to my question?
Were names like peter and george and john jewish names or were they made up to fit the occasion?

Did not reply b/c I didn't know and figured an "IDK" response would be more aggravating than none at all.

[Bereta_Eder]

Ok. It's not that all of them mean something concrete in greek but some certaintly do. So I was just wondering.
That steams from sitting on the same table with some jewish (israeli) friends and other friends from all over and I was watching around and thought holy sh!t, if nomatology is concerned we're basically powning everyone in here.
But then I looked at the israeli friends, and said, nope that's not true, those (greeks) of us that have christian names, have their names so they outrank us at the nomatology ancienticity game.
Anyway hehe

[Lorizael]

I'm still not totally sure why I'm religious, though I know that I am. I think the bottom reason is that what most or all major religions have in common is not so much God but the notion that human beings are sick and broken. I find this to be true, so I follow the advice of people who've been thinking about human brokenness for a long, long time. I allow that, being so broken, we may have gotten any number of things wrong. But it still seems better to do the best I can, from my limited perspective, to become less broken. Really I don't have any choice, it seems; true nihilism is not psychologically feasible, and I can't swallow attempts to downplay our bugs or recast them as features. That leaves religion, and I find Orthodoxy the most compelling of faiths.

As always, my universe-consuming cult is open to all.

A lot of theologians would say that this is a very wise statement, FWIW.

Yeah, maybe, but then they'd go on to talk about about how God is three entities in one and all that jazz, which sounds rather definitive to me.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well, not really. Any decent theologian will preface by saying this is what we/I believe God to be, therefore CYA .

[DaShi]

b/c for some reason this page is perpetually reloading itself ("waiting for ib.adnxs.com" flickering rapidly in the lower corner, no matter what I do), and it's annoying as hell. It's been doing this since I came back yesterday.

Yes. This. 100% Who's running this mad house?!

[Dr Strangelove]

Will someone reply to my question?
Were names like peter and george and john jewish names or were they made up to fit the occasion?

There were no disciples named "George", I think you're getting them mixed up with the Beatles.

[Sava]

ringo 5:14

[Dr Strangelove]

I've been having trouble loading the pages of Apolyton. I'll get the home page then pound away for a half minute to get the list of forum pages, then pound away trying to get any of them to load, then when one loads I have trouble opening any threads, then when loaded it won't scroll. Funny thing, that's all corrected after having loaded one thread.

[Bereta_Eder]

There were no disciples named "George", I think you're getting them mixed up with the Beatles.

indeed, indeed

http://www.behindthename.com/name/george

Γεωργός = farmer
Γεώργιος = George

[Elok]

ringo 5:14

"And when the day of judgment came, I found my companions had deserted me, and none remembered me any longer, neither did any man listen to the sound of my cry."

[Bereta_Eder]

ah, but john comes from hebrew and it means gracious

http://www.behindthename.com/name/john

So George means farmer
John means gracious

[Bereta_Eder]

paul seems to be roman/latin and means small or humble

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_%28name%29#Origin_and_diffusion

nice

[Bereta_Eder]

and constantine means steadfast/ constant (latin based)

http://www.behindthename.com/name/constantine

well whatdoyouknow

[Bereta_Eder]

and sava means old man apparently

http://www.behindthename.com/name/sabas

well wise man more like

[Kidlicious]

This thread seems like as good a place as any for my question.

So I'm taking a medieval history course this semester, and we've just gotten to a bit about Christian persecution of Jews. Accusations of blood libel and host desecration, slaughtering Jews on the way to Jerusalem while crusading, making them wear distinctive clothes, all that jazz. But there's one part of the whole Christian antisemitism thing that I've never really understood. That is...

...why is Christ's crucifixion a bad thing? (Antisemitic) Christians "blame" Jews for killing Jesus (for some reason forgetting the Romans) and thus don't like Jews. (We're ignoring the many possible nonreligious aspects of why there was persecution of Jews here.) Except that without Christ's crucifixion and subsequent resurrection, there is no washing away of sin and no chance of salvation through Christ and no Christianity at all. So why is killing Jesus a blameworthy event that "justifies" some really ****ed up behavior later on?

The Jews didn't just crucify Christ. They persecuted the early church.