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Lojban Bible
Mar. 14th, 2005 10:35 amThe project to translate the Christian Bible into Lojban is working from English rather than Greek and Hebrew. It's apparently the Douay-Rheims translation. I think we currently only have one or two Lojban-speakers in Israel and none in Greece that I know of; even if we did, they no longer speak Koine Greek in Greece.
Something recently occured to me that amused me very much. My community of origin believes in secondary inspiration; the doctrine that not only does God directly dictate every word of a canonical text to the original authors (they act only as stenographers), but also Bible translators are miraculously inspired so that they infallibly write every jot and every tittle as God wishes to say it in English or any other language. If I participate in translating the Bible into Lojban and use a descendant of the correct Greek and Hebrew versions (the Textus Receptus according to them), I wonder if my teachers, pastors and parents would have to consider me to be in the ironic position of an atheist who is the mouthpiece of God? Then again, if I use the "corrupted" Alexandrian text on which the NIV is supposedly based, it would create no cognitive dissonance at all, since versions other than the KJV are bibles of the devil as far as they're concerned. Interesting isn't it?
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Something recently occured to me that amused me very much. My community of origin believes in secondary inspiration; the doctrine that not only does God directly dictate every word of a canonical text to the original authors (they act only as stenographers), but also Bible translators are miraculously inspired so that they infallibly write every jot and every tittle as God wishes to say it in English or any other language. If I participate in translating the Bible into Lojban and use a descendant of the correct Greek and Hebrew versions (the Textus Receptus according to them), I wonder if my teachers, pastors and parents would have to consider me to be in the ironic position of an atheist who is the mouthpiece of God? Then again, if I use the "corrupted" Alexandrian text on which the NIV is supposedly based, it would create no cognitive dissonance at all, since versions other than the KJV are bibles of the devil as far as they're concerned. Interesting isn't it?
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