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Announcement I will be rearranging and possibly deleting or condensing my blogs to link with  my patreon and a possible future podcast 

please suggest summer topics

Please suggest some summer topics for #metousia blog n patreon 

Ive been in hiatus trying to finish off several other things 

At one stage there was a slender chance I would be moving house or getting a summer part time job or both and also trying to start and manage an online course in medical admin

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So possible topics summer seasshores the ocean beaches ? 

graphee

Graphee 

Some notes on 2 Timothy 3:16

This post expands on a recent tweet I made 

So you may have noticed self proclaimed  "biblical" or other Christians citing this verse in support of the doctrine of Scriptural Inerrancy.

In most translation the word Graphee is translated as scripture.

Whats often NOT pointed out by commentators who just cite the verse without explanation is that the word just means WRITING but also has other meanings.

In the NT it is usually used in the Gospels and Epistles to refer to the Old Testament and particularly to the Prophets.

The idea tbat Paul was claiming his writings were also divinely inspired or that this verse refers to the Bible as a whole is a HUMAN tradition. 

Paul was writing to Timothy about the Old Testament and how to use them combined with Faith 

Also the modern translations change a list into a paragraph

What Paul wrote in Greek:

All writing (OT implied reference to prior verse )

Godbreathed /inspired

And oophelimos profitable 

For teaching didaskalian

For evidence elegmon 

Evidence used in a court case that will be proven or disproven after discussion

Elegmov comes from the verb elegkhoo

For correction 

As literally a process of setting something set 

For education /training /culture the in righteousness 

So Paul is talking about using the Old Testament and Prophets and possibly some kind of ProtoGospel or record of Jesus

For its usefulness for instruction for evidence for correction for education 

In Righteousness 

Nowhere does he state a belief in biblical inerrancy.

He focuses in its use.

Yes you may read that verse differently but consider which characteristic Paul stated first 

USEFULNESS 

Usefulness towards reaching and maintaining a state of Righteousness 

And if you want to cross check what  I stated the Bible Hub website has a link for each word in that verse to Strong and Thayer and you can also check Logeion for secular usages or Liddell and Scott 

Finally consider this ?

 When Paul wrote that letter of advice to Timothy there was NO New Testament.

Should we really cite this verse to support biblical inerrancy? 

I may also type up these observations into a pdf and share it via my Patreon 

Women at a Fountain

 Women at a Fountain. 

Notice the detail of the artist rendering water with a GRAY slip and the robes unbound at the waist but clearly stitched at the shoulders and neck. The horizontal lines could be pleating from folding and ironing rather than formed by weaving. We also have an example of the meander pattern .

pdf collections SOON

I am trying to compile and edit my ever growing reference image collection into a series of pdfs or ebooks for publication via Patreon as pdfs.

They will be free $1or $5 depending on size and length.

So until I get more followers or something to announce or share this blog is on hiatus 

Go and scroll down to prior posts and leave comments please or visit my patreon 

Metousia.

Our Bodies Our Choices

 OUR BODIES OUR CHOICES 

How to say or write  it in Greek?

I choose sarkos instead of sooma because a certain issue is very physical and medical not just moral or theological and should be our PERSONAL CHOICE or CHOOSING whatever you decide.

note the middle participle from being genitive is the same for all genders 

I may put this up on DeviantArt Patreon and Redbubble too

 in a few different versions free to download or pay for a sticker.

If I do a PRO version and claim copyright the copyright is on my translation into Greek and the typographic design and if anyone thinks its exploitation of a current issue I'll be giving you a free version too and you are not paying my power or data bills?!

Edifying Classics for Christians

Edifying Classics for Christians 

It oftens saddens and annoys me to see self described "Christians" use the suffiency of scrpiture and sola scripture doctrines as an excuse not to read or study other useful classics Christian or Pagan that are quite edifying and useful.

The following works are all available in good modern translations 

Socrates Apology 

His defence of philosophy 

Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics 

The Dhammapada 

a Buddhist view of Ethics 

The Tao Te Ching 

Plutarchs Moralia 

These essays include writings on ethics and philosophy 

Boethius' Consolation

Kempis' Imitation of Christ 

I could aid to this list but these are classics that are particularly useful challenging and readable 

Finally please read some poetry apart from Psalms and your favorite church hymns! 

Other Mens Flowers is an excellent anthology compiled not by an Oxbridge professor but a British WW2 commander 

Trypanis Anthology of Greek Poetry from Homer to the 20th c. incuding byzantine christian poets  is also a good  introduction to the Greek Classics. 

If you can find a copy Waddells Mediaeval Latin Lyrics has Latin n English and includes secular and religious verse.

Now please you know who read something apart from Calvin.

If you must fixate on ibscure 17tth century writers Catholic or Protestant try Herbert ?