OT: Re: Rigidies(??)

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When I was a kid, I was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. I was an acolyte and sang in the choir. I loved reading the Bible and hearing our old Pastor preach. My faith was, and is, a very solemn thing to me. Somewhere along the line, I was given a text called "Good news for modern man" which was a re-interpretation of the new testament. I was very upset when I read it. How could anyone dare to try to take the Word of God and make their own interpretation? I asked the Pastor about this and he told me that the King version that I was used to was translated from texts translated from Hebrew and Greek. I later found out that Jesus spoke Aramaic and that books of the New Testament may not have been written until many, many years after Jesus' ministry. What a blow to find out that the Word of God that I was brought up with was a translation, and therefore someones interpretation, of books written in Greek and Hebrew which were another persons interpretation of (in the case of the New Testament) books written in Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke.

My 2 silver coins worth.....

Rod , DC

Re: Rigidies(??)

Hi Rich,

The wonderful thing about all of the Holy Books of the world's religions is that they work in so many ways for so many people. The challenge we face is finding the commonality in the leavening they have brought to all of humanity. If we continue to insist that the religious experiences of believers in other faith traditions are inferior to our own, then we miss the foundational unifying nature of them all. As we think, so do we become: we each get to face this challenge. Nobody gets to tell another what the other believes. My point in the original post was to show that the Aramaic translation may have been consistent with earlier religious writings (from Hinduism and Buddhism) about the innate healing powers of Nature as it relates to one's own body and it's functioning. The more we, as chiropractors, know about innate self-healing, the better for everyone, imho.

Best to you.

Sears, DC

NW PDX

On Nov 9, 2007, at 6:09 AM, Rich Layman wrote:

You put on a good show, Dr Spears, thank you for an entertaining look at your perspective on religions. Of course I can’t comment on eastern religions but I can comment on your perspective on Christianity and must say, I wonder if you have ever read the bible. Have you at least read the book of in the New Testament? If you had you would know that Christianity is all about the individual who falls short in a life of sin and the need for a redeeming Savior, Jesus Christ. Nothing about the "social nature of humanity" as you suggest. Yes, we are to love our fellow man as ourselves but that is not the focus of what Christianity is all about. Incidentally, Jesus was not a prophet but the prophesized Messiah foretold in the Old Testament. Have you read the book of Isaiah? And, blessed are the meek, doesn’t have anything to do with "inner tensions in the bodies". The bible specifically refers to meek as being submissive and obedient to God, in full humility. To clarify, it is not being proud, rebellious, independent spirit, of the person who seeks his or her own way. I find no correlation to "rigidities within". I’m sure glad you are not a physical therapist telling me what I believe about chiropractic.

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