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Shlama Akhi Shmuel, ">Dear Akhi Paul: >I asked Askme .com for a >question concerning the Peshitta being >the original New Testament, and >they gave me two very >negative answers. One said that >the Peshitta depends too much >upon the Greek and the >dialect of the Peshitta is >diferent from that of Maran >Eshoa."
Well, there's 2 different questions you need to ask them there - see if you get a response to these questions, because I have a suspicion that the person you asked cannot even read Aramaic: 1 - Exactly HOW does the Peshitta depend on the Greek? 2 - Exactly HOW does the Aramaic dialect of the Peshitta differ from the Aramaic dialect of Maran Eshoa? Remember, when you ask the "expert" this question, ask for *specifics*. Then, ask if he/she would like to debate me publicly on the issues. Anytime, Anywhere. See what responses you get to these questions.  ">The other said that >I need no help from >you crtizing you without even >knowing you."
That's fine - he/she could criticize all they want. I'm glad when my work gets that much attention. When what I'm doing generates this much hatred (as you have seen during the past 2 weeks), I know I am doing something right.  In the meantime, I will continue to do what I am doing, finish this translation - I will discharge my duty - what I do after that will be very interesting. I plan on going after these pseudo-experts (armed with the entire translation), and destroy their arguments one by one. ">I am disgusted >with this pseudo intelectional Western >Church properganda, they do not >even know what they are >talking about."
Me too. That's why I started this work, and that's why I'm going to complete it (God willing). Hey, do me a favor. Ask the "expert" to tell you about the Pythogorean Theorum (a2 + b2 = c2). Ask him/her who invented it. ">As from now >on I am leaving the >Church Forever untill the Churches >come to their senses and >admit the truth. Why should >I as a Jewish believer >in Meshikha Eshoa have anything >to do with the Western >Church and their anti-semetic remarks?"
Leaving the "Church" is a bad idea. Your forefathers started the Church, and the Jewish Messiah is the object of worship in (most) of it. If a particular denomination has an anti-Semitic attitude - then they are not really Christians at all. Anti-Semitic means Anti-Semitic-Messiah, it's just as simple as that. Has the Western Church been thoroughly Hellenized? Sure they have. Has Western Civilization credited the Greeks with almost everything - while they invented almost nothing? Sure. Are there any Churches which have not been taken over by Hellenization? Sure there are. If you would feel more comfortable worshipping God in a Semitic atmosphere - there are choices available to you. I feel more comfortable in my Church than I would anywhere else. But, you will be attacked - always expect that. 2000 years we have been attacked, and it has not let up even today. We live in a Muslim-dominated Middle East, and a Hellenized Western Christian Church. There's not much room there for the likes of me. As for myself, as I said, as unpopular as this is going to be for the "experts" - I'm determined to finish this work. I will be attacked, ridiculed and harassed (as all have witnessed) by almost everyone. In the end, I have my people - and my people have me. We have survived for t
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