Fw: Fw: Mithras

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RONCRISS

>   Perhaps I am mistaken, but I thought the "soldiers" that arrested 

> Jesus in the garden were Jewish guards from the Temple, not Romans.

>   By the way Brian, you still have not responded to my challenge 

> concerning "one" angel vs "angels" in the gospel accounts. Does that 

> mean you concede?   



> >> >PAT

> >> 

> >> >   John 8:58,59 "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before 

> Abraham

> >> >was born, I am!"  At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but 

> Jesus

> >> >hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.  When Jesus used 

> the

> >> >term "I Am", He was using the name that God gave when Moses asked 

> who he

> >> >should say sent him to the Israelites in Egypt.

> >> 

> >> CARR

> >> This is true, but 'ego eimi' is used  in the Septuagint to translate

> >> passages which in the Hebrew say 'I Lord' or 'I Yahweh'. The 

> reference

> >> to the Old Testament only works in Greek.

> >> 

> >> What is the Hebrew or Aramaic for 'I am'? How do you say 'I am' in

> >> Hebrew?

> >> 

> >> 

> >> Here is a question for you to duck again. 

> >> 

> >> When the cohort (500) soldiers come to arrest Jesus in John 18:6 and

> >> Jesus says 'I am' (ego eimi), why do they fall on the ground in

> >> recognition of his divinity?

> >> 

> >> It is vaguely possible that the people in John 8:58 recognised the 

> Greek

> >> Old Testament when Jesus said 'I am' in Aramaic, but why would the 

> Roman

> >> soldiers have been familiar with the Greek translation of Exodus?

> >> 

> >> -- 

> >> Steven Carr steven@bowness.demon.co.uk

> >> Visit the UK's leading atheist Web page

> >>  http://www.bowness.demon.co.uk/

> >

> 

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