[On modern American spelling in bibles]
Now the very worst of this battle of o-u-r vs. o-r comes when dealing with the only begotten Son of God, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The modern day counterfeiters have changed Saviour to Savior. They have given us a six-letter Savior in place of a seven-letter Saviour. In Bible numerics seven is the number of completeness, purity, and spiritual perfection. On the other hand six is the number of man which is earthly not heavenly. Every one has heard of 666. It has a bad connotation and is not highly esteemed in Bible numerics.
The seven-letter Saviour is the only begotten Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. The six-letter Savior is the son of perdition, the anti christ. He wants to be like the most High (Isaiah 14:14,) but not in a good way, but in an evil way. He is not a follower. He’s a counterfeiter. Therefore his final destination is the lake of fire. The new versions, along with the new age movement, and some of the King James Bible counterfeits are preparing the way for this six-letter so called Savior. That’s the way he will spell his name, S-a-v-i-o-r not S-a-v-i-o-u-r. No thank you Satan. I’m sticking with the seven-letter Saviour as portrayed in the old black Book that I inherited from my forefathers.
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*facepalm*
At least complain just because the spelling is wrong, not because of all the gibberish you're spouting there!
Either way is different from the original Greek anyway.
@#849758
I think you mean 'OH NOES OMGWTFBBQBACONCHEEZ!!!!111ONe123$'
It's still an utterly ridiculous protest against updated spelling, and a prime example of religion's resistance to change. That might be why fundies hate Obama so much: he brings change, or as they spell it, CHANGE!!!OMG!!.
"That’s the way he will spell his name, S-a-v-i-o-r not S-a-v-i-o-u-r. "
I thought his name was Jesus?
Lol, British spelling is Godly, America spelling, of the devil.
I always suspected this myself, nothing fundie here :).
Color is also evil. Honor, invented by Satan to subvert the virtue implicit in it's meaning.
Numerology rules.
We have wars, famines, droughts, floods, violent crimes, etc., in the world and he's worried about spelling?
And who uses phrases like "son of perdition" in 2008?
What a wanker!
Being British, I do prefer "saviour" to "savior". But that's nothing to do with having seven letters instead of six. I don't know how many letters there were in the word for "saviour" in the original language, which was not English.
Oh, I dunno. Maybe US spellings are of the devil. :P
As an Englishman, I have to say that proper spelling is the only thing I'm in complete agreement with this fundy (for once!). Otherwise, he's talking complete arse (as do ALL fundies!).
ColoUr
FavoUr
HonoUr
FlavoUr
SavioUr
American Spelling? NO U.
> On the other hand six is the number of man which is earthly not heavenly.
Let's see... F-A-T-H-E-R... d'oh!
EDIT: Heaveun, Fatheur (okay, that sounds French), Angeuls (why do I always get lost in Lost Angeuls?)... hmm...
what about 1010011010? (that's 666 in binary). is that evil? it can't be because there are only 5 1s and 5 0s.
how about 29a? (that's hexadecimal for 666)...
how about 1232? that's octal....
basically 666 is just a number under the decimal system that someone picked for some random reason, and then drew conclusions from. I can do that too:
Let 3 = 4.
Now I drive a 2669.33 Acura RSX, I'm almost 30, i have 13.3 fingers and toes.
Oh, and you ALMOST have half a brain.
See? I made correct assumptions based on a false premise.
Fine, bro, when do you teach your sheeple how to spell real-life English?
Wasn't the original "soter" or some such?
KJV only fundies really make me laugh. I think they're convinced that illiterate 1st century Middle Easterners spoke 16th century English. And now they're arguing about the spelling? From what I've seen, most fundies don't have any right to argue about spelling until they learn how it works. And this is a good example of that. If you think that the spelling makes a difference, then you really, really need to get some help and get a life.
Edit:
@Grigadil: Yeah, the Greek word for savior is "Soter", which is where the theological word 'soteriology' comes from.
Want my advice Bro. Nic? Burn it. Burn every copy you can find. Obviously it's spreading lies so burn it.
You guys are good at burning books, aren't ya? Particularly those you disagree with, right?
The boast in Isaiah is not about Satan, its about the King of Babylon.
That aside, The Holy Bible = 12 letters or 6+6 and there are 66 books in the bible, Isaiah is spelled with 6 letters, Christ is also 6 letters... um, who gives a rats ass?
Also, 666 could be a mistranslation.
[On the other hand six is the number of man which is earthly not heavenly. Every one has heard of 666. It has a bad connotation and is not highly esteemed in Bible numerics.]
The word "Christ" has 6 letters. The word "Jesus" has 5.
Now, the term "Gay love" has 7 letters. So that's holy, right?
I LOL'd
They don't really think like this, do they?
Scratch that, of course they don't. No one in their right mind could call that "thinking"
"So how many letters are in the Hebrew and Greek spellings of "Savior"?"
I don't know about Hebrew, but the Greek word translated "Savio(u)r" in English is "Soter," which has five letters in Greek (Sigma, Omega, Tau, Eta, Rho).
@ everyone asking how many letters "Saviour" is in Greek.
In "ancient" Greek it's "Sotir" (as mentionned earlier)
But in modern Greek it's "Sotiras" - 7 letters!
then again "bible" is "Vivlos" which is the dreaded 6 letter count... Oh well...
Savior is the American spelling.
But wait... Doesn't 'Christ', 'Cristo' and other spellings also have six letters?
Umm, dumbass... I hate to break this to you, but Christ has six letters. When Peter responded to Jesus' question, "Whom do you say that I am?" He responded by saying, "Thou art the Christ..." Which means anointed one.
Atheist Amy - it was funny the first few times I read stuff like this, then it just gets boring and disturbing that people have such a childish incomprehension of the world around them. It's Christmas time - wait till you see what they do with 'Santa'. Remember, Satanists love anagrams, they sure do.
(*Diddle-diddle-diddly-dee -PUM! *):
@mngamojemo
The name "Jesus" is a Greek form of "Joshua".
J-O-S-H-U-A HOLY SHIT SIX LETTERS!
I'll have a consonant, vowel, consonant, consonant, consonant, consonant, vowel, consonant, and a consonant please, Carol:
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I'll have two from the top, and five from anywhere else please, Carol.
X3
Yes, why bother with feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, tending to the sick, visiting those in prison and all that other stuff Jesus told you to do? Scrutinizing the spelling of a few of the immense number of biblical translations and re-printings is much more in line with his teachings. Why it says so in book...uhm...you know that one chapter that says...er...you know, that one!
Where do people get this nonsense about just using the King James Version?
Wikipedia confirms my memory that that Bible was originally written as a composite of Classical Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek, and then selected for inclusion in the standard collection in the 200-300's. In fact, the book of Daniel switches between Aramaic and Hebrew.
How can they assume that somehow everyone involved in all of those translations and selections was divinely inspired? Especially since, in the case of the King James Version, while it was originally translated in 1604 - 1611, the text wasn't finalized until about _1769_. From 1611 - 1644, large sections of the Apocrypha were even included in the printings.
Should we tell him there are different languages in the world besides english..err..I mean (in most fundie cases) american?
And how do you think that he will take the fact that NT was first written in greeck and the the OT in hebrew...?
In Swedish, Saviour/Savior is "Frälsare", i.e. eight letter.
Every one, what? You mean "everyone"?
Some have heard of 616...
So, you're a Queen James worshiper? Can't say I'm surprised.
Looking at the history of the Bible, the KJV is one of the new versions. The old versions are in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic. Jesus himself probably spoke Aramaic (if he existed at all).
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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