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Peri Level 3 Member Points: 4700 Send Message Add to Friends Block Member Invite to Group Report this User Navigation My Profile Journal Photos Videos Calendar View Calendar Upcoming Events Friends Groups Advertisement	All Member Name: Translating God's Word Category: Science & Religion Status: Member Description: What do you look for in a Bible translation? Basically, there are two types: a literal (word for word) rendition and a dynamic equivalent (paraphrase or idiomatic). The first clings as closely as possible to the original language, that is, as much as idioms and word choice will allow. In contrast, the paraphrase is a “free” translation in which the translator seeks to express the original writer’s thoughts as he may interpret them rather than the exact words used in the text. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… This group’s primary concern is using good translations as well as using a variety of English translations. However, our discussions can cover any area that is Bible related and, or related to Bible study and research. Our two group texts are Proverbs 2:1-6 and John 17:3. Here are some of the areas of interest for this group. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. • Hermeneutics • History of Judaism • Textual Criticism • Bible Translation • Biblical Greek • Biblical Hebrew • Semantics • Exegesis • Doctrines • Archaeology • Bible Chronology • Theology • Inductive Bible Study • History of Christianity • History of Religion • How the Bible Came Down To Us • Customs and Culture • Study of Bible (Chapter by Chapter) ……………………………………………………………………………………………… This list is not exhaustive, but it should give you some ideas. If anyone disagrees with another, simply quote the person and give your logical reason as to why. Then site a web address or a source, which may be a very good one, also, it may be very informative, but it is up to you to read it and find out how the previous poster is not quite right and explain it to the rest of us. At the end of your explanation you may site that website as your source. …………………………………………………………………………………………….. There are enough hate boards out there tearing the throats of others out in the name of God ironically. That is not the case here. We are going to be Christlike and respect each other. We will pick the kindest of words when we disagree. Like: “I can appreciate where you are coming from, but I feel this…….. is the real reason for this….., do you see what I mean? The other may come back: “Yes, I see how you are getting where you are, but I must respectfully disagree because…. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… Our goal is to do good research, keep digging and show loving kindness to others in the process. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. Your friend, Apologist Name: Guardian Angels Category: Angels Status: Member Description: The full purpose of members of this group, besides visiting others pages and making persons day by doing random acts of kindness-ie.posting nice comments on a journal, email or blog when you see the need is that we members can also share-exchange the results of these as a group, perhaps even offering eachother helpful suggestions. That is the purpose of this group and also to be open to any and all wonderful results of the same. Name: Celtic Community Church of Yahweh Category: Christian Group Status: Member Description: Group of members and visitors to learn about The Celtic Community Church of Yahweh, what celtic messianic christianity is, and what the Bible actually teaches instead of denominational traditions. We strive to teach and live the uncompromising word of God. Name: The Final Freedoms Category: Christian Group Status: Member Description: The first wholly new interpretation for 2000 years of the moral teachings of Christ is on the web. It redefines the central element of the Resurrection and focuses specifically on marriage, Love and human sexuality, overturning all natural law ethics and theory. At stake is the credibility of several thousand years of religious history and moral teaching, and will certainly impact other fields of intellectual inquiry. What first appears a counter intuitive and utterly preposterous challenge to the religious status quo rewards closer examination, for it carries within its pages ideas both subtle and sublime, what the theological history of religion either ignored, were unable to imagine or dismissed as impossible. An error of presumption which could now leave 'tradition' staring into the abyss and humble the heights of secular, scientific speculation. This new teaching has nothing whatsoever to do with any existing religious conception known to history. It is unique in every respect. What science and religion have agreed was not possible, has now become an all too probable. It is often stated that extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence and rightly so. Here then is the first ever viable religious conception capable of leading reason, by faith, to observable consequences which can be tested and judged. This new teaching delivers the first ever religious claim of insight into the human condition, that meets the Enlightenment criteria of verifiable, evidence based truth embodied in action. For the first time in history, a moral tenet exists, offering access by faith, to absolute proof for its belief. Using a synthesis of scriptural material from the Old and New Testaments, the Apocrypha , The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Nag Hammadi Library, and some of the worlds great poetry, it describes and teaches a single moral LAW, a single moral principle offering the promise of its own proof; one in which the reality of God responds to an act of perfect faith with a direct, individual intervention into the natural world; correcting human nature by a change in natural law, altering biology, consciousness and human ethical perception beyond all natural evolutionary boundaries. Intended to be understood metaphorically, where 