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[peter grimes]

^Love the little Biblical in-joke in that tweet.

Please explain?

 

[bhsup]

I assumed it was at the "I AM" part of the tweet. A play on God's reply to Moses when Moses asked him his name. "I am that I am."

 

[Antilogic]

That's all I picked up on, if there was something else it went over my head.

 

[Souron]

More religious forum goers would be welcome. However, they should be aware that a majority of OT posters are atheists, so they would be joining a community where most people disagree with them on those points. In some ways its healthy to expose yourself to the opposing view that way, but it can be exhausting or uninteresting to continually rebut the majority position.

I don't think flaming and trolling is a huge problem on CFC OT though. So they should be free of that at least.

 

[timtofly]

That's all I picked up on, if there was something else it went over my head.

The whole thing is basically Biblical. If one dropped the "a" adjectives. God is conservative, and Jesus was the ultimate communist providing from his ability to every one's need.

 

[Antilogic]

The whole thing is basically Biblical. If one dropped the "a" adjectives. God is conservative, and Jesus was the ultimate communist providing from his ability to every one's need.

I was talking about the Biblical in-joke Gori referenced, I got the direct meaning just fine.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Yeah, bhsup got what I was seeing in it: a reference to "I am that I am" in the all caps words.

 

[Kyriakos]

i am that i am

God sounds ******** in english...

 

[Formaldehyde]

More religious forum goers would be welcome. However, they should be aware that a majority of OT posters are atheists, so they would be joining a community where most people disagree with them on those points. In some ways its healthy to expose yourself to the opposing view that way, but it can be exhausting or uninteresting to continually rebut the majority position.

I bet they are going to want to excommunicate Adjuvant after they discover he is a Daily Show fan.

 

[peter grimes]

God sounds ******** in english...

How is it in Greek?

 

[Kyriakos]

How is it in Greek?

Mildly better, although given this is from the old testament the Greek text is not the original either:

Εγώ ειμί ο Ων

Which in general means "I am the one who Exists".

And it does have a rather dark tone, given that at least in this translation it would supposedly carry the significance of claiming god is the only thing which actually exists, and nothing else does; a bit like a human and any shadow generated of him. Maybe someone who knows the original text in hebrew can provide that also along with a meaning

 

[Traitorfish]

In my upcoming Bible translation, it's going to be "I AM that ROCKS", and then the next twenty pages are just going to be a guitar solo. As it should be.

 

[Snorrius]

I was thinking this Off-topic forum could use some more contributors! How would you guys like it if I brought up this forum to my church's bible study organization? Maybe not all would "stick around", but I bet I could coax 50 or so to be regular contributors, especially on topics about, or that become, atheism vs christian debate!

Well, I have not had my troll food for ages. But really, atheism vs christian debate is pretty bland and was talked over as much as Hitler. Let's discuss the necessity of universal suffrage's abolishment instead!

 

[timtofly]

Mildly better, although given this is from the old testament the Greek text is not the original either:



Which in general means "I am the one who Exists".

And it does have a rather dark tone, given that at least in this translation it would supposedly carry the significance of claiming god is the only thing which actually exists, and nothing else does; a bit like a human and any shadow generated of him. Maybe someone who knows the original text in hebrew can provide that also along with a meaning

It would seem to me that the Greeks were the one's with the existential crisis. Not that it is a bad thing. They were the ones who really sat down, or stood up, and put a lot of thought into it.

@ Traitorfish

God has yet to perform his Rock solo.

 

[Farm Boy]

Mildly better, although given this is from the old testament the Greek text is not the original either:



Which in general means "I am the one who Exists".

And it does have a rather dark tone, given that at least in this translation it would supposedly carry the significance of claiming god is the only thing which actually exists, and nothing else does; a bit like a human and any shadow generated of him. Maybe someone who knows the original text in hebrew can provide that also along with a meaning

Given that I AM is capitalized, and carries the connotation that this is God's name, near as a human can process it, it does carry a hint that I AM very well might be every single thing. And given that if God's name is I AM, and "Moses is" doesn't rate that capitalization, nor does anything else, you could read that subtext you are talking about into it. Though I'm not certain it would come off darkly unless you find God terrifying. Which, I suppose, you should. Far more terrifying than anything else at any rate. So maybe it's a bit dark after all.

 

[Dralix]

In my upcoming Bible translation, it's going to be "I AM that ROCKS", and then the next twenty pages are just going to be a guitar solo. As it should be.

In the Fleischer Studios version, it's I YAM that I YAM.

 

[Kyriakos]

FWIW "I am that Rocks" would create the difficult problem of heresies with the central theological position that god was one and the same with a plural of Peter (since Peter, Petros in the original Greek, is pretty much the same term as Petra, ie rock).

Which wouldn't be the first time the judaic god would have multiple personalities (Babel).

 

[Traitorfish]

It could be spelled "RAWK", if that's any good to you.

 

[Kyriakos]

It could be spelled "RAWK", if that's any good to you.

No, sorry. Your proposition for creating a god is hereby denied

 

[Traitorfish]

Damn. The moral and spiritual oblivion of godless heathenry it is for me, then.