Deacon Berry: There is a hypothesis that William Shakespeare was involved in the translation of the King James bible, being the pre-eminent poet of the time.

I read that, too, and the KJV certainly has powerful poetry in it, which helps make the hypothesis so possible and the language so quotable. We may never know for sure, though, if Will contributed; what is pretty much indisputable is that 80 – 90 percent of the KJV’s language is William Tyndale’s, who translated the bible beginning in 1525 – and got burned at the stake by the catholics for it.

http://www.commonplacebook.com/current_events/the_accuracy_of.shtm

by: james

atheist tactic #1- God makes us feel uncomfortable so deny his existence and then post mock-debate tactics for theists so we dont have to take them seriously

Sigh. Another theist who thinks we secretly believe in gawd but are afraid to admit it. I think james secretly doesn’t believe in gawd, is terrified to admit it, but keeps coming back here hoping that he can figure out his confusion on the issue — only to find himself more and more confused.

Post if you like, but continue to waste space with pointless drivel and it will be messed with.

man-snausage train to cornhole glory town?

haha, wow

*PSHAW!* Really!

Caution: The sticky wicket continues to be what you’re calling “original texts;” from what the blb says, the Greek/Hebrew lexicons it uses for word study are all in the public domain – which is OK up to a certain point, except that most of those works were written kind of a long time ago (e.g., “Thayer’s work was derived (translated, revised, and enlarged) in the 1880’s from Grimm’s Lexicon of 1868. The Blue Letter Bible staff is using the corrected edition of 1889″). So the Greek or Hebrew source being referenced could possibly be out of date in comparison to more recent discoveries and updates in the field. The site admits that many of the newer publications are not available to them to post because they’re still under copyright, so blb appears to have limitations, but to give credit where credit is due, they *do* admit to them openly.

j: youll find metzger’s stuff is actually the brest[sic].

Good! His peers consider him the number one scholar in the field of the New Testament. However, don’t forget Emanuel Tov, considered Metzger’s counterpart in the Old Testament.

Sharona: I just think it would be interesting to see the entire fairy tale works together in one place.

Then clear an entire shelf of your bookcase! Seriously, though, just browsing through the Religious Reference and Bible stacks at Barnes and Noble is enough to make your head spin. A book titled The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels caught my eye, but I imagine they’ll have to update it eventually to include the Gospel of Judas, which has only just been published as a book on its own.

As for protestants bashing catholics, please; who do you think you’re fooling, claiming to be holier-than-thou? Martin Luther burned witches just like the catholics were doing at the time, and there was nary a catholic in sight at the Salem Witch Trials. At least the RCC had the sense to openly and publicly come out against creationism/intelligent design, if nothing else.