In a message dated 7/8/2009 11:51:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time, peter_jacobi@gmx.net writes:
There are two thousand years of struggling factions of christianity and libraries full of interpretations of bible verses. You cannot ignore this and propose that the bible verse can speak for itself.>>
No, but we can call those two thousand years worth of interpretationalistic scribblings "original research."
:)
-Steven