tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post2210976964825027561..comments2024-03-28T10:44:30.518-06:00Comments on American Creation: John Adams' Partially Inspired BibleBrad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-58363706010392533632010-06-28T18:02:41.939-06:002010-06-28T18:02:41.939-06:00Ray,
I never read it but I never heard that one a...Ray,<br /><br />I never read it but I never heard that one about Luke. A guy named Doug Sparks that I personally knew wrote a fiction book based on a lot of Hamilton's research that makes a lot of sense. He is also part of the Emerging Church movement that is questioning a lot of dogma and revisiting controversies that go way back.King of Irelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-1988263879716214242010-06-28T09:16:48.233-06:002010-06-28T09:16:48.233-06:00"If Lightfoot derived light from what escaped...<i>"If Lightfoot derived light from what escaped from Gregory's fury, in explaining many passages in the New Testament, by comparing the expressions of the Mishna with those of the Apostles and Evangelists, how many proofs of the corruptions of Christianity might we find in the passages burnt?"</i><br /><br />BTW, I did some reading on this. The original Babylonian Talmud survived the burnings; there are no lost mysteries of the sort that DaVinci Code Adams proposes.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-5738953442498002972010-06-28T07:47:15.478-06:002010-06-28T07:47:15.478-06:00KOI, I'm guessing the guy from YWAM are the tw...KOI, I'm guessing the <i>guy from YWAM</i> are the two women and man authors (Loren Cunningham, Janice Rogers, and David Joel Hamilton) who wrote the book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Why-Not-Women-Biblical-Leadership/dp/1576581837" rel="nofollow"><i>Why Not Women: A Biblical Study of Women in Missions, Ministry, and Leadership</i></a>. Can't say that I've read the book, but I would like to know if the book addresses the question as to whether the <a href="http://jaysolomon.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/fun-with-the-bible-was-the-author-of-the-gospel-of-luke-really-a-woman/" rel="nofollow">author of Luke was a woman</a>. <br /> <br />John Adams, I think, would have appreciated a book like <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/gs/j/38" rel="nofollow"><i>Jeus the Jew</i></a> by Geza Vermes, and if Adams had dared develop the <i>eyes and nerves</i> to do so, he might have been able to scoop Richard Carrier who addressed the major chronological inconsistencies beween the nativities in Matthew and Luke. (See <a href="http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/quirinius.html" rel="nofollow"><i>The Date of the Nativity in Luke</i></a>, 2006). It's obvious, though, that Jefferson, Adam's pen pal, decided in favor of Luke's nativity, since it never made the cut when he edited his gospel narrative.Ray Sollerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07950061062767093373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-73645119927544164922010-06-28T06:20:36.137-06:002010-06-28T06:20:36.137-06:00Here's a LDS website, The Joseph Smith Transla...Here's a LDS website, The <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/jst/contents" rel="nofollow"><i>Joseph Smith Translation</i></a> (JST), that tabulates some of the differences between the JST and the KJV. The introduction explains that "Joseph’s translation was more revelation than literal translation from one language into another." Here's another <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/gs/j/38" rel="nofollow">related site</a> with more background.Ray Sollerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07950061062767093373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-21763027007973072062010-06-27T23:11:04.767-06:002010-06-27T23:11:04.767-06:00"If Lightfoot derived light from what escaped..."If Lightfoot derived light from what escaped from Gregory's fury, in explaining many passages in the New Testament, by comparing the expressions of the Mishna with those of the Apostles and Evangelists, how many proofs of the corruptions of Christianity might we find in the passages burnt?"<br /><br />I still do not see his problem with the New Testament, other than there are interpolations(which there most certainly are, a guy from YWAM wrote a good book on it about women in ministry), but with translations and interpretations of it. <br /><br />Example would be that Genesis is a myth. This would be heresy in many places. But it does not have a problem with the Bible just the interpretations. You see a lot of these issues coming up in the Emergent Church. Reminds me of many of the arguments the Catholics used to have.King of Irelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-69072077423999592172010-06-27T21:38:12.492-06:002010-06-27T21:38:12.492-06:00This idea crops up from time to time across early ...This idea crops up from time to time across early American history. Joseph Smith, for example, worked on an edited version of the Bible once he finished writing or translating (depending on one confessional position) the Book of Mormon. If I remember rightly, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Missouri Mormons rather than the Utah Mormons) publish Smith's edited version of the Bible as the "Inspired Version."Mark D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05000893614655251587noreply@blogger.com