Monday, January 10, 2011

Coming soon...

Sorry about the paucity of content. Having gotten my hands on some early
extant manuscripts, I am in the process of parsing several critical passages
from the New Testament that unequivocally reveal the face of the Babylonian
"church," which, as foretold in apocalyptic literature, will rise and fall (see Rev.
17). Some of you will already have experienced persecution by the universal
organization that continues to regard us as heretics, politically incorrect,
non-progressive and "outside the church."

I hope to post some translations and exegetical text in the very near future,
including the full identity of Babylonianism that is not restricted to ecclesiastic
bodies.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The Superiority of Koine Greek

It is no accident that God chose the common Greek of some 2000 years ago
to transmit His truth to every other tongue. Greek is the most accurate and
expressive of all languages. How odd then that Greek folks seem last in line
to read Scripture in their native tongue. Truth seems ever paradoxical, being
too simple for man to recognize.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Why it's all Greek to me

For ages men have argued which version of the Bible is the most accurate.
The answer is unequivocally clear: The Greek New Testament and the
Septuagint (Old Testament in Greek, aka the "LXX," the Bible Jesus used).

What makes the Greek Bible superior to all others is the grammar. No other
tongue is able to express the writer's intent with such precision; for example,
the aorist tense (punctiliar past), Greek perfect (result of the action abides),
middle voice (subject participates in the result of the action on another).
Moreover the syntax sometimes speaks as loudly as the words.

Unfortunatelysmoothing the Greek to facilitate readability in translation
may come at the price of right theology. For instance, in Luke 12:50, in the
Greek, Jesus states that His course to self-sacrifice on the cross and be
baptized by the sins of the world--past, present and future--is one wherein
He is sunechomai ('pressed from all sides with no alternative but to in one
direction'...to the cross). The Same proclaimed that "No man has a greater
love than this: to lay his life down for another."

In Gethsemane, which literally means 'oil press', Jesus the anointed was
severely pressed. He agonized over a decision that would forever
change the world. Fully human, He sought an alternative to subjecting His
purity to the filth of our sin. "Father, if there be another way, let this cup
[baptism of sin] pass. But also fully God, His divinity and love had the final
say. "But let thy will be done." Love never places self firstly."

The King James Version correctly translates sunechomai as "straitened,"
a nautical term, meaning compelled to travel on a narrow path, like a ship
through a strait. Other translations use such terms as "distressed" and
"troubled," where the meaning of Love being pressed to self-sacrifice for
others is entirely lost.