Greatest Sect of Christianity

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'm assuming that they knew that there aren't that many rectangles on the original manuscript, that you are the only one stupid enough to believe that those rectangles were language characters.

Just because your browser sucks doesn't mean the rest of ours do.

[Kidlicious]

That's rich coming from a relativist like you.

[Kidlicious]

Kid really just has the "historical Jesus" problem, common to all who dig past the crusty ol' layers of accumulated corruptions and interpolations put there by THE MAN to find the real, true original Jesus of Nazareth: they find a person who's basically identical to themselves, only a long time ago, better-spoken and sometimes with a gloss of the supernatural depending on what prejudices the inquirer started with. The Historical Jesus starts out as a religious Rorschach test and winds up as an almighty Mary Sue. But what do I know? I'm part of the corrupt church tradition that turned this awesome radical preacher into a tool of the establishment.

Oh yeah? Well you believe in the moral relativist Jesus, who changes his mind with every passing geneeration, talks out of the side of his mouth like a politition, and hacks up the Bible.

[Kidlicious]

Technically, but the ones who do it in style don't just distort the Bible and disregard contemporary opinions as unacceptably biased; they also dig into deuterocanonical or heretical scriptures and pick the ones that fit their theory to be anointed as "more authentic." It's all in the execution.

More seriously, I think this is a general problem in Christianity; we tend not only to turn Jesus into an image of ourselves, we anthropomorphize God, and our very conception of divinity. We're just more subtle about it. There's a Kallistos Ware quote I really like, from "The Inner Kingdom." I don't recall it exactly, but it goes something like "true faith is a constant dialogue with doubt, for our every conception of God is an idol which requires smashing." Perhaps I shouldn't get into apophatic theology at 11 PM when my wife is tired, though.

You smash YOUR idol.

[Lorizael]

Just because your browser sucks doesn't mean the rest of ours do.

That's rich coming from a relativist like you.

[Kidlicious]

How would it be the original text to me with the rectangles (according to a relativist)?

[Elok]

Are you talking about the rectangles your browser displays when it doesn't know the characters a webpage is telling it to display? I don't know that any theologian, whether self-appointed or with an M.Div., would say browser errors are spiritually significant.

[Kidlicious]

Are you talking about the rectangles your browser displays when it doesn't know the characters a webpage is telling it to display? I don't know that any theologian, whether self-appointed or with an M.Div., would say browser errors are spiritually significant.

Wait for it.

[loinburger]

It makes as much sense as anything else he's posted in this thread

"This site requires javascript??? You hack!"

[Elok]

Wait for it.

Wait for what? Are you going to explain later how your not having the character set for Greek is relevant, or will it become clear on its own?

[loinburger]

[molly bloom]

Don't tell me you're one of those Shakespeare revisionists? The play hamlet is about a small village.

It's really about an actor manager of diminutive stature and Shatner like acting abilities. This was a truth revealed to me in a personal revelation by Sweet William's spirit, as I sat through a double of 'Titus Andronicus' and 'Two Gentlemen Of Verona' in a state of advanced flu one winter in Stratford Upon Avon.

This revelation was vouchsafed to me because I was born nearby and have quite a few molecules of Shakespeare permeating my being.

[Kidlicious]

Wait for what? Are you going to explain later how your not having the character set for Greek is relevant, or will it become clear on its own?

I'm not a relativist, but if I were, why would explainations and clarity matter.

[loinburger]

I'm not a relativist, but if I were, why would explainations and clarity matter.

Please define "relativism." You've used it about two hundred times in this thread but I don't think you know what it means.

[Kidlicious]

Again, loinburger, we have Bibles in English now.