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Fix The Bible! According to Dr. Norman Solhkah the Bible needs to be fixed！ What sounds on its face as a heretical rant, on closer inspection bears a little thought. Solhkah, an Assyrian, directs the Mesopotamian Museum in Chicago where he exhibits the history of his people. The Assyrian Christians are the original people of present day Iraq, the Ninevites of the story of Jonah and the first nation to accept Christianity. What puts Dr. Solhkah and his theory on the Bible up a few notches is the fact that he is one of the few people in the world who still speaks Aramaic、the language of Jesus himself. In contrast to what most people think, Jesus spoke Aramaic、not Jewis because it was the `lingua franca` of its day - like present day English. The language has completely died out except for the worldwide Assyrian Christian community who speak it to this day. Dr. Sokhkah`s beef concerns translations of some of the most significant portions of the Bible. `It is not that the Bible is mistaken. It simply has not been translated correctly.` One of the easiest passages to see what Dr. Solhkah is talking about is The Lord’s Prayer. Matthew 6, verse 13 reads `and do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from evil . . .` `What in the world is this talking about` exclaims Dr. Solkhkah! `God is going to lead us into temptation? That is ridiculous! How can God lead us into temptation?` Thinking about it for a moment, one realizes what he is saying. Having Aramaic as his original tongue, Dr. Solhkah goes back and forth between the original tongue and English and points out the contrast. `It should say` Dr. Solhkah says quoting Assyrian Scholar George M. Lamsa who painstakingly translated the whole Bible from the original tongue `And do not let us enter into temptation, but deliver us from evil.` `Now read the difference` he continues `One says to God `don’t lead us into temptation` and the other one says `do not let us enter into temptation`. Obviously the second translation makes sense.` He moves on to Verse 15 which says `But if ye forgive not men their trespasses neither will your father forgive your trespasses.` `Who are we, mere men to be telling God what to do` says Solhkah. `It should say `but if ye forgive not men their trespasses as your father has forgiven you.` `See what I mean? It is just common sense! The world needs us Assyrians around to keerp things right.` he says with a smile! What particularly bothers Dr. Solhkah is that millions of people all over the world every day say The Lords Prayer wrong. `This is probably the most commonly said prayer in the world . . .and they are getting it wrong!` Whether this is just one opinion of a man who can see the discussion from both sides or an important area of theological research, Solhkah brings out an important point. `The Bible is correct. I just think we need to check it and make sure what God said is coming out correctly.` Dr. Norman has a standing offer to anyone who would challenge him on the points at his website www.doctornorman.com. Further, nearly 100,000 Assyrian Christians have already left the Iraq - not fearful of violence, but fearful of a developing Islamic Republic of Iraq. Experts believe the only way the community - one of the last major surviving Christian communities in the Middle East can survive is if they are provided an Assyrian Province in their original homeland in the North of Iraq, promised by the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Iraq and guaranteed in the Iraqi Constitution. As the `canary in the coalmine`, many see the Assyrian Christians as the measure of success in Iraq. A province of their own would draw back those throughout the world and allow at least the northern half of Iraq to be succesful. In a time when Iraq is in the headlines, it is a good time to realize that what is happening in Iraq is not just about American Forces, Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis, but the very survival of the only people on the face of the earth who still speak the language of Jesus! Ken Joseph Jr.。 Ken@keikyo.com --------------------- |
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