"John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
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>>>> What Mr. Jefferson did then is much easier to do today, which is to
compare
> the original Greek and Hebrew to the King James English translations. He
> was concerned about the "translational errors" which are due mainly to the
> way the meaning of English words changed. FOR EXAMPLE, the word "bastard"
> in "A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to
his
> tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD",
> Deuteronomy 23:2 used to mean "mongrel", not "illegitimate child".
>> John Knight
>Bullshit. Jefferson rejected any "miraculous" element of the stories as
irrational.
Joe
