@JamesShewey Anyway don’t worry about tracking down the statistic, which doesn’t really matter for the purposes of this site. The main point of your answer remains valid regardless. I was just being pedantic as usual.
@JamesShewey Thanks! Of course, now we're no longer talking about "worldwide".
> Populations were excluded from analysis if there was any evidence of industrial production, a predominantly cash-based economy or demographic transition (increase in child survival and reduction in fertility) at the time of observation.
@Susan The rule of thumb would be to employ Occam's razor, or in the words of Isaac Newton, "We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances." Unless there is substantial reason for not doing so, the last "needy" modifies the noun "souls", and should be written in English as, "The needy souls". Your claim of "secret knowledge", here, that allows you to do something different, must be proven. — enegue30 mins ago
There are two types of people in the world: those who think that Occam’s razor provides insight sufficient to understand all of the world’s languages sans grammar, as those who don’t.
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Anyone else in the secret handshake club interested in weighing in here?
The Idea in Brief
The soul is the very life that all living creatures appear to share. (Thus no cadaver, whether man or animal, possesses the "nephesh.") However, only human beings possess the spirit, which appears to be the "Image of God."
Discussion
The passage of Hebrews 4:12 appears to dis...
All three words can mean something like "soul", e.g., neshama in גלגול נשמות, and ruach in וַתְּחִי רוּחַ יַעֲקֹב אֲבִיהֶם (Bereshit 45:27). So, what is the difference?
@Susan I made a reply. I am hesitant to be too hard on enegue as he tries hard, but his answer on the Canaanites question made we sick when he tried to guess the meaning of LXX words based on most similar looking word he could find in Strong's. (Sort of corrected since I pointed out the actual meanings, but surprisingly the (IMO) embarrassing speculation was not completely edited out.)
1 Tim 3:2, 12 and Titus 1:6 all feature the phrase mias gynaikas andra lit. 'one woman man' or 'one wife husband'. Mounce notes that
"This phrase is one of the most difficult phrases in the PE"[1]
and he's not wrong.
Primarily, there are two ways to interpret mias gynaikas andra: The fir...
All three words can mean something like "soul", e.g., neshama in גלגול נשמות, and ruach in וַתְּחִי רוּחַ יַעֲקֹב אֲבִיהֶם (Bereshit 45:27). So, what is the difference?
1 Tim 3:2, 12 and Titus 1:6 all feature the phrase mias gynaikas andra lit. 'one woman man' or 'one wife husband'. Mounce notes that
"This phrase is one of the most difficult phrases in the PE"[1]
and he's not wrong.
Primarily, there are two ways to interpret mias gynaikas andra: The fir...
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