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He didn't stay at one address for long. He didn't have regular income. He didn't have a credit history. He sometimes slept on the ground, and the cops would roust him or arrest him. He would also be in trouble with the law for feeding people without a Health Dept. license and inspections. He would be arrested for curing people without sanction of the American Medical Association or having a physician's license. He would be on the "no-fly list" for his out-spoken, dissident-type speech. He might even be called a terrorist by our current American government. If he disagreed with the current American president on anything, he might be called a "racist." He would not be allowed legally to have children, since he believed and practiced the value system of living one day at a time, only worrying about food enough for one day. This would not be acceptable to "child protection agencies." If they come to your abode and find an empty refrigerator, you could have your children taken away.</p> <p>Of course, all the above would or mighty apply to any of His true followers, since they would be doing the same things he did, "and even greater things shall do." One could thus accurately say that it is practically illegal to live like Christ in America.</p> <p><strong>September 30th, 2009</strong></p> <p>I have added music YouTube videos to my <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/links.html">links page</a>, of Larry Norman, Keith Green, Christopher Parkening, Cliff Richard, Creedence Clearwater Revival, plus there are still the great MIDIs for download there.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>September 21st, 2009</strong></p> <p><strong>Why I am opposed to the Healthcare Reform bill proposed by Dem. Sen. Baucus</strong></p> <p>The bill would make it mandatory for everyone to buy health insurance, just as it is mandatory now to buy car insurance. But I am healthy, and do not use enough health care services to even pass the deductible in health insurance policies. For this reason, I do not buy health insurance. I make 9 dollars an hour, so this proposed law would force me to have money withheld from my wages that would get me nothing for my money. This bill would be a hindrance to the working poor; not a help. </p> <p>The bill does not address the outrageous, nearly criminal retail mark-up in prices enjoyed by the healthcare industry. For example, hospitals are price offenders. They charge 10 dollars for an item that probably costs them 5 cents. Yes, I know; their excuse is that they have to do this to pay for the bills left unpaid by the uninsured. Look, that is false. The uninsured might be happy to pay the bills if they were reasonable bills. But the hospital bills are unconscionable. </p> <p>The bill does not contain tort reform. This is a reform that would limit the liability judgment awards that plaintiffs get from winning malpractice lawsuits against doctors and hospitals. Tort reform has been proven in states like California to reduce health and health insurance costs. </p> <p>Another reason I oppose mandatory health insurance is that I don't always agree with the western medicine model, so don't want to be forced to use it. The U.S. healthcare system is very oppressive to the truth in regards to alternative medicine, and natural, less expensive treatments that can actually cure some diseases. Diseases for which regular hospitals know no cure, but they will simply run up a million dollar tab for you. </p> <p>The bill would cut 400 billion dollars from current Medicare coverage. Senior citizens should rightly rise up against this bill. </p> <p>This bill is so bad for the working poor, and for the middle class, that it would be better to do nothing, than to pass this bill. </p> <p><strong>September 1st, 2009</strong></p> <p>I have just added the readings of the uncial 043 (Phi) to the footnotes of my translation of the <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/matt.pdf">The Gospel of Matthew</a>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>July 1st, 2009</strong></p> <p>I have uploaded my new translation of the <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/3john.pdf">Third Epistle of John</a>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>June 23rd, 2009</strong></p> <p>I have added the minuscules 1678 and 2080 to the witness list for <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/1john.pdf">1 John</a> and <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/2john.pdf">2 John</a>. In addition, I have cleaned up and further proof-read the footnotes to these files.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>April 30th, 2009</strong></p> <p>What about the swine flu?</p> <p>Here is one <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/04/swine-flu-skept.html">physician's advice</a>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><b>March 18th, 2009:</b></p> <p><b>The mark of the beast according to Papyrus 115</b></p> <p>Papyrus 115 reads (<a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/gfx/p115.jpg">image</a>) for the mark of the beast, <span style="font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">— §™Â</span>. The "<span style="font-family: &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">—</span>" letter is a whole Greek word that means "or."