paul's audience came to him. we go to ours. mostly. willing, ready or not. and i'm not talking about us bloggers. although i could. i speak of society, culture, humans. mainly in money-pumped lands, still . . .
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and, it seems all we do nowadays is entertain. questions and gossip. nothing is ever just as it is. which, paul clarified in the complex simplicity of his message. still, what about us - believing and not. for us, there is always some underlying motive. some covert deviance. some explicit insult. when things just are, we manage to make them other
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we don't have a paul. we not only have thousands of pauls, we've got just as many beliefs. ok, so. this is not a debate of beliefs. which has been the subject of debate in words and war since . . .
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goal: explore 'The 12 as of 2007' i don't plan foolery. though i am compelled to poke around
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so begins a 12-part series on the bible. specifically, each thursday. i am exploring a disciple and an apostle in reference to current time. the disciple and apostle are paired as announced in the bible. in doing, it is established that the order in which they are announced has meaning. and that meaning corresponds purpose between those announced third, let's just say for example, on the lists
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it's hard to know what to expect. i don't even know - it's in me and i got to get it out
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the fact that 'Inspired By . . .' is a project based on race. an audio production. by an all brown-skin cast. re-enacting the bible. is irrelevant. they are all famous. this, too, is irrelevant. simply because an all brown-skin cast of ordinary folk would have been just as pioneering, and tempting
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it is the subject. it is the story. and the stories. you don't think about who's talking or crying or screaming or stoning. hearing it is about the substance. and this project's creators knew this. credit is given. but no more than that. it isn't about the individuals. it is about the project
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and, in a time when hip hop/rap has its own ministry; when smoke parlor has its own ministry; when mega mass has its own ministry, why is this project overwhelming. it was done
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still, in the end, it is only a bible. and it has inspired
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Disciple ~ Apostle
Simon called Peter ~ Peter
Andrew ~ John
James ~ James
John ~ Andrew
Philip ~ Philip
Bartholomew ~ Thomas
Thomas ~ Bartholomew
Matthew the Tax Collector ~ Matthew
James ~ James
Thaddaeus ~ Simon the Zealot
Simon the Zealot ~ Judas son of James
Judas the Scariot ~ Matthias
On Disciples, could we spot a disciple today? not after hoop-lah. not after introductions. not from a list of pre-christened, but little knowns. from everyday people. children. men. women. carrying on as everyday people do. and in every life 'everyday' knows. what is it about disciples that connect them to jesus; to god. not as in them to jesus; god. but as in jesus; god to them to them to connect to jesus; god. during jesus' physical time. disciples lived before he became the 'jesus'. today, many of us live before knowing him as the 'jesus'. *and, please stay with me as i am leaving a lot to unspoken but truths-by-bible here. what are their details. not while functioning as a disciple. their details before disciple-ship became an option AND without disciple-ship being the plan. in other words, minus all disciple references. and, in what degree do their details matter. whatever it is, it isn't visible. it is a collective but overall of the individual. there is this aire about people such as these. an aire that occupies presence. an aire as the sole attribute. speech, walk, stillness, belief, among other attributes. each contributing a definite presence. presence that creates force. no matter how flesh close you get. you don't see it. you feel the intensity of it. it's not the posture of righteousness. nor is it humility. it's not a single descriptor. it's something - definite and able to be witnessed. we can spot a disciple today. by knowing without definitive explanation or force-fed antics that a disciple is among or within us.
On Bible translation, the history of bible translation began with necessity. people needed to read the bible in their own languages as the gospel spread to new lands. as familiarity with hebrew, aramaic, and koine greek declined, biblical translation into new languages occurred. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
early translations: it was in the fourteenth century that the bible was translated into english. latin was dominant in western church. the principal bible used in church was jerome's vulgate (completed in 405). sporadic attempts to translate parts of the bible into old english (before 1100) gave limited access to the bible for those who did not know latin well. venerable bede, a historian and scholar of the early middle ages, had concern that the less-educated clergy be equipped for service through translation of parts of the bible. he worked on a translation of the gospel of john, but death intervened in 735. no copies survived. modern translations: in the middle english period (ca. 1100-1550), john wycliffe, john purvey, and nicholas of hereford collaborated to produce the first complete bible in English. there were two editions of the wycliffe bible. both were translations of the latin text. the first edition was a literal translation from latin into english. the second edition, completed in 1396, circulated more widely. it focused on the meaning of sentences. wycliffe and his followers, "the lollards" suffered persecution as heretics as a result of this translation. 
in 1408, the constitutions of oxford included a prohibition against bible translation without approval of church authorities. by the sixteenth century, a number of events profoundly affected later bible translation. the renaissance caused a recovery of classical learning. greek scholars moved westward as constantinople fell to the turks (1453). the invention of the printing press around 1450 was a profound influence on bible translation. by 1488, there were printed editions of the hebrew Bible. the protestant reformation in 1517 emphasized vernacular versions. the break with rome during the tudor dynasty in england influenced the course of the english bible. current translations: william tyndale (1484-1536) was a greek scholar educated at oxford with a desire to provide a readable bible to the average person. he based his english new testament on a greek text established by erasmus in 1516. He printed it in europe in 1526 and revised it in 1534. myles coverdale produced the first complete english bible of the sixteenth century in 1535. subsequently in 1611, king james gave his blessing to a new translation, authorized version or king james bible. the later discoveries of the codex sinaiticus, early greek papyri of new testament documents, and the dead sea scrolls aided new translations we use today (new english bible, new international version, and the jerusalem bible).
information available at http://www.allabouttruth.org/history-of-bible-translation-faq.htm
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