Agnideva said:Not anymore. I also follow Hinduism ... a combo of monistic-theistic Shaivite and Vedantic branches.
I dont feel so alone non thanks to you Agnideva
Happy New year to you and all on these bords.
Agnideva said:Not anymore. I also follow Hinduism ... a combo of monistic-theistic Shaivite and Vedantic branches.
redindica said:Well apparentley I'm the only Hindu here! : (
lol...wish my brothers and sisters would participate more.
funny how many Christians follow the teachings of Moses (10 commandments and the like) and the history of Jesus.my religion is Jesus and the bible. i guess that makes me Christian but without the 'ity'.
Hi Bandit. Doesn't christian in essence mean "anointed ones" in the body of the ekklesia/called out ones?Bandit said:my religion is Jesus and the bible.
i guess that makes me Christian but without the 'ity'.
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica]By the time the Bible was finally translated into English, the entire pagan Roman cult had come to be known as “the circle” and this term was later rendered into Old and Middle English as “church.”[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica] [/font] [font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica]When Tyndale produced the first English translation of the Bible, he correctly translated the word ekklesia as “assembly.” However, when King James commissioned the 1611 translation, he apparently arbitrarily decreed that the word be translated using the common term for the Roman cult, “church,” and so that tradition has also been followed by modern translators without regard to the actual grammatical meaning of the word ekklesia.[/font]