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Re: How old do you think the universe is?
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Originally Posted by good samaritan
This may be a dumb question, but how do the rabbi's know it? If it is a dead language that ceased to used how do people know it? The English translated Bible is the safest thing I have to go by. If the Hebrew word is used interchangeably throughout our Bible either the word is interchangeable or our Bible translation is wrong. I will take the KJV over a non believing Jewish Rabbi.
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A dead language is not a language no one knows any more. It means it is dead in that it is not changing and evolving because it is not actually in use any more except by scholars who study it and its texts. It can be learned with the assurance the words won't change meaning.
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"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
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