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Jim_Baur
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“Hear, O Israel!”
This is saying–believe. The Church and the individual must first believe.
The Roman Catholic Church does this first, that is, faith first.
I believe. Then I can learn and know and have charity.
If we wanted to put scholarship first, we just might use the LXX as the only true source.
The Hebrew manuscripts are accepted on faith for the O. T. by Roman Church.
For the sake of discussion, Moses could have received the Ten Words in Egyptian or Hebrew, just to mention two languages. Biblically we don’t know, as far as I know. If I am not mistaken, Talmudic literature does have stories about the language being Egyptian. Moses could have written in the Egyptian of his day.
The N. T. is in Greek (as of now).
Therefore the Greek of the LXX could be considered the official language of the Holy Bible or God, based on scholarly argument. (I don’t want to brag, but I am not a scholar.)
Scholars, in my opinion, would not be able prove which we should use, that is, the Greek or Hebrew manuscripts.
Thus we must believe first.
A Lutheran scholar (of MLS) told me that it is through scholarship that they decided on their canon.
If that is correct, they put knowledge first and not faith (history’s best example of irony).
Also the old argument, only the Bible just does not stand. Unless some people pick the books of the Bible you can’t have a Bible. This were my Lutheran friend said we must use scholarship. Again, they discerned the Holy Bible through scholarship, not faith (if I understood and recall accurately).
Oh, we are saved by faith. We need faith first. Then we can have charity and preserve to the end. Then we can be involved in the mystery of work. Then we can be involved in the mystery of good. This is similar to going from St. Louis to Denver; one gets to Denver through Kansas City.
This is saying–believe. The Church and the individual must first believe.
The Roman Catholic Church does this first, that is, faith first.
I believe. Then I can learn and know and have charity.
If we wanted to put scholarship first, we just might use the LXX as the only true source.
The Hebrew manuscripts are accepted on faith for the O. T. by Roman Church.
For the sake of discussion, Moses could have received the Ten Words in Egyptian or Hebrew, just to mention two languages. Biblically we don’t know, as far as I know. If I am not mistaken, Talmudic literature does have stories about the language being Egyptian. Moses could have written in the Egyptian of his day.
The N. T. is in Greek (as of now).
Therefore the Greek of the LXX could be considered the official language of the Holy Bible or God, based on scholarly argument. (I don’t want to brag, but I am not a scholar.)
Scholars, in my opinion, would not be able prove which we should use, that is, the Greek or Hebrew manuscripts.
Thus we must believe first.
A Lutheran scholar (of MLS) told me that it is through scholarship that they decided on their canon.
If that is correct, they put knowledge first and not faith (history’s best example of irony).
Also the old argument, only the Bible just does not stand. Unless some people pick the books of the Bible you can’t have a Bible. This were my Lutheran friend said we must use scholarship. Again, they discerned the Holy Bible through scholarship, not faith (if I understood and recall accurately).
Oh, we are saved by faith. We need faith first. Then we can have charity and preserve to the end. Then we can be involved in the mystery of work. Then we can be involved in the mystery of good. This is similar to going from St. Louis to Denver; one gets to Denver through Kansas City.