Its more like democrazy in South Africa. The illusion of a democracy is slowly fading away. This could clearly be seen yesterday at the DA March in Johannesburg where on their way to Cosatu’s palace the DA received more than just a few onlookers. No, Cosatu had to throw the pavement at them.

 

“DA policies… will create no new jobs… and lead to the impoverishment and enslavement of workers and [an] economic meltdown for South Africa,” spokesperson Patrick Craven said in a statement.

“That is why workers are so hostile towards  Helen Zille’s party and want to express their justified anger, most especially when there are confronted on the street outside their federation’s head office,”

Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven said in a statement.

Yeah those trolls believe that if they dont agree with someone’s opinion that they can throw them with bricks and still call South Africa a democracy.

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Rudolf Kittel’s son was a Nazi. We all know the story behind it, his son was tried and convicted of war crimes and also wrote the “Nazi bible”. His name was Gerhard Kittel.

But was Rudolf Kittel a Nazi? There is actually no evidence that supports this theory, not quotes, no evidence at all. So we really shouldnt misquote and attack Rudolf Kittel for being a Nazi if we have no evidence. However, that is not to say his Hebrew Old Testament was accurate or even near accurate. That however is the not the purpose of this post.

The purpose of this post is to say that Rudolf Kittel should’nt be called a Nazi if he really was’nt a Nazi.

I’m not defending any of his writings or his translation of scriptures. I’m only saying there is no evidence to say he was a Nazi.

Oh and really, grow up, there is not big difference between Rudolph Kittel and Rudolf Kittel. Sure some people misspell his name, probably because most encyclopedias spell his name Rudolf instead of Rudolph.

Most people that are from the Wescott and Hort cult claim that the 1611 King James version was full of spelling errors. Oh the horror. The thing is the English language was not standardized yet. That was still the developing stages of the English language as we know it today.

Most of the attacks from the Wescott and Hort only cult are from things that doesnt really change any doctrine like most of the new versions. If you look closely the King James Version of the bible was in fact one of the things that made English what it is today.

Most people that claim a bunch of spelling error dont even have the vocabulary of the KJV. They dont understand the “big words” even though they are English. The bible says study to show yourself approved. They can only find small minor misspellings and grammar errors.

Its because they dont really have ammunition that they need to destroy the God’s word. The new versions remove “God was manifested in the flesh”, They remove “Christ” many many times. They remove the Zephaniah prophecy, they change doctrine such as lucifer falling from heaven, they change creation to evolution. The list goes on.

Clifton 4th beach on a nice clear day

Apart from the fact that this is really my interest, the history of the bible that is. Why would anyone write about bible versions? Isnt all bible versions basically the same? Isnt it like attacking other Christians? Well the answer to the last two questions is no.

The bible says in Ephesians 5:11 that we should :

Eph 5:11  And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

So we should reprove or expose people that are of the “unfruitful works of darkness”. The point is not very much focused on them but rather on their work. The point is not to bash other people.

Secondly, a lot of people involved in translating bible versions are not really Christians and they sneak in error and heresies into the new bible versions.

The two most used dictionaries on e-sword and in general for bible studies is the Thayer and Strong dictionaries. Have you ever wondered if these guys actually believed the bible? Well i cant tell you whether they did or did not but what i can tell you is that they were both on the translation committee for the Revised Version of 1885. As far as I can tell they werent part of the Theosophical society as Wescott and Hort were.

In 1891 Thayer wrote that he disagreed with the theory of Biblical inerrancy, that is that the bible is free of errors. He also claimed that this did not detract from his belief in the soundness of Christianity.

James Strong also worked closely with the translators of the 1885 Revised Version.

Does this make them “wrong” or unbelieving? Well i dont know. I guess that is not for me to say.

The Ipad3 is now available in South Africa, just this week Nashua mobile said they have the thing available for on contract or cash. The thing is, I dont or wont buy an ipad for the simple reason that it is not lasting. Now let me explain what i mean with that. With lasting i mean they dont bring out an Ipad and there it is, no they have to bring out the first one then buy the time you have enough cash for the 1st one then there is a second. By the second one if you dont buy it you probably really want it so you save up for the second one by the time you have just enough cash to buy the second Ipad then guess what. Ipad3 comes out.

There you sit with your brand new Ipad 2 while thinking you wish you had an Ipad 3 but I bet you by the time you got enough spare cash for number 3 then the next one will probably be out. That is what i mean with a lasting product. Unlike the Ipad.

The Codex Gigas is a massive bible or book rather, it comes from the 13th century and the name literally means Giant Codex or Giant Book. Its not only a big book by itself but its the biggest medieval manuscript or book in the world. The book is also known as the Devil’s bible and its not what most people think it is. Mention the “devil’s bible” and people almost want to burn it. The name however comes from a massive image on one of the pages depicting the devil.  Creepy enough the bible also comes from the Benedictine monastery of Podlazice in Bohemia. Today Bohemia is known as the Czech Republic.

The text of the bible is Vulgate written in Latin.

The massive codex has a wooden cover and a leather surrounding. The length of the bible is almost 1 meter long (92cm by 50cm) and a half a meter wide. It weights a massive 74.8kg, as much as a small adult. It contains 310 leaves made from donkey skins. Some pages are lost.

As mentioned earlier the bible is the text of the Vulgate and it does not contain Acts or the book of Revelation.

Codex Sangallensis is a collection of medievil era manuscripts or books currently housed at Abbey Library of Saint Gall in St. Gallen, a old city in Switzerland.

Interesting to note in the book:

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