For Andrew Gabriel Roth

[Christina]

Khati Khabibta (beloved sister) Christina,

I love it <!-- s:biggrin: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif" alt=":biggrin:" title="Big Grin" /><!-- s:biggrin: --> see what I mean, we must get rid of all the Greek & Latin terminology.

I wish the Church had one language. Only someone multi-lingual can truly understand the phenomenon at play here. It is nearly impossible to have two languages as different as Greek and Aramaic are convey the same word-imagery. Especially in cases where a cognate term does not exist on one side. That goes both ways.

As the saying goes .... they are speaking "two different languages."

But, if only it were a matter simply of just terms. Where one side could then borrow a loan-word (like we did with "parsopa"). Sometimes a whole concept is not conveyed properly by simply trying to find a cognate. That's the reason why Ephesus was such a tragedy. Both sides were really saying the same thing, but neither understood the other. I fear they still don't.

+Shamasha

I hear you akhan Paul it is sad indeed, but what is sadder still is when people just refuse to even make an effort to try to understand, and unfortunately where the Greco-Roman church for the most part is concerned, they are guilty of this very thing and are without excuse. But we shouldn't let that discourage us, we must still speak the truth.