A response to Ryantheyouthpastor, focusing on the contradiction between Matthew and Luke as to when Jesus was born and suggested ways of eliminating the contradiction.
Link to the commentary on the website of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops mentioned in the video:
The second part of my response to Ryantheyouthpastor, focusing on the contradiction between Matthew and Luke as to when Jesus was born and suggested ways of eliminating the contradiction.
The passage I read is:
Acts 9:3-8 (NIV)
3As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. 4He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
5"Who are you, Lord?" Saul asked. "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," he replied. 6"Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do."
7The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they heard the sound but did not see anyone. 8Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus.
Movies like gracie's choice? im looking for one in particular where the siblings react very badly to getting split up like in Gracie's choice, but they were much younger.
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I'll say it again, if christ was the son of god he did a really shitty job of saving all our souls.
The origins of the word church come from Circe, the witch of greek mythology, who lured twenty-two of Odysseus' crew into her palace and fed them drugged food, before turning them into pigs!
The new Webster’s international dictionary, 1909 edition, gives this definition of the word:
“Church (church), n. [ME. chirche, fr. AS. circe, fr. Gr. kyriakon the Lord's house, fr. kyriakos concerning a master or lord, fr. kyrios master, lord, fr. kyros power, authority; akin to Skr. gram mighty , bold Olr. caur, cur, hero. Cf. KIRK.] 1. A building set apart for public worship, esp… 2. A place of worship of any religion, as, formerly, a Jewish or pagan temple or a mosque. Acts six. 37.”
There were pagans using the word “church” long before Christians ever began using it. The word “church,” originating from the Greek word “kuriakon,” which later evolved into our pronunciation “church” in English. Let’s now look as some well noted bible dictionaries.
“Church: Derived probably from the Greek kuriakon (i.e., "the Lord's house"), which was used by ancient authors for the place of worship.” ( Easton's Bible Dictionary.)
“CHURCH: I. The word Church. — 1. The origin of the word is uncertain. In the Germanic and Slavonic languages it is found as follows: Anglo-Saxon, cyrica, circ, cyric; English, church; Scottish, kirk; German, kirche; Low-German, karke; Frisian, tzierke or tziurke; Danish, kyrke; Swedish, kyrka; Bohemian, cyrkew; Polish, cerkiew; Russian, zerkow.” (McClintock and Strong Encyclopedia.)
“CHURCH, 1. The derivation of the word is generally said to be from the Greek kuriakon ‘belonging to the Lord.’ But the derivation has been too hastily assumed. It is probably connected with kirk, the Latin circus, circulus, the Greek kuklos ( ku/klo$) because the congregations were gathered in circles.
The English word church is not a translation but rather is a transliteration of the Greek word kuriake.
2. Ecclesia ( e)kklesi/a) the Greek word for church, originally meant an assembly called out by the magistrate, or by legitimate authority. It was in this last sense that the word was adapted and applied by the writers of the New Testament to the Christian congregation.” (Smith's Bible Dictionary)
“CHURCH: From the Greek kuriakee, "house of the Lord," a word which passed to the Gothic tongue; the Goths being the first of the northern hordes converted to Christianity, adopted the word from the Greek Christians of Constantinople, and so it came to us Anglo-Saxons (Trench, Study of Words). But Lipsius, from circus, from whence kirk, a circle, because the oldest temples, as the Druid ones, were circular in form.”
(Fausset's Bible Dictionary)
The word "church" is known in Scotland as kirk, and in German as Kirche and in Netherlands as kerk. These words show their direct derivation from the Greek Kirke even better than the English "church". When you see the German word “kirche” from the Greek word Kuriakon, you can begin to pick up our English sounding word “church.” English has many words that have come from the German language. The words "kuriakon" and "ekklesia" are not synonymous by any stretch of the imagination and there is no justification of the use of “church” for ekklesia. Unless of course one has a built-in bias in shifting the meaning of the word from “the people” to “a building”. A building would more serve the purpose of a religious group with a built in hierarchy.
