I think it’s good to share information and engage in conversations about Christ. I noticed this community has a lot of “religious” posts but I’m often seeing common misconceptions and a lot of negativity or hopelessness.
Are religious posts encouraged on this forum? I have been working on a series of posts over on the christianity . win and I’m wondering if there would be more conversation by posting here
Thank you for this reply!
I think something you may be alluding to can be found in a recent post I made. It’s super short, so I will just copy and paste the contents here. The name of a demon (please be patient if that is not something you believe exists), is translated as “night bird” because the translators felt uncomfortable to put a pagan goddess / demon in the Bible. Is this the sort of thing you are talking about?
I found it on a podcast (linked below) but was able to verify it using the BLB app which has access to the original language.
I think you’re questioning the methods by which the reliability of a source can be verified. I asked something similar once myself, trying to explore what a university actually would be. I don’t remember the entirety of that explored conversation but it may be a post in my history. The idea was to question at what point an organization (a group of people united under one common belief) is no longer valid; another example would be to recognize the corruption of the medical field, but also to recognize it would be stupid to say we should completely restart the medical field.
Contents of that post referenced below
Isaiah 34:14 (ESV) And wild animals shall meet with hyenas; the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; indeed, there lîlîṯ (the night bird) settles and finds for herself a resting place.
לִילִית lîlîṯ
Monster Manual introduces some ancient cultural understandings of the demonic, demonstrates numerous examples within Holy Scripture and then discuss how our modern culture makes “monsters” cute & morally neutral.