Arch Angel

[William GBTW]

Where are you from anyway?

You haven't figured it out yet Texas.

 

[Goldflash]

..Stormy isn't from the States...

 

[William GBTW]

I was refreeing to WildWeazal about hte Baptist and yes Stormrage is from somewhere in the Former Jugoslavia; I think Croatia or maybe the Croat areas of Bosnia.

 

[Stormrage]

I am sooo from the States! Just not your states!

Yeah, I`m from Croatia. We are catholics, but I`m one quarter orthodox, with a personal interest in judaism and buddhism So, Shiro, the unit looks great, no matter what in what directions the cross goes

 

[William GBTW]

So Croats=Catholic
Serbs=Equal Orthodox
Muslim (aka Bosniak)=Muslim

 

[Steph]

We say "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spririt".
Ghost = the thing that is supposed to haunt Scottish Castles.
And it's done up, bottom, left right, but I learned it the other way.
When I was young and had some religious teaching, the priest , as he was facing us, was doing it on purpose on the wrong way, so we could learn to do it as if looking in a mirror...
But I was the only one who was alreadly correctly lateralized, so I did it exactly as he did, on the wrong side.

 

[Bungus]

Actually, we just say whatever we feel like saying. Not that it matters anyway, people can use whatever sound effects they want.

I make rocket-ship noises.

Count down to blasphemy..

 

[Stormrage]

I used to do it the Orthodox way, cos my parents aren`t religious, so I learned it by myself. And I`m lefthanded. Yes, I`m a sinister bastard

 

[Plotinus]

The Doxology is the text that always gets appended to the Psalms when they are sung, namely, "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen." I've never heard anyone say that whilst crossing themselves, apart from people who cross themselves when it is sung. And plenty of Anglicans cross themselves too.

I think this is a splendid unit. Very nicely animated!

 

[William GBTW]

Yeah I know...I don't have it memorized cuase I'm mormon and we don't do that stuff and will was just an idea...good unit!

 

[Samez]

Ahmm so if the angel is speaking perhaps make him speak latin. (something like: in nomine patres et filii et spiriti sancti) (well my grammer is probably wrong )
thats what might be better for catholics don't know how it's about the greaco/orthodox church, but latin is the language of the church....

 

[ShiroKobbure]

shouldnt he speak hebrew? ^ ^;;
Hebrew was the language god gave to isreal right?

 

[Samez]

hes but hwo of us is able to get out one sentence in good old hebrewish? Latin there is at least some relation to the english language but hebrewish well but perhaps your right, but on the other hand a simpel "amen" will work better because it's the same in all languages.... on the other hand it5's somehow a kind of blasphemy to finish a fight like praying to god....

 

[William GBTW]

God speaks in all langauges. He was aramaic that he spoke as well as Greek.

 

[ShiroKobbure]

i dont think greek is ever in the bible until after jesus, and probably 100 years after. And latin is much later

 

[William GBTW]

But Greek was spoken by the some of the apostles.

 

[Plotinus]

The New Testament is written in Greek. Jesus would probably have taught in Aramaic, but it is possible that he spoke Greek too. Paul would have taught in Greek. Christians even in the western (Latin-speaking) half of the empire typically spoke Greek until the end of the second century.

Although I don't really see what this has to do with anything...

 

[ShiroKobbure]

i was just curious
I didnt think the jews of jesus time spoke greek. And none of the new testament was written in jesus time.
Also is Aramaic early Hebrew? Or did Jews speak both?

 

[Plotinus]

Aramaic is a semitic language - or, technically, a whole family of related languages, rather like the different dialects of Chinese. Various forms of it were spoken throughout the Middle East from early antiquity onwards, and some are still spoken today. Parts of the Old Testament were written in one form of it, although most of the OT was of course written in Hebrew. Several different dialects made up the everyday language of Palestine in Jesus' day. Hebrew, a largely unrelated language spoken by the Jews, was also still spoken at this time, and would continue to be spoken in Palestine for another couple of centuries before largely dying out other than as a literary language (the Hebrew spoken in Israel today is a modern resuscitation of the language). But no-one knows exactly what roles Hebrew and Aramaic played during this period, especially given the extra complication of Greek, the official Roman language, which was extensively spoken in the cities. It would not have been uncommon for a Palestinian Jew in Jesus' day to speak Greek, although obviously the more educated you were and the bigger the city you lived in, the more likely you were to speak it. The variant of Aramaic called Syriac - which was spoken in Edessa, the first officially Christian city - became the standard language of Christianity in the Middle East for centuries.

 

[Celtic Prince]

I don't know about all that, but is there any way we could get this guy with a bow. I need an Angelic archer.