&nbsp; So it is speculated that it read  666 or 616. &nbsp; See my TC Exercises <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/tc.html">page</a> for some of the possibilities of what this papyrus originally said: </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img src="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/gfx/p115.jpg" alt="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/gfx/p115.jpg" border="0" height="651" width="609"><br> <br> <br> To download the edition of Revelation with the Greek NT text, with 369 footnotes, a 1.8 MB pdf, <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/revwgrk.pdf">right-click here</a> and then choose "save as."<br> To download the edition of Revelation with the textual variants in English, and 213 footnotes, a 700 KB pdf, <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/Revelation.pdf">right-click here</a> and then choose "save as."</p> <p><b>March 17th, 2009:</b></p> <p>I have just uploaded a MAJOR update of my translation of <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/Revelation.pdf">Revelation</a>, with all the major textual variants now footnoted with a revised consistent list of witnesses. I have also found quite a few errors in the process, unfortunately. It is just a huge job, and I have to go to a paying job too. But I am on a small vacation now, and have really attacked the revision and proof-reading job on these files. I have updated and corrected <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/2johnwgrk.pdf">2 John</a> significantly as well. I have also added about 5 new TC notes to my translation of the gospel of <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/markwgrk.pdf">Mark</a>.<br> <br> <br> To download the edition with the Greek NT text, with 369 footnotes, a 1.8 MB pdf, <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/revwgrk.pdf">right-click here</a> and then choose "save as."<br> To download the edition with the textual variants in English, and 213 footnotes, a 700 KB pdf, <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/Revelation.pdf">right-click here</a> and then choose "save as."</p> <p><strong>December 12, 2008</strong></p> <p><b>Regarding our financial crisis, please watch this video of the honorable representative from Texas speaking in Congress:</b></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-3QC1sfQ9RQ&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-3QC1sfQ9RQ&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></object>&nbsp;</p> <p><b>November 20, 2008:</b></p> <p>I have finished my translation of the <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/2johnwgrk.pdf">Second Epistle of John</a>. This document indicates every difference between the Robinson-Pierpont Greek text and the UBS/NA27 text in 2 John. It also shows differences, in the footnotes, between various editions of the KJV and TR for 2 John.</p> <p>It contains the Greek text of the Nestle-Aland 27th Edition ("NA27") combined with the Robinson-Pierpont ("RP") 2005 edition; The agreement thereof in black text; otherwise, the NA27 in green text and the RP in red; with critical footnotes combining the data from the Text und Textwert catholic epistles volume, the UBS4, the UBS3 (not including its patristic citations), the NA27, and the online Münster apparatus.</p> <p>Every one of the "teststellen" from Text und Textwert is listed in the apparatus with a greater number of witnesses, showing the readings of 86 of the Greek manuscripts:<br> <br> Papyrus 74 Aleph A B C K L P 044 048 049 056 0142 0232 1 5 6 18 33 69 81 82 88 93 104 175 181 221 252 307 321 322 323 326 330 398 424 429 436 442 450 451 454 456 457 468 469 614 621 623 627 629 630 642 920 945 1067 1127 1175 1241 1243 1292 1409 1505 1611 1735 1739 1846 1852 1862 1875 1881 1891 2127 2138 2147 2200 2298 2344 2374 2412 2464 2492 2495 2541 2805</p> <p>It is a pdf document, and its size is 211 KB. Here is the <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/2johnwgrk.pdf">download link</a> To download the PDF, right-click the link, and choose "save." </p> <p>To download the edition without the Greek (189 KB), right-click <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/2john.pdf">this link</a>, and then choose "save as."</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Wednesday October 22, 2008</strong></p> <p>I received a plea from a Christian brother in India for someone to send them Bibles. He says, "This is Tracy Bontha, TRACY BB , PO BOX 7, NRT - 522601, INDIA (PRAKASHNAGAR, NARSARAOPET) - 522601, INDIA. I am the Missionary and the Evangelist since 25 years . I do live in India . i do the missionary work and feeding the poor at times with the Gospel . Pray for us we will pray for you . God bless u so much.<br> in Christ <br> Tracy Bontha<br> bonthat at gmail dot com</p> <p><strong>Friday October 10, 2008</strong></p> <p>A <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSL2875626420080428">poll</a> shows that Americans are by far the most Bible-literate out of nine countries -- the United States, Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Russia, Italy, Spain and Poland. Spaniards and French were by far the lowest.