In the beginning was the word... (15)

No, some of it was written by someone who thought there should be some basic rules for nomadic tribes wandering around the desert. The rest was written by control freaks.

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It's the KJV (I think) translation of Greek where Jesus is described as Logos (the word) and it's sort of fundamental in that the chapter as a whole implies that Jesus IS God, coexists with God and that Jesus, as the Word of God, was sent to earth to make the word plain to people. Theologians will correct me.

If it was written, in English, it was one of the committee who put together the King James version. I know little about them but they made a damn fine job of creating a sonorously memorable piece of literature, beyond most baboons, I think.

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on the sixth day, god created a primate, and saw that it would eventually evolve into something that would nick his apple.

And all men kill the thing they love, By all let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!

Edited 7 Dec 11, 5:23 PM by Attitude_Adjuster

Nonsense, this was all before the creation of man.

All hail Discordia.

irene.

"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant or the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service that is rendered in a spirit of joy."
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Hang on a MO..

Are you saying this is NOT all the words of god!!!!

:-o

Down with the JAMs

irene.

"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant or the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service that is rendered in a spirit of joy."
Mahatma Gandi

Hang on, surely primates would have been made along with the beasts of the earth and birds of the air???

Bomb the SDS

irene.

"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant or the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service that is rendered in a spirit of joy."
Mahatma Gandi

'Man' was around a long time before writing developed. Writing is man made, so nothing could be written until 'we' invented it.

I raise your nonsense, and say "Bollocks" to your baboon assertion.

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They just repeated the words in question from Miles Coverdale's translation and its revision as the "Great Bible". Coverdale, in turn, repeated those of William Tyndale. The 1611 translators made very few changes to the pre-existing text and confined themselves to sorting out what they perceived to be previous inaccuracies or ambiguities. They simply revised the work of Tyndale and Coverdale by committee work and with greater expertise in the ancient tongues.

The whole thing was a political stunt by the very crafty James VI & I (a keen student of Machiavelli). As soon as this bunch of potential trouble-makers had their noses to the laborious grindstone and clever Jimmy had collected the Protestant kudos he so badly needed, his object had been achieved and he lost interest in the project. The new translation consequently tanked when it came out and virtually disappeared. The Great Bible remained in most churches, whilst the Calvinist Geneva Bible continued to be the one generally used, and was the bible of the revolution and the Commonwealth.

It was only 50 years later, after the restoration, that a need was felt for a "kingly" bible to assist in suppressing the Calvinist version. The 1611 translation was then dusted off and reprinted without the previous compositor's errors (or were they?), such as "Thou shalt commit adultery".

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