... legislation protecting gays should be removed and most certainly are against the idea of gay clergymen. Liberal Christians on the other hand take another view. Firstly there are differences in translation. According to the King James Version the mob surrounding Lot's house said "bring them out unto us, so that we may know them-. The Hebrew word Ya,da', is the ... see The Bible as inerrant but as a collection of historical documents written by authors who like all human beings make mistakes. The fact that meaning may have been altered through translation also impacts their interpretation...

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... Testament. Since Sheol in the Old Testament times refered simply to the abode of the dead and suggested no moral distinctions, the word 'hell,' as understood today, is not a happy translation." The meaning given today to the word "hell" is that portrayed in Dante's Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost, which meaning is completely foreign to the original definition of the ... ...

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A Response to Seamus Heaney's Translation of "Beowulf" The praised epic poem "Beowulf" is the first great epic poem in English literature. The poem opens with a genealogy of the ruling Danes beginning with Shield, moving to ... ...

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