Friday, May 02, 2008

A Better New Testament Verse

The CAMERA blog points out that, anachronistically, the NYTimes has Jesus in "Palestine":

In an April 22nd New York Times article, "In Syrian Villages, the Language of Jesus Lives", reporter Robert Worth asserted that Jesus spoke Aramaic "in Palestine two millennia ago." There was no such place as "Palestine" in the time of Jesus, since the Romans didn't rename Judea as "Palestina" until a hundred years after the death of Jesus.


I always use Acts 8:1 - "On that day a great persecution broke out against the church at Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria".

Why?

For it uses 'Judea and Samaria' together and there's no east Jerusalem.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

There will be no peace on Earth until we realize that we are all One! God made each of us in His image and likeness, but He did not create the person we believe ourselves to be. Our parents did that when they named us at our birth, Every 'human' child that has ever been born on Planet Earth, has been, and still is, God (the Father) in the infant stage of development. In the case od Mary's child that was born some 2000 years ago, he was named Jesus. It was not Jesus who was born. It was the Father Himself in the infant stage of development. Every man/woman on Planet Earth, is the Father . PERIOD! There is no one else, God is the reality of every one! My web site is http://www.thechristmind.org On it, there is everything you need to know to take one from their present state of mind into the Christ Mind...into a consciousness of Oneness. Please check it out The "I" within us is who we really are, and that "I", is God (the Father) THis is what the whole World has failed to see
Robert Clark

less said...

Well, considering that "Palestine" wasn't invented in the days of Jesus, I think further comments aren't really necessary.