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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (220144)	2/21/2007 11:49:45 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) of 281500

To do so implies that either God was unable to speak clearly and needs someone to clarify his words. Or that he did not care to inform the common people and his words were just for the select few who can decipher it after years of work. Neither stance really makes sense to me. This is something that Muslims and fundamentalist Protestants have in common, the belief that their Holy Books represent God's inerrant word. Catholics and most Protestants believe that human error is a factor, errors in transcription, errors in translation, errors in understanding. None of us -- be it Jews, Christians or Muslims -- are lucky enough to have either the New Testament or the Septuagint in any original language. These versions are koine Greek, not Hebrew or Aramaic. There are also differences between the Septuagint and the Masoretic text but that is getting way out of my area of expertise. Almost all Christians, including most Protestants, accept that it is a struggle to comprehend the meaning of what is written, as a result of the history of these works. And we're fine with that. Our understandings improve over time, which is fascinating and even thrilling.

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