What does it mean, “By his stripes we are healed”? Here we read form Isaiah 53: 4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded as for our transgressions, He was bruised as for our iniquities: The chastisement […]
Did Jesus Sin?
Did Jesus Sin? And if he did, did he ask for forgiveness for his sins? Did he even bring a sacrifice? A hallmark of the Law is that if one sins one must ask for repentance. (see: articles). Therefore, in order for Jesus to have fulfilled the law he must have asked for repentance iff […]
Why the KJV?
I had a conversation with a Rabbi a while back on the source text for the NSV. He advised me not to use the KJV. I actually agreed with him, it would be better and easier not to use the KJV as a source. However, I wanted to retain the feeling of the KJV as […]
Rashi is in!
The Public Domain Rashi commentary “Sefaria Community Edition” has now been added; from this point forward it will be known as the “NSV” edition. This is because we may make changes to the commentary based on other (Public Domain) versions of Rashi, or to modify the language to comport with our translation (since many passages […]
Automatic Rashi Formatting
First; Format the Verse line: sed ‘s/^Verse /==== Verse /g’ a > b Second, encase verse text within HTML tags: a: add opening tag sed ‘/==== Verse/a \<html\>’ b > c b: add closing tag sed -e ‘:a’ -e ‘N’ -e ‘$!ba’ -e ‘s/\n\n==== Verse/\<\/html\>\n\n==== Verse/g’ c > d c: fix spacing between tag and […]
NSV Phase 3 (Part 2)
I’m going to take a bit of a break from discord, per-se, and resume work on the site. In particular I will resume work on the NSV bible, phase 3. In general phase 3 needs to be wrapped up so I can start on Phase 4 which will be new testament commentary. In general this […]
Veritas Deleted
Banshee suddenly deleted Veritas server about a month ago. This made me upset so I took a vacation for a while. I’m back now, and things are moving very fast on my end, I don’t have much time but I will try to stay active on Discord for a while and write/edit some more articles […]
The Jubilee Year Problem
This week’s topic of the week is the Jubilee Year problem. I’ve decided to leave the write-up on the wiki this time. Jesus and the Jubilee Year
The No Observer Argument
Topic of the week for week ending 2021-01-02. This will be discussed during the bible study at 10am EST today on Discord. Contention In the double slit experiment, generally speaking the presence of an observer alters the outcome of the experiment. Due to the observation that the experiment can be completed in a manner in […]
The Pure Religion Channel
It looks like we will be able to operate out of the Veritas Server Discord channel “Pure Religion”. Veritas is Discord: https://discord.gg/tR2DZEe Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqeyddI79BAFUPL_9ZC28NA Event Times I will mainly be active around 10am and 10pm EST, with event announcements posted her and/or in the text channel associated with the voice channel. Bible Study Event — […]