'death' is ignorance and 'LIfe' is knowledge, this experience, personal encounter and liberation by transcendent power and moral purpose is the 'Resurrection' ,the justification of faith and foundation of righteousness. This is 'religion' without any of the coventional trappings of tradition. An individual, applied virtue-ethical conception all in a single command, this new interpretation defines the moral foundation of all human conduct and the single Law finds expression within a new covenant of marriage. It requires no institutional framework or hierarchy, no churches or priest craft, no scholastic theological rational, dogma or doctrine and ‘worship’ requires only conviction, faith and the necessary measure of self discipline to accomplish a new, single moral imperative and the integrity and fidelity to the new reality. If this material is confirmed and there appears to be both the means and a growing, concerted effort to test and authenticate it, the greatest unresolved questions of human existence: consciousness, meaning, suffering and evil may finally have been untangled. Colloquial evidence from discussion forums suggest confirmations have already taken place and are increasing. Trials of this new teaching are under way in several countries. For those individuals who can set their sights and measure progress above the existing political status quo, who are able to think for themselves and imagine outside the historical cultural box, who are willing to learn something new and stand against the stream of fashionable thought and spin, an intellectual and moral revolution has already started with the most potent Non Violent Direct Action any human being can take for peace, justice, change and progress. Name: Know your Guardian Angel Status: Member Description: My Mission from the creator and protectors of all our universe I am here to make myself available to those of pure heart and those who blinded by the wicked and deceitful, live each day in judgement of others, greed, selfishness, intimidation, cause pain, hurt, worship money, ignore calls of help, destroy lives and nature, It is written: ……And in his creation on a higher vibration plane he formed the Archangels and Angels and did show them their mission which was to ensure ‘Free Will’ to all souls, to ensure there was no intervention on the creator’s plans for each unique soul. The Archangels delegated Angels to every soul whether that protected soul had faith or not. To be beside that soul awaiting to be asked to intervene by that Angel’s chosen one, in times of need unless it be God’s plan as afore…ARCHANGEL MICHAEL placed over 444,000,000 Angels to intervene in biblical times..The 1st Chapter…Then again in the 2nd chapter in what the Earth called middle ages. Now is the beginning of the 3rd Chapter of Angel Intervention..444,000,000 Earth Angels are here ready to call millions more as God has decreed mankind needs to develop away from his ways of greed and self-destruction of the goodness that he planted like a seed in every soul’s heart. Descended from Archangel Michael, Earth Angel Ian has been given the keys of knowledge, understanding and enlightenment by inner wisdom….discover if your ways of free will in this life exempt you from the destination of pure souls when the final victory of Good over Evil takes place…Discover the tools you need……to find and talk with your own Angel/s Contact: website: www.earth-angel.info IANYourangels@aol.com Angels,Angel Therapy,holistic,spiritual,ascended ones,messages,God, Goddess, Mary Magdelene, Holy Grail, Archangels,EFT,EmoTrance,meditation,Celtic,healing, spiritual healing,mental illness,debates,Aura,Chakra,Thin Veil,Avalon,St Joseph of Arithmea,Glastonbury,Lindisfarne,Holy,temple,scrolls, Chalice,jesus I love connecting people to their Angels and the sudden realisation in their faces they have been given the BIGGEST truth of all! Name: who i am Status: Member Description: Michael (archangel) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search .. --> start content --> "Saint Michael" redirects here. For other uses, see Saint Michael (disambiguation). Guido Reni's archangel Michael (in the Capuchin church of Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome) tramples Satan. Michael (Hebrew: ??????, Micha'el or Mîkha'el; Greek: ???a??, Mikhaíl; Latin: Michael or Míchaël; Arabic: ????????, Mikha'il) is an archangel, one of the principal angels in Jewish and Christian tradition. He is viewed as the good Angel of Death (as opposed to Samael, the evil Angel of Death), and as the field commander of the Army of God. He is mentioned by name in the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation 12:7. In the book of Daniel, Michael appears as "one of the chief princes" (Daniel 10:13) who in Daniel's vision comes to the angel Gabriel's aid in his contest with the angel of Persia Dobiel, and is also described there as the advocate of Israel and "great prince who stands up for the children of your (Daniel's) people" (Daniel 10:21, 12:1). The Talmudic tradition rendered his name as meaning "who is like El (God)". The name was said to have been the war-cry of the angels in the battle fought in heaven against Satan and his followers. Much of the late Midrashic detail about Michael was transmitted to Christianity through the Book of Enoch, whence it was taken up and further elaborated. In late medieval Christianity, Michael, together with St George, became the patron saint of chivalry, and of the first chivalric order of France, the Order of Saint Michael of 1469. In the British honours system, a chivalric order founded in 1818 is also named for these two saints, the Order of St Michael and St George. St Michael is also considered in many Christian circles as the patron saint of the warrior. Police officers and soldiers, particularly paratroopers, regard him as their patron saint. He is also a patron of England, Germany[1] and one of the patron saints of the city of Brussels[2], Belgium. Roman Catholics refer to him as "Saint Michael the Archangel" and also simply as "Saint Michael". Orthodox Christians refer to him as the "Taxiarch Archangel Michael" or simply "Archangel Michael". ..TR> Contents [hide] 1 Old Testament 1.1 Book of Joshua 1.2 Book of Daniel 2 Hebrew apocrypha 2.1 War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness 2.2 Book of Enoch 3 Jewish tradition 3.1 Rabbinic traditions 3.2 Kabbalistic traditions 4 Christian tradition 4.1 Canonical New Testament 4.2 Christian legend 4.2.1 Latter-Day Saints theology 4.2.2 Jehovah's Witness belief 4.3 Shrines 5 Islam 6 Bahá'í 7 The Urantia Book 8 Anthroposophy and the occult 9 Literature and popular culture 9.1 Comics 9.2 Film and Television 10 See also 11 Bibliography 12 References 13 External links ..TABLE> .. type=text/javascript> //..