Only going by the evidence available. You certainly talk as though you have no clue that this topic is known, studied, and taught in churches.
Why would you go on like this if you knew the subject was known & studied??
The problem that we have here, Mrs Smith, is the same one that pops up whenever you involve yourself in an academic discussion of Scripture, and scriptural events......the sources that you cite are
purely parochial, and are limited to YOUR church, pastor, and YOUR denominations interpretation of events and texts. You say above that you are going on the "evidence available", when your statement should read......."the evidence available that I agree with, or that my pastor and congregation agrees with".
MSB approaches the discussion from an academic perspective, and presents well researched materials that are matters of common belief and understanding to religious scholars, and have stood the test of time over centuries of study and challenge.......because YOUR church, and its associated documents, tracts, and patriarchs don't agree with that
is irrelevant.
Based on what I've seen here in this thread alone suggests to me that MSB's understanding of Hebrew history and the correct interpretation of Jewish law dwarfs any protestant preacher that I have ever discussed the topic with.....you would be better served to listen and learn, rather than challenging his every position with some half-baked source that your particular branch of Christianity clings to to make themselves feel good.......
As I have mentioned to you in another similar discussion, when I need to educate myself on a point of OT history, or Jewish Law, I sit down and talk to a
Rabbi......they wrote it, live by it, and they are the experts.......most protestant ministers that I have had the misfortune to discuss the subject with simply don't know what they are talking about, regarding the OT.......and exhibit an alarming tendency to twist the OT Scriptures into pretzels to support some of their pet beliefs in the New Testament.......
that isn't scholarship......that is parochialism.....If you wish to start your own thread to discuss your beliefs, and the specific understandings of your congregation, please feel free to do so, and I will treat any poster that jumps in to distort your presentation in the same manner that I'm doing here.......have your discussion, and we will read it and make our own choices if it has merit or not, without resorting to disputing your every word.......that is fair......
I started this thread to discuss the broad issue of translation inconsistancies in the KJV specifically, and English translations of our Canon in general........because you don't like the fact that they exist, or don't agree with the conclusions, does not matter.......its your opinion......and your opinion bears no more weight than anyone else's in the discussion.......just because you imply that "Righteousness and Divine Intervention" are on your side does not make it so......it just makes you appear to be a fundamentalist bully......
Please keep the discussion on topic for the thread.
doc