Posted by Janey on March 24, 1999 at 09:15:22 {MWfZlKV6ncg82}:
This thread on YHWH has really proved embarrassing to Jan. I plan on posting all of his comments on a web page and then adding the page to every search engine I can find. This should help those who see his �All Along the Watchtower� site understanding that he doesn�t understand even the simplest of points on Bible subjects.
Here are a few more �gems� from his YHWH posts.
JANEY - But since J.H. has such a hard time understanding these simple points, and s8ince he relies
on the Jerome Bible Commentary and some journals who merely present the traditional view,
JAN - Look how easily actual evidence is brushed aside? No attempt is made here to deal with arguments, and even less the merit of the scholars or the sources.
What Jan does not understand is that he did not give ANY arguments at all! He just referred to a couple sources and that was that. No summary of the points. NOTHING! So either he did not understand what his sources were
saying or he knows that they really have nothing to say in his favor.
But here is a real example of someone brushing arguments aside.
ME QUOTING STAFFORD - and writing the English, shortened form of it, namely, the two-syllable "Jesus." In fact, the Hebrew language does this with the spelling of God�s name so that some of its occurrences are as a hypocoristic (shortened) form, YH (or JH), in the extant manuscripts. In some of the Hebrew personal names that incorporate a theophoric (divine name-bearing) suffix, we find three different treatments of such names. First, there is the case where a theophoric suffix (for example, -yah [Hebrew YH] or -yahu [Hebrew YHW], instead of the full spelling Jehovah or Yahweh [Hebrew YHWH], of course,) was sometimes entirely dropped. Thus, Berekhyahu could and did become truncated to Berekh (= the Anglicized Baruch). We know this from a comparison of the extant Hebrew manuscripts, which preserve the shortened form as reflected in our English versions� spelling of the name "Baruch," with seventh-century BCE �seals and seal impressions of six Biblical [Judahite] personages recovered.�
JAN - Quite interesting, and totally irrelevant.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Therein lies the genius of Jan. Uh, Jan, why don�t you EXPLAIN why the above is �irrelevant�? I doubt you have the faintest idea what Stafford is saying.
But here is my favorite. I will make sure to highlight this every way I know how on my web page.
ME QUOTING STAFFORD - After all, we think nothing of our taking the Greek trisyllable Iesous, pronounced ee-aye-soos, with emphasis on the final syllable)
JAN - Uh, how many
syllables you say, Stafford?
No, that is not a typo. Either Jan does not know what a syllable is, or he cannot count. Or he does not know how to pronounce the Greek word for �Jesus.� Or maybe, and this is the most likely option, he does
not know what a syllable is, how to count, OR how to pronounce the Greek word for �Jesus�!
Any way you slice it, Jan condemns himself to idiocy by the above words. NOTE: I am not attacking him. I am simply letting him tell us how ignorant he is.
Janey