Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Stuff





What's your Battle-Cry?

this quiz was made by Aroihkin of PlanetKulitron

Yes I stole this. How else do quizzes make their way through the internet..? :p

aaaanyway..

The lie that is "Jesus"

You heard me.

And you'd be surprised how little I've actually changed.

As a matter of fact this is something I've been thinking about a fair bit over the last two weeks, and a little bit before that.

Actually a more accurate title would be "the lie that is 'J'"

I don't know what exactly was going through the minds of the Bible transliterators of old times, but rest assured that the following names are completely wrong:

Jesus, Jehovah, Jacob, Jeremiah (and many more beginning with or including "J".

They're all wrong. There isn't even a letter J in either hebrew or Greek- and these are the two languages in which the original scriptures were written.

Jehovah is in fact "Yehowah"
Jacob is Ya'aqov, believe it or not
Jeremiah - Yiremeyah
Jesus (Greek) - Yay-soos - actually Greek has no "y", so it is spelt "Iesous" (ee-ay-soos)
Jesus (Hebrew) - Yesha'eyah - also Yeshua, another form of Yoshua, the hebrew of Joshua

I guess my actual point here is that it's all good and well to use the names that are currently in the Bible- for the simple reason that they are the modern day equivalents, and thus they make more sense to us.

But don't fall into the illusion that they are the actual names that were used at the time, because that's completely untrue.

The Random Things of Life

Recieved a text message on my phone at 1:30 in the morning. Well, I would have don, but my phone wasn't actually on. I actually recieved it at about 11:00 when I turned my phone on.

It was from Becky- one of the old staff from Sports soccer (This place where I worked, stole, got sacked, and then became a Christian. I'll put the full story on my website when it's done).

"Hey up Dan it's Becky only jus got hold of your no from danny chalinor hope u r keepin well! Long time no see!"

I'd thought briefly about Becky a few times since moving up to Sheffield.

I mean, we got on really well at Sports Soccer. She was the only one who rang me up soon after what happened there, and that meant a lot to me too.

But things being as life is, within a few months we pretty much stopped being in contact.

It can be a great burden at times, being of the Christian faith. Particularly when there are friends you had but you have no contact with, or means of contacting them, any more.

It scares me at times to realise the array of friends I've had over the years.. and you know what I have left..?

I have my friends back at my church in Stoke, and I have my new friends in Sheffield. That's it. Everyone else I know I either know over the internet or I don't really consider to be a friend as such.

It just bugs me in a way that I've lost so many friends over the years. Not through falling out, but through lack of contact.

Take Adam Warrilow. This guy I knew when I was in primary school- and in the last few years we were inseperable.

Then came high school- we still saw each other quite regularly, but we weren't quite inseperable, particularly cos we were at different high schools.

Then came college- I saw him about once through my two years at college- and that was pure chance- we just both happened to be in the same bar and both knew one particular person.

I never saw him during my time at uni at all.

It's a similar story with practically every friend I've had, close or not so close. I have no problem being close to people and making great friends. Even now, after having lost so many, I have no difficulty making new ones.. it just kind of feels bad thinking of how many I've lost.

What was I getting at before this random rant..? Oh yeah.. Becky sent me a message. Hopefully I might see her at some point in the next week while I'm back at Stoke.

Which reminds me. Tomorrow night I'm going back to Stoke for a week, so there'll be no posts here and no Dan on AIM.

Keep yourselves busy, won't you? :p
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