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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 01:28 PM Original message |
Here is William Tyndale's view of Christianity, from his preface to his 1534 translation |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
1. If you are in the spirit of love. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 01:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I used to see rattlers regularly when I worked on a California ranch, and I'll say that |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 02:08 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I am talking in metaphor. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 02:17 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I can't remember for sure, but maybe that's one reason I stopped dropping acid |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 02:34 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Heh, funny. |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-29-11 11:26 AM Response to Reply #1 |
35. Or for more clarity. |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
2. recommend |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
4. Those verses are still all in the Bible but many choose to ignore them. |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
5. The Golden Rule doesn't work well with masochists |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 02:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Yeah, when I have to give gifts, I always give books that I really want to read. Since my tastes |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 02:53 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Lol... I know somebody like that |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 06:18 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. I have given up giving people things entirely. I give only notices of donations. |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 06:20 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. So you deliberately give people gifts that you KNOW they won't want? |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 06:26 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Hey, I was gonna get you a copy of van der Waerden's Moderne Algebra for your birthday |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 06:47 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Tool. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 06:49 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. You have a great sense of hubris |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 06:54 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Says the man who wrote #11. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 07:17 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Shall I explain #11 to you? Jokes usually lose something in the explaining, I fear. |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 07:22 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. All that reading you do, and you can't tell the difference between 11 and 22? |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 07:30 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. The briefer explanation seemed preferable to a longer one, but perhaps I over-condensed. |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
7. Time for a good song. |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
9. But the religious right practices this -- do unto others as you would have them do unto you: |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
13. Nice job of cherry picking |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 06:33 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. I think Tyndale expresses his view of that early in "The Parable of the Wicked Mammon" -- |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 07:40 PM Response to Reply #19 |
28. Do you not even recognize |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 09:56 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. You seem to regard the explication of a view, as an attempt to provide an overwhelming logical |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-29-11 05:17 AM Response to Reply #29 |
33. You conveniently avoid mentioning |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
14. "and that he which loveth, doth of his own accord all that the law requireth" |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
18. Tyndale was certainly a brave soul. A heroic figure of the day. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 06:37 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. His "heresy" consisted of translating much of the Bible into English |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 06:50 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. To be completely punctilious, his heresy was printing his translation. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-28-11 10:15 PM Response to Reply #23 |
30. I am not a scholar on this, so perhaps get some details wrong. From Shaff's encyclopedia, |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-29-11 12:46 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Another curious corner of history. Looking around the interwebs, I see |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-29-11 02:22 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Tyndale translated a certain Greek word as 'congregation' rather than 'church' |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-29-11 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
34. Right, we just have to subordinate our normal human thoughts and behavior... |
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