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graduate work in new testament, knowledge of hebrew, greek, latin; interest in buddhism, also cross-cultural communications. not high pressure. but not agnostic either.

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2012-02-28 Workshops (John Mason):

The question of what economic system is recommended by the Bible is an important one, but I do not have the knowledge of history, and especially economic history and theory, that would permit me to answer

2011-12-07 help sire:

I looked up Cyprian in Wikipedia and he is listed as a writer in the Patrologia Latina, or "Latin Fathers' writings". That would mean that he wrote in Latin.   I think that such a person probably knew

2011-11-29 true please:

Thanks for your questions.   All the books of the New Testament were originally written in Greek. The earliest copies, from the first centuries, are for this reason all in Greek. Today, the New Testament

2011-11-16 more info:

I'm not sure "true or false" is the right question about Matthew 28.   F. W. Beare comments on Matthew 28:19 in his commentary on Matthew (Harper & Row, 1981), that "The triple formulation found here is

2011-11-13 greek and roman beliefs:

Cicero wrote a book about the gods, from which it is clear that not everyone believed in them. He doesn't seem to consider a person's degree of belief to be significant.    My studies have been in the

 

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