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stuffin:
Opinion From a Local Paper Regarding The God Particle
--- Quote ---My interest in the “God particle” reaches back into college days in the 1940s. While attending Long Island University, my physics professor took us into a study of atoms and subatomic elements. The question was: “Is there something that somehow causes elements of matter to adhere and form mass, which combines with gravity and gives all object weight?” Our professor spoke honestly and suggested we call it cosmic glue.
In the 1960s, physicist Peter Higgs suggested that a particle must exist that creates a “sticky” field that acts as a drag on other particles and thus forms matter. The unknown particle has been referred to as Higgs Boson. And this is the cosmic glue that has been discovered and now announced to the world on July 4 as the “God particle.”
As a Lutheran clergyman, I have studied the Greek language in which the New Testament was written. While reading one of the epistles of St. Paul, I discovered a word that seemed to offer the “God answer” to the problem of the “God particle.” In St. Paul’s letter to the Colossians, Chapter 1, Verse 16, he writes “By Him (God), all things were created. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” The words “hold together” are a translation of a Greek word “sunistemi,” which means “hold together, adhere, cohere in mutual dependence.” Sort of like a cosmic glue?
Does it make one wonder how a man who lived 2,000 years ago and who had never studied physics could somehow understand the secret to something that has puzzled brilliant modern minds for so many years?
Could it be that St. Paul offered God’s answer to the question of the God particle? I think so.The Rev. Frederick R. Harm
Pastoral assistant, Christ Lutheran Church, Manchester
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http://www.app.com/article/20120803/NJOPINION02/308030017/Answer-God-particle-found-St-Paul-s-epistle?odyssey=mod
He makes this fit really good, but I'm sure St Paul had no Clue about atomic particles when he said what he said
Quesi:
You know what else is really cool?
If you read St. Paul’s letter to the Colossians, in Greek, with a British accent, into a tape recorder, and then play the recording backwards, you will hear the backwards recording reveal not only the god particle, but it will actually mention Higgins by name!
It will also reveal the details of germ theory, weather patterns, e=mc2, the attacks of September 11, and the 2008 housing crisis and subsequent fall in the stock market. It also mentions the location of Mrs. Olinda's lost cat, who went missing last Tuesday, and is in fact hiding in the woodshed and feasting on mice.
Does it make one wonder how a man who lived 2,000 years ago and who had never studied physics, biology, meteorology, or economics, (and someone who didn't even KNOW Mrs. Olinda), could somehow understand the secret to something that has puzzled brilliant modern minds for so many years?
Could it be that St. Paul offered God’s answer to all these questions? I think so.
Edited to add: You will know that you have gotten to the end of the relevant content in the recording when you hear the words "Paul is dead." Or maybe it is "God is dead." I'm not sure. But it is definitely one of those two.
Nam:
Any number of people can twist something of the past and make it relevant today.
Was Paul Greek?
-Nam
Quesi:
--- Quote from: Nam on August 03, 2012, 10:46:36 AM ---Any number of people can twist something of the past and make it relevant today.
Was Paul Greek?
-Nam
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I'm afraid that I don't know. However, Jesus and his buddies spoke Aramaic. But god wanted the NT written in Greek. For better accuracy.
stuffin:
--- Quote from: Nam on August 03, 2012, 10:46:36 AM ---Any number of people can twist something of the past and make it relevant today.
Was Paul Greek?
-Nam
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I find it aggravating, no nauseating, how the xians can pick the particular bible or particular tranlation (language) to manipulate their interpretation. I agree, with that much room to manuever you can make the bible say anything.
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