Title: Love Source:
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Well .. let me tell ya 'bout love. The Christians hate the Jews for murdering Jesus Christ & the Jews hate the Muslims & the Muslims hate the Christians. Oh and the Christians hate the Muslims and the Jews hate the Christians. And the Muslims hate the Jews. And the world is on the brink of WW3 because everyone is just "lovey-dovey."
Basically there isn't much love beyond American politicians running for President or any other federal, state or local office giving all of us: the best days of our lives, or so they say as our taxes keep climbing while the fed prints all the money they want to cover the TRILLIONS of debt that has done nothing.
Well .. let me tell ya 'bout love. The Christians hate the Jews for murdering Jesus Christ & the Jews hate the Muslims & the Muslims hate the Christians. Oh and the Christians hate the Muslims and the Jews hate the Christians. And the Muslims hate the Jews. And the world is on the brink of WW3 because everyone is just "lovey-dovey."
Not entirely accurate. There are some self proclaimed Christians who blame the Jews for Christ's sentence and death. But those that do so should read the part where Christ forgives them for those actions. Jesus Christ on the cross put an end to any hatred or animosity by saying those Words. Christians should follow His example. Jesus Christ put into action the words He spoke. So should those who follow Him.
The guy you mention is long gone & ain't comin' back. All these other, "self-proclaimed Christians" you discuss follow the example as they see fit; it varies all over the map of individual interpretations.
You frequently comment that we cannot know what the Bible says, because languages change. That remark is beyond the pale of ignorance. We have so many manuscripts from the New Testament Era that it will take at least 100 years for scholars to review them. These manuscripts tell the meaning of words throught the N.T,
Below is but one example.
Libraries in the Ancient World
"Well, in a recent study published in 2009, there was an analysis of 53 libraries from antiquity that have been recovered intact. And what I mean by that is, the entire library: the actual literature itself—the various books—as well as supporting documentation, private letters, and things like that. The entire collection was dumped at the same time. So when scholars were sifting through the dry sands of Egypt, or whatever the location is, all of these books were found together. Of course, this is wonderful, because the books then can be studied together. We not only have copies of literature, but we have letters that have dates on them. We have correspondence talking about the books—requests that a new one be copied, or a request that one that had been loaned out be returned, and so forth. And so this kind of information has enabled scholars to reconstruct the history of the library, as it were. Now, I’m talking about 53 libraries—not archives, business papers, and that sort of thing, but libraries, [consisting] of literature. The smallest library that’s been analyzed had 12 books in it, and some of the largest have close to 1,000 books. Many of these libraries that were found intact were recovered from the dry sands of Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, where about a half million texts were recovered from 1896 on into the 20th century, when the digging finally came to an end.
The Answer for the Longevity Question
What we’ve learned is that these libraries contained books that were in use, before being retired or discarded—were in use anywhere from 150 years to 500 years. It was noticed that most of these books fell in the 200- to 300-year range before being retired or discarded or thrown out. This has enormous implications for our understanding of the NT manuscripts and [for] our question: How long were they used? What was their longevity before they were retired or thrown out? Craig A. Evans, NT308 The Reliability of New Testament Manuscripts (Logos Mobile Education; Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2014).
The libraries found at Oxyrhynchus were in a huge pile 30 feet deep.
