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this is a good example of what I commented.

no one talked like that and that's not how it was written in the scripts but priests can use it to justify genocide and slavery so it's all good to the devout.

hodlbod 2y ago

Here's another one:

"Hearing you will hear and shall not understand,

And seeing you will see and not perceive;

For the hearts of this people have grown dull.

Their ears are hard of hearing,

And their eyes they have closed,

Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,

Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,

So that I should heal them."

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JoYo 2y ago

https://youtu.be/IbhQ4p-XQnE

JoYo 2y ago

> "...it's interesting to make the claim that this text is of divine origin but then in the very first sentence decide that all the literary attributes are completely irrelevant to the message."

hodlbod 2y ago

I don't think anyone's making the claim that we don't have to study the original language just because we have English translations. Except for KJV-only people 😏

JoYo 2y ago

I grew up Mormon, so KJV only plus fanfics.