[CDATA[ if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } //]]> ..> [edit] 1 Old Testament [edit] 1.1 Book of Joshua The main icon of the Archangel Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin (ca. 1410s). The numinous "captain of the host of the Lord" encountered by Joshua in the early days of his campaigns in the Promised Land (Joshua 5:13-15) has the character of Michael the Archangel, as the unnamed heavenly messenger is of supernatural and holy origin, likely sent by God: Once when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing before him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, 'Are you one of us, or one of our adversaries?' He replied, 'Neither; but as commander of the army of the LORD I have now come.' And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshipped, and he said to him, 'What do you command your servant, my lord?' The commander of the army of the LORD said to Joshua, 'Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy.' And Joshua did so. (Joshua 5:13–15, NRSV) There is some controversy about this passage, however. An orthodox Christian interpretation would be that this person is the pre-Incarnate Christ. In other places in the Bible, angels do not accept the worship of humans (see Rev. 22:9 for an example); the willingness of this person to accept Joshua's worship implies that he was divine. However, it is not clear whether the angel was the subject of Joshua's worship or merely instigated worship of God. [edit] 1.2 Book of Daniel The prophet Daniel experiences a vision after having undergone a period of fasting. In the vision, an angel identifies Michael as the protector of Israel (10:13, 21). Later in the vision (12:1), Daniel is informed that Michael will stand for Israel during the tribulation to come. There is no further mention of Michael in the Hebrew Bible. [edit] 2 Hebrew apocrypha [edit] 2.1 War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness In the War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, Michael is described as the prince of light, leading forces of good against the darkness of evil, who is led by Belial. He is described as the "viceroy of heaven", a title that is said to have formerly belonged to Satan. [edit] 2.2 Book of Enoch Michael is designated in the Book of Enoch, as "the prince of Israel" and the "archistratege" of God. He is the angel of forbearance and mercy (Enoch, xl:3) who taught Enoch the mysteries of clemency and justice (lxxi:2). In the book of Jubilees (i:27 and ii:1), the angel who is said to have instructed Moses on Mount Sinai and to have delivered to him the tables of the Law is most probably Michael. [edit] 3 Jewish tradition [edit] 3.1 Rabbinic traditions According to rabbinic Jewish tradition, Michael acted as the advocate of Israel, and sometimes had to fight with the princes of the other nations (cf. Daniel 10:13) and particularly with the angel Samael, Israel's accuser. Michael's enmity with Samael dates from the time when the latter was thrown down from heaven. Samael took hold of the wings of Michael, whom he wished to bring down with him in his fall; but Michael was saved by God (Midrash Pirke R. El. xxvi.). The rabbis declare that Michael entered upon his role of defender at the time of the biblical patriarchs. Thus, according to Rabbi Eliezer ben Jacob, it was Michael who rescued Abraham from the furnace into which he had been thrown by Nimrod (Midrash Genesis Rabbah xliv. 16). It was Michael, the "one that had escaped" (Genesis 14:13), who told Abraham that Lot had been taken captive (Midrash Pirke R. El.), and who protected Sarah from being defiled by Abimelech. He announced to Sarah that she would bear a son and he rescued Lot at the destruction of Sodom (Talmud B. M. 86b). It is said that Michael prevented Isaac from being sacrificed by his father by substituting a ram in his place, and saved Jacob, while yet in his mother's womb, from being killed by Samael (Midr. Abkir, in Yal?., Gen. 110). Later Michael prevented Laban from harming Jacob (Pirke R. El. xxxvi.). According to one source, it was Michael who wrestled with Jacob and who afterward blessed him (Targum pseudo-Jonathan to Genesis xxxii. 25; Pirke R. El. xxxvii.). The midrash Exodus Rabbah holds that Michael exercised his function of advocate of Israel at the time of the Exodus also, when Satan (as an adversary) accused the Israelites of idolatry and declared that they were consequently d Name: Interfaith Perspectives Status: Member Description: This is an interfaith group who's members are from different spiritual paths and who share their perspectives on various religious topics. Proselytizers need not apply (our first rule) -- there is a difference between sharing your faith's perspective and trying to convince another participant to switch to your faith. At the same time, the emphasis is on discussing what you do believe and / or practice, not on what you don't believe, as we are not a debate group (we are not into wrong making, and this is our second rule.) Our third rule is to share page space in the discussion threads, to allow others to participate, the same way it is done with in-person group discussions. Name: Intuition Category: General Discussion Status: Member Description: This group is for sharing ideas about this most valuable resource.