Introductio

[Sapientia]

Γεια σας! Υποθέτω ότι είμαι να συστηθώ. Είμαι Χριστιανός του Μελχίτες Ελληνική Καθολική Εκκλησία. Φόρουμ σας φαίνεται αρκετά ενδιαφέρον. Έλαβα το διδακτορικό μου στη Φιλοσοφία από την Οξφόρδη.

[Mary Etheldreda]

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Welcome to our forums, dear. By the way, we speak American here. I'm sure you know that as your posts up to this point were perfectly readable. I'll take the time to translate this one for your convenience. Please don't do this again.

Hello! I suppose I am to myself. I am a Pretend Christian of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. Your forum looks pretty interesting. I received my PhD in Philosophy from Oxford.

So tell us dear, when did you decide it would be your life's mission to hate and mock the Sweet Infant Jesus and instead embrace Satan's Biggest Lies?

[Sapientia]

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Γεια σας! Υποθέτω ότι είμαι να συστηθώ. Είμαι Χριστιανός του Μελχίτες Ελληνική Καθολική Εκκλησία. Φόρουμ σας φαίνεται αρκετά ενδιαφέρον. Έλαβα το διδακτορικό μου στη Φιλοσοφία από την Οξφόρδη.

I apologize for the confusion. I wrote a brief introduction is Koine Greek and thought it would be appreciated. I shall translate it.

Hello! I suppose I am to introduce myself. I am a Christian of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. Your forum seems rather interesting. I received my doctorate in Philosophy from Oxford.

[Jim Farmer]

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So you're in Syria? I thought ISIS would have got you by now.

[Sapientia]

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Welcome to our forums, dear. By the way, we speak American here. I'm sure you know that as your posts up to this point were perfectly readable. I'll take the time to translate this one for your convenience. Please don't do this again.




So tell us dear, when did you decide it would be your life's mission to hate and mock the Sweet Infant Jesus and instead embrace Satan's Biggest Lies?

I do apologize. I am somewhat of a scholar and thought a bit of banter in Koine Greek would get some discussion going. I speak four living languages: English, Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic. Of the sundry dead languages I "speak", I think it is up to ten now that I finished studying Sumarian. Again, I do apologize for the confusion.

It is you who say so. But if you want to know when I converted, it was when I was at Oxford. Previously, I had been a Jewish Rabbi.

[Sapientia]

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The video perhaps expresses me best though I am not THAT good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x2SvqhfevE

[Sapientia]

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So you're in Syria? I thought ISIS would have got you by now.

Alas no. A friend of mine just got back. We studied together in Jerusalem back in the day. There are still parts where people can be safe.

[Mary Etheldreda]

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I do apologize. I am somewhat of a scholar and thought a bit of banter in Koine Greek would get some discussion going. I speak four living languages: English, Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic. Of the sundry dead languages I "speak", I think it is up to ten now that I finished studying Sumarian. Again, I do apologize for the confusion.

It is you who say so. But if you want to know when I converted, it was when I was at Oxford. Previously, I had been a Jewish Rabbi.

Well thank you for showing us all just how much more special you are than me, a humble woman who only speaks the one language. We'll not get into the fact that Hebrew is a foul sounding thing that makes people's gag reflexes act up, or the Arabic is the language of the child-bride trade. Yes, I was confused. I'm a simpleton like that, what with expecting an introduction on an American forum to be in the language everyone here speaks.

So you decided to put away your Jewish ways to embrace Christ, only you were fooled into thinking Christ was a sodomite supporting cracker hopping icon? Not such a smart guy after all.

That was a joke, by the way. We simple people do that from time to time. Joke, I mean. It's called "humor."

Anyway, have you ever tried reading the Holy Bible? The real one, I mean? You'll learn all about the Real Jesus Christ.

[Sapientia]

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Well thank you for showing us all just how much more special you are than me, a humble woman who only speaks the one language. We'll not get into the fact that Hebrew is a foul sounding thing that makes people's gag reflexes act up, or the Arabic is the language of the child-bride trade. Yes, I was confused. I'm a simpleton like that, what with expecting an introduction on an American forum to be in the language everyone here speaks.

So you decided to put away your Jewish ways to embrace Christ, only you were fooled into thinking Christ was a sodomite supporting cracker hopping icon? Not such a smart guy after all.

That was a joke, by the way. We simple people do that from time to time. Joke, I mean. It's called "humor."

Anyway, have you ever tried reading the Holy Bible? The real one, I mean? You'll learn all about the Real Jesus Christ.

Oh, no I meant no offense. I thought this was for introductions. It is typical, I think, when making introductions, to give a bit of background.

Well, it was my fathers decision to teach me Hebrew. That was how I first read the Old Testament: in the language Christ himself spoke and read. Arabic I learned out of necessity.

Really? I missed the punch line.

[Mary Etheldreda]

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Really? I missed the punch line.

That Orthodox believe Jesus hops from cracker to cracker so they can eat him.

[Sapientia]

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That Orthodox believe Jesus hops from cracker to cracker so they can eat him.

The Orthodox Churches? They use entire loaves, much like us in the Eastern Catholic Churches but unlike the thinner hosts of the Roman Rite. Their theology is much like ours, that it is an ineffable mystery how bread and wine can truly become the Body and Blood of Christ.

[Mary Etheldreda]

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it is an ineffable mystery how bread and wine can truly become the Body and Blood of Christ.

It's not a mystery, dear. It's Imagination.

[Sapientia]

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It's not a mystery, dear. It's Imagination.

It is you who say so.

[Jim Farmer]

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it is an ineffable mystery how bread and wine can truly become the Body and Blood of Christ.

It's a hoax sweetie. If it really were the body and blood of Jesus, do you really think He'd appreciate all those mary-worshippers munching on Him every week? Do you think it's cannibalism?
And what part of Him are you eating? A hand, a foot, a nose, an ear lobe? I know which part all those homersexurals they welcome wish they were eating!

[Sapientia]

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It's a hoax sweetie. If it really were the body of blood of Jesus, do you really think He'd appreciate all those mary-worshippers munching on Him every week? Do you think it's cannibalism?

"Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you." John 6:53

Not much room for interpretation but I am willing you discuss your argument.