More hatred and attempts to stir from frenchiegirl/dodgy/dodgey (same user who bashes Islam and Christianity to stir and is deleted). This is a decent conversation for decent people. Why try and ruin it. Please ignore him everyone, I am finding this thread very informative and would hate to see it turn into a bashing session.
Don't fee the troll!
Tented--thank you. I agree that Arabic is fascinatingly complex language, and beautiful when written with a talented hand. As it is both a sacred and living language it is interesting to learn about the push and pull between the preservation of the old Arabic and the evolving Arabic that expands to reflect the diversity of speakers and our changing world. Because the languages of the early Christian texts were in old Greek and Latin (both dead languages) there is no such debate for Christians (and of course much debate about translations!).
More hatred and attempts to stir from frenchiegirl/dodgy/dodgey (same user who bashes Islam and Christianity to stir and is deleted). This is a decent conversation for decent people. Why try and ruin it. Please ignore him everyone, I am finding this thread very informative and would hate to see it turn into a bashing session.
Don't fee the troll!
Tented--thank you. I agree that Arabic is fascinatingly complex language, and beautiful when written with a talented hand. As it is both a sacred and living language it is interesting to learn about the push and pull between the preservation of the old Arabic and the evolving Arabic that expands to reflect the diversity of speakers and our changing world. Because the languages of the early Christian texts were in old Greek and Latin (both dead languages) there is no such debate for Christians (and of course much debate about translations!).