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In a message dated 2/8/2003 10:48:17 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
mattfeld12 AT charter.net writes:

> The Early Christians did NOT use the Hebrew Masoretic text they used the
> Greek Septuaginta. Now as we both know this Greek translation according the
> rules of translation that you have just expounded upon, is a "sorry"
> translation indeed ! Yet this "sorry" translation is the VERY corner stone
> of Early Christian belief.
> 

Walter,

You are indisputably wrong here.  The early church did use the LXX.  But it 
also used the MT (or should I say its precursor).  You can find passages that 
clearly come from the LXX and you can find passages clearly translated 
directly from the Hebrew.

gfsomsel
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Raymond wrote:

"I suppose you are joking, because this can hardly be serious. If not, I
would suggest that you first try to understand the doctrine of the Trinity
in christian belief, BEFORE you write such nonsense and make yourself
ridiculous. Of course there have been -as in every religion- some extremists
in history, but what you are writing is absolutely not the main vision
within christian belief concerning the trinity."

Dear Raymond,

As you are well aware, Christianity is not a monolithic intsitution, its a
bewildering array of sects, Baptist, Congregational, Pentecostal, Catholic,
Christian Scientist, Mormon, Universalist. To say that one is in error
because one is not in line with "the main vision of the Trinity" seems
incredulous to me.  ALL have a right to their beliefs and interpretations of
Holy Writ, even if they fail to meet the "high standards" of Academia.

So, I can assure you that based on my religious upbringing, which was of a
Protestant, Fundamentalist background, I WAS NOT JOKING about Christ being
the God that worked 6 days and rested on the 7th, and that he gave the Torah
to Israel at Mt. Sinai. That your religious background and training holds
these views as ridiculous is your perogative. That is one of the problems I
see in the body of Christ, the differing sects devouring each other,
claiming ONLY they have the correct interpretation of Holy Writ and that the
other sects are WRONG.

Regards, Walter