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Does anybody know how the early Catholic Church (say 500AD and earlier) compares with the modern Catholic Church and with the Protestant reformation? For example the prayers to the saints, papal infallibility, infant baptism, purgatory, priests forgiving sins, Mary being sinless etc-were these...

Hello. I’m told there are some Greek speakers here. Does anyone have insight about Revelation 9:21 which in most English translations is “sorcery” but when I look at a lexicon the word pharmakeia is the word is says is from the Greek. To an English speaker the word pharmakeia obviously seems...

My church moved from the ESV to the CSB some time ago. I’m not looking for debate on what the best translation is, I am aware of the common arguments. The CSB uses what it calls optimal equivalence which they say is literal except where a literal rendering would be misunderstood and then they...

I only speak English so I probably will make a fool of myself here over my Greek question but I can’t find a satisfactory answer anywhere. Revelation 9:21 talks of sorceries but when I use a Greek lexicon I find pharmakeia which to an English speaker I would have assumed to be related to...