Richard Stanley
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Derek discusses problems with the Septuagint with Rabbi Tovia Singer. Singer knows the NT better than most Christians, even pastors. This is because he intimately knows the Hebrew of the OT, while the NT is generally claimed to be based upon the Greek Septuagint translation(s) from the original Hebrew. What happened is that the Septuagint(s) were bent to accommodate the 'prophetic' needs of the NT. As a result, one has to argue that 'God' wrongly informed the writing of the Hebrew OT for some reason, or decided to change the message for the NT's new revelation.
Such is how the basis of Christianity is just warmed over polytheistic paganism with the tarnished varnish of Judaism's monotheism. It is such problems which ultimately led the Protestant denominational 'liberal' churches to 'liberalize' and take a metaphorical approach, as there is no basis for literalist Xianity. Of course, Judaism had to undergo this process earlier, and this is why there are ultra-rationalist Jews, fundamentalists, and those like the Chassids which are yet of a supernaturalist leaning.
When one understands that all such religions, including Judaism, are formed for political expedience, then such literary machinations should not be suprising - except to their true believers.
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Such is how the basis of Christianity is just warmed over polytheistic paganism with the tarnished varnish of Judaism's monotheism. It is such problems which ultimately led the Protestant denominational 'liberal' churches to 'liberalize' and take a metaphorical approach, as there is no basis for literalist Xianity. Of course, Judaism had to undergo this process earlier, and this is why there are ultra-rationalist Jews, fundamentalists, and those like the Chassids which are yet of a supernaturalist leaning.
When one understands that all such religions, including Judaism, are formed for political expedience, then such literary machinations should not be suprising - except to their true believers.
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