08-27-2004, 07:58 PM
Hey thanks everyone! Well the one guy who I thought was probably going to debate me didn't. He's actually a pretty smart age 20 something seminary grad student. A baptist I beleive.
Anyway, he said a bunch of things obviously assuminging Greek primacy. Which I ignored, but when he began to talk or theorize, how some of the New Testament quotes that appear in the NT were mostly translated by Apostle Paul from Hebrew into Greek, to go with the NT he was writing in Greek.. Well I went nuts and had to say something.
Mainly talking about how I'm always amazed at the ammount of mental gymnastics and rationalization people need to go through to believe in Greek primacy. And a couple basic reasons of the top of my head why this was a violation of basic common sense. Anyway he ignored me, and apparently decided to not debate me.
In the past, when I talked about comparative studies of Greek vs. Aramaic he has had little sneering comments but he seems to me to be really avoiding a real debate on the overall merits of Aramaic over Greek (presumable because he doesn't ever have time so he claims).
Oh well, I will continue to study and plug Aramaic. I kind of wonder what influence we can have at the grass roots level if we all are active in some degree for Aramaic apologetics and advocacy.
Anyway, he said a bunch of things obviously assuminging Greek primacy. Which I ignored, but when he began to talk or theorize, how some of the New Testament quotes that appear in the NT were mostly translated by Apostle Paul from Hebrew into Greek, to go with the NT he was writing in Greek.. Well I went nuts and had to say something.
Mainly talking about how I'm always amazed at the ammount of mental gymnastics and rationalization people need to go through to believe in Greek primacy. And a couple basic reasons of the top of my head why this was a violation of basic common sense. Anyway he ignored me, and apparently decided to not debate me.
In the past, when I talked about comparative studies of Greek vs. Aramaic he has had little sneering comments but he seems to me to be really avoiding a real debate on the overall merits of Aramaic over Greek (presumable because he doesn't ever have time so he claims).
Oh well, I will continue to study and plug Aramaic. I kind of wonder what influence we can have at the grass roots level if we all are active in some degree for Aramaic apologetics and advocacy.