The deluded Dawkins

[Chico]

Chico, God gave Dawkins the ability to think for himself, maybe god slipped up and should have just made us all morons like you.

Thinking for himself? Not according to the Guardian. You crack me up.

Why are the atheists always angry?

[Chico]

Judge Not, Chico, lest thou be Judged...

nah you got it wrong mate. according to the original Greek it is Condemn not, lest you be condemned.

[Cowboy Bob]

nah you got it wrong mate. according to the original Greek it is Condemn not, lest you be condemned.

That just shows what a joke the bible is. How can it be the original Greek if the major players in the saga would have spoken Aramaic?

What you mean by original Greek is what language the scribe used who wrote down the story a few hundred years after the event (and possibly copied from and mistranslated from the original Aramaic scrolls). To call the is any way original or contemporary to the supposed events portrayed is laughable.

[Chico]

That just shows what a joke the bible is. How can it be the original Greek if the major players in the saga would have spoken Aramaic?

What you mean by original Greek is what language the scribe used who wrote down the story a few hundred years after the event (and possibly copied from and mistranslated from the original Aramaic scrolls). To call the is any way original or contemporary to the supposed events portrayed is laughable.

Education time. The New Testament was written originally in Greek by the first apostles. Why because they were written mostly for a new converts to the faith who were not Jews. Greek was the main language at the time, much like English is today.

[Mordac]

Self styled atheists I hasten to add.

Self-styled, as in "we think for ourselves, instead of being told what to think by others, who may or may not have nefarious motives" you mean?

[sasguru]

Chico, what a tedious bore you are. It's not even fun to take the piss any more, because it feels like mocking the afflicted. Now bugger off to the sanatorium where you belong.

[snaw]

Education time. The New Testament was written originally in Greek by the first apostles. Why because they were written mostly for a new converts to the faith who were not Jews. Greek was the main language at the time, much like English is today.

The common languages spoken by both Jews and Gentiles in the holy land at the time of Jesus were Aramaic, Koine Greek, and to a limited extent a colloquial dialect of Mishnaic Hebrew. (Quite similar to the present-day polylinguistic situation for Jews in New York City, who may speak English, Yiddish, and a smattering of ecclesiastical Hebrew.) However, the original text of the New Testament was most likely written in Koine, the vernacular dialect in 1st-century Roman provinces of the Eastern Mediterranean, and has since been widely translated into other languages, most notably, Latin, Syriac, and Coptic. However, some of the Church Fathers seem to imply that Matthew was originally written in Hebrew or Aramaic, and there is another contention that the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews wrote in Hebrew, which was translated into Greek by Luke. Neither view holds much support among contemporary scholars, who argue that the literary facets of Matthew and Hebrews suggest that they were composed directly in Greek, rather than being translated.

A very small minority of scholars consider the Aramaic version of the New Testament to be the original and believe the Greek is a translation (see Aramaic primacy).

Debatable ... plus as to the apostoles writing it themselves, well that's very debatable

[Mordac]

It's not even fun to take the piss any more, because it feels like mocking the afflicted.

Speak fer yerself Sas, I like mocking the afflicted.

[AtW]

Speak fer yerself Sas, I like mocking the afflicted.

I suppose after beating up nurses (or were them nuns?) it is the next step...

[Cowboy Bob]

Education time. The New Testament was written originally in Greek by the first apostles. Why because they were written mostly for a new converts to the faith who were not Jews. Greek was the main language at the time, much like English is today.

Rubbish. The New Testament is a collection of works cherry picked from ancient Aramaic scrolls. We have some of the originals which were not included that were found at Nag Hammadi. We also have the Dead Sea Scrolls, also in Aramaic. These are much more contemporaneous than the Greek scrolls which were deliberately changed for political reasons by the cronies of Emporer Constantine at the Council of Nicea (hence why Mary is portayed as a whore when according to the Dead Sea Scrolls - in the Gospel of Thomas and other books - she was actually one of the disciples, and possibly Jesus' wife).

I may not be a Christian, but I know my Christian history. The thing is that believers often either pervert the real history in favour of their own faith or just deliberately ignore it as it's not "convenient".