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Very Advanced Topic (Serious Input Requested): A Presentation on Old Greek (Yes, posted by Steefen)
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Steefen
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December 19, 2024 - 3:29 pm

Bible Scholars and Classicists are not a good interdisciplinarian mix.
Bart alluded to that to me more than a decade ago.

Biblical scholars CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH.

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December 19, 2024 - 3:52 pm

A person cannot write the story of the United States 2015-2024 without including the opioid crisis and the fentanyl crisis.
A person is deluded to have a view of 100 BCE to 150 BCE without including medicinal and recreational drugs in that timeframe.

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The biblical Jesus is a composite character of historical fiction
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The biblical Jesus is a composite character of historical fiction based on true events for a mature audience educated beyond biblical studies.

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Ammon Hillman’s book The Chemical Muse has 116 ratings averaging 4.6 stars with 80% being 5 stars.

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After watching the video, “Ancient Language Expert: Jesus Christ Used Children as Drugs | Ammonj Hillman,” we have a key reason why Jesus would get the death penalty (a life sentence or a very long sentence) today.

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Colin Milton

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December 19, 2024 - 4:46 pm

“The Laws of the Jews” and the Old Testament are synonymous meanings? The Law would mostly just refer to the book of Leviticus and maybe a few passages from Deuteronomy.

Anyways, I’m not here to defend 20th century Zionism and the Jewish Holocaust after the Jewish Enlightenment regarding the history and inventions of modern pseudo Hebrew so that rabbis can hide behind a very limited vocabulary of what was before the 21st century considered sacred language that was never meant to be spoken in public but only in synagogues.

Anyways, moving onward.

I would say he has a valid linguistic argument. If the claims were ever in fact practiced within the early church as the authentic interpretation of Christianity can never be proven or disproven. (Unfalsifiable). Most claims are unfalsifiable because we only exist in the present, not the past.

1 John 5:8

He’s talking about an ancient pseudo science medicine called “the purple”. Mixing blue (water) and red (blood) creates the color purple. Whatever the specific details are that he’s talking about within the context of Ancient Greek are most likely a felony sex offender sex crime in the USA courts of law today.

Now read 1 John 5:8. Yes I know that there are many exceptions that water in real everyday life doesn’t usually look blue unless you’re out on the ocean looking at a vast ocean, but you get the concept of blue and water, red and blood, mix in “spirit” and you have “the purple”.

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December 19, 2024 - 6:05 pm
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Colin Milton

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December 19, 2024 - 7:37 pm

I think people should (have the right) interpret the Bible however is best for their mental health, because mental illness is a purple demon. 😈

I can imagine that back in the day if something like this was even mentioned in the Protestant church I knew, there would be elders having strokes, heart attacks, and we’re calling 911 and the police. Maybe not, most are hard of hearing and are just there.

** you do not have permission to see this link ** 😂 I’m not going to read it obviously.

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December 20, 2024 - 4:55 pm

Typo correction:
A person cannot write the story of the United States 2015-2024 without including the opioid crisis and the fentanyl crisis.
A person is deluded to have a view of 100 BCE to 150 CE without including medicinal and recreational drugs in that timeframe.

100 BCE to 150 CE is the correction.

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December 20, 2024 - 5:27 pm
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Stephen
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December 20, 2024 - 9:54 pm

It is also wrong to apply unusual meanings of words from a highly specialized field of knowledge to other contexts where the more usual, much more frequent meanings of words apply.

Also to pretend John Allegro didn’t pull this shtick 50 years ago a lot more entertainingly. That’s the problem with the current crop of pseudoscholars. No frickin institutional memory. But then every generation that comes along thinks they invented sex, drugs and rock-n-roll.

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Colin Milton

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December 21, 2024 - 5:27 am

Luke was a physician and author. You’re reading the language of Luke, who was traveling with Paul. Luke knew about the Greeks.

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Steefen
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December 21, 2024 - 1:06 pm

Bible Scholar Wess Huff vs. Ammon Hollman

I prefer that Ammon Hollman speak in a better manner than he does–but he doesn’t.
I’m obligated to hear the facts and the arguments through what I do not like about his manner of speaking.

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December 21, 2024 - 1:51 pm

New International Version
Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”
Mark 5: 9

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King James Bible
And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus’ feet, and besought him that he would come into his house:
Luke 8: 41

Ammon:
When you are in a cult that puts you into a death state, people come to you for help when things have gone wrong in the process.
You are a priest, and as a priest, that makes you a physician.

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While Jesus was still speaking, someone came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” he said. “Don’t bother the teacher anymore.”

Hearing this, Jesus said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.”

When he arrived at the house of Jairus, he did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John and James, and the child’s father and mother.

Heal means to counteract. The drug is an antidote.

Jesus was delayed because he was healing people. That is what the people with the drug knowledge do.

Steefen
Sooo, Jesus was not necessarily doing healing miracles. He was healing the way doctors heal. Have the drug knowledge? Use the drugs to heal people.

Ammon:
The mystery cult of the Jerusalem Church before Jesus was crucified is based on the medicine that involves the use of mind-altering drugs.
This is ancient cult [not 1960 CE where medical practices have changed and morality has been redefined).
Luke 8:49-51

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December 21, 2024 - 2:05 pm
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December 21, 2024 - 2:29 pm

Picking up at 56:10

Meanwhile, all the people were wailing and mourning for her. “Stop wailing,” Jesus said. “She is not dead but asleep.”

Luke 8:52

But he took her by the hand and said, “My child, get up!”
Her spirit returned, and at once she stood up. Then Jesus told them to give her something to eat.

Luke 8:54-55

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He moves into Luke 9: 1 – Jesus gives his 12 disciples the authority to heal and cast out demons.
9-2 – he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal

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He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.”
Mark 5:23

Revelation 1:17
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last.

(Steefen: Nice linking raising Jarius daughter to I fell at his feet as though dead.)

Acts of Thomas – Jesus sold Thomas off.

Next verse is verse 18.
I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.

Ammon: this is a mystery, the mystery of 7 stars

Rev 12: 9
The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

Ammon: Satan comes from Saturnus

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Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.

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They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

Ammon: Lamb is a translation but a better translation is Fleece upon which is written a song of Medea who was called Christ.

Hygenic salvation. He washes his disciples feet.

verse 12
Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.”

Ammon: Christmas is Christ Mass

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December 21, 2024 - 2:59 pm

No wonder why Paul did not like magicians.

next verse:
When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

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Hammon:
Alexipharmaca

There were priestess and priests of oracles.

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December 21, 2024 - 11:16 pm

Ammon Hollman’s manner of speaking is better in this important video.

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December 21, 2024 - 11:48 pm

Mary produces the she-Jesus.

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December 22, 2024 - 12:21 am

This could be the next video because it covers something he said in the last video.

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