Michael Scott wrote:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 7:44 PM, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Michael Scott via luv-talk wrote:
[…] Russell seemed to have a great knowledge of Christianity, from his childhood.
Note that Christianity is practiced differently by different communities, so e.g. growing up in Nagorno does not automatically make you qualified to talk about Axumite Christians.
I'm talking about Christianity as it is taught in the Bible. Again, I'm not an expert, but I am a Christian with a bit of knowledge of the Bible, not of traditions carried on by different communities, even Roman Catholic.
Ah, but *which* Bible? :-) In Nagorno-Karabakh they use an Armenian translation, I presume straight from the Greek/Syriac versions (Septuagint). In Axum they use a Ge'ez translation, I presume straight from Amharic, which is even older. If you're reading KVJ, that has (AIUI) passed through several generations of Latin jiggery-pokery, during which time who knows what happened to the original message? Cf. pterry's (apocryphal) example of drowning witches in treacle making a lot more sense when you realize "witch" is probably a mis-translation of "locust". My original point was that you seemed to be saying that because Russell grew up among one Christian sect, he was entitled to make sweeping statements about *all* Christians. If you DID mean that, I disagree. :-)