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::Maybe we could set up a track for helping students skip a year of college with AP or CLEP credits, with tips on which colleges accept which credits. Saving a year's tuition can help students enormously.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 14:59, 19 June 2010 (EDT)
::Maybe we could set up a track for helping students skip a year of college with AP or CLEP credits, with tips on which colleges accept which credits. Saving a year's tuition can help students enormously.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 14:59, 19 June 2010 (EDT)
==The Nature of Greek and English==<br />
Greetings, <br />
There is no such thing as "the original English." I assume that you just made an accidental slip in writing that in your message to me.
Are you saying that English is more precise than Greek? If so, what leads you to believe that? How much Greek have you had?<br />
Perhaps you are an expert in math and physics. Though I took calculus and physics at Georgia Tech, I am not a major in those areas, and I would be wary of posting articles on those subjects. If Bible and Greek are not your majors, you might back off from translating the Bible. Pardon me if indeed you have a graduate degree in Greek.
How do you know that "concepts which are only vaguely expressed in Greek can be made crystal clear in English."
If they Lord gave us passages which have studied ambiguity, who are we to change that?
My colleague, you are in the process of producing a product which is not a translation at all, and which will bring Conservapedia into ridicule. Students of Greek will disparage the product as the product of uneducated hybris. The only service you can do to readers is to enable them to read God's word accurately. Of course you could do them a service by giving them something to roll on the floor laughing at, including the entire Conservapedia. But I don't think you want to do that.
I am concerned about a distortion of God's word and also sincerely about your stance regarding translation.
If you are a born-again Christian and know the Lord Jesus as your only and sufficient Savior (no works), then please give my comments prayerful consideration.([[User:Thunkful|Thunkful]] 15:19, 19 June 2010 (EDT))