</p> <p><strong>Wednesday October 1, 2008</strong></p> <p>I believe more firmly than ever in my Christian upbringing in regard to debt. In my circles as a child, Christians just didn't go into debt. The Bible, both old and new testaments, advises against it. Benjamin Franklin said, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." Now that I have become a man in America, I have been looked down on and regarded as less than a man and a bad Christian, because I never believed in getting a mortgage, or a college loan. </p> <p>Isn't it funny how the world system calls debt "credit."</p> <p>Am I supposed to feel sorry for people who bought a house at the top of the price market, and then got a loan they really couldn't afford, and now they are going to lose "their" house? First of all, if you must do business in the world system, then you must buy low and sell high. Why did they buy a house that is so over-priced in the first place? What we really need is exactly what is happening: those in debt go out of business, and the wise people who have no debt, get to buy the now lower-priced assets. That is how it is supposed to work. Don't bail anyone out; that just perpetuates the high prices.</p> <p>The Bible warns us not to be rooted in the world anyway. We are supposed to be pilgrims and strangers on the earth, looking for a better country, one whose builder and maker is God. Citizens of heaven. Of that kind of people, God is not ashamed to be called their god. When I was a child, one of my favorite songs was "This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through." Now the sentiment of that song is mocked by pastors and friends alike. Why? They do not live by faith. They have provided well for themselves; so they don't need God to provide for them.</p> <p>"Whatsoever is not of faith is sin." If your sense of financial security is based on the world's banks and governments, you are to be pitied for how way off you are. But if you look at the sparrow, and know that God cares about it and feeds it, then you know by faith he will certainly care for and feed you. He provides only enough for one day at a time. That's all he promises, provided you are seeking his kingdom first.</p> <p>If you want hear some sound advice from someone in politics, start by reading this <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/01/paul.qanda/index.html">CNN article</a>.</p> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"></div> <p><strong>Thursday July 10, 2008</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/man_sues_bible_publishers/2008/07/10/111626.html">Michigan man sues</a> two publishing companies for publishing Bibles that use the word "homosexual" in 1 Corinthians 6:9.</p> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"></div> <p><strong>Thursday May 29, 2008</strong></p> <p>I noticed again that the same Hebrew word for "desire / longing" is used in Genesis 3:16, Genesis 4:7, and Song of Solomon 7:10. Especially interesting is the similarity of Genesis 3:16 and 4:7:</p> <p>Gen. 3:16 - To the woman he said..."And your desire shall be your husband, and he shall rule over you."</p> <p>Gen. 4:7 - ...sin crouches at the door: and its desire is you, but you must rule over it.</p> <p>Did you know that you might be the object of sin's longing?</p> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"></div> <p><strong>Tuesday May 27, 2008</strong></p> <p>I uploaded to this website for the first time, my English translation of the <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/1john.pdf">First Epistle of John</a>. Have you ever had a problem with 1 John 3:9? The King James Version says, "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." If you have ever had a problem with accepting that whoever is born of God cannot sin, then <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/1john.pdf">download</a> my translation. It is translated correctly. If I didn't think there was need for improvement, I wouldn't be doing a Bible translation. But, if you think 1 John 3:9 as in the KJV does not need improvement, you would be one of few.</p> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"></div> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center">This blog is by David Robert Palmer.</p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> | <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/manu.html">NT Manuscripts</a> | <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/comp.html">Comments on versions</a> | <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/kjv.html">KJV-Onlyism</a> | <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/tran.html">Read About My Translations</a> | <a href="http://www.bibletranslation.ws/links.html">Links</a> </p> <form> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <div align="center"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.google.com/search"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><img src="http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_40wht.gif" alt="Google" border="0" height="32" width="32"></span></a></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><br> Search WWW Search www.bibletranslation.ws </span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </form> </div> </body></html>