Firefly Show Bible?

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UPDATED: Saturday, March 25, 2006 22:55
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FORRESTER11

Saturday, October 30, 2004 12:15 AM

With all due respect. I have in the original
languages the Textus Receptus and Nestle Alland
New Testaments in the Greek. And the Majoretic
OT in the Hebrew and Septuagint OT in the Greek.
The Latin Vulgate you allude to is not as accurate
and accepted as the texts I mention above.
Sorry you are wrong on all accounts.

Biblical
Scholar

ROCKETJOCK

Saturday, October 30, 2004 5:01 AM

Not to get too far into the (Christian) biblical topic, but I'd like to point out that the actual birthdate of Jesus couldn't be December 25th. Why? Because "there were shepherds abiding in the fields;" grazing their flock, in other words.

The one time of the year when shepherds wouldn't be grazing their sheep would be the dead of winter.

It's one of those obvious answers to a controversial question; like whether the Shroud of Turin is Christ's burial cloth or not. If you believe in the accuracy of the bible, it can't be. Why? Because the bible says he was covered by two separate cloths, one for his body, the other for his face. The Shroud of Turin being one piece, it can't be the real article.

Oh, and a last word of advice for any non-christians living in America. Get a good red-letter editon of the Bible (the type where the words of Christ of Nazareth are printed in red ink), and study it. As a practicing Pagan, I can state from personal experience that the best defense against the more irrational breeds of Bible-thumpers is to know the book better than they do. Especially Matthew 6, verses five and six.

"Hermanos! The Devil has built a robot! Andale!" -- Numero Cinco

FORRESTER11

Monday, November 1, 2004 9:19 PM

These are all irrelevant. The Bible never says
that Christ's birthdate is Dec. 25th,it's just a traditional date for the celebration, nor does
it say that the Shroud of Turin is authentic.
So this adds up to non argument. Frankly I agree
about not going too far into a Biblical argument-
this isn't the place and it's way off topic,
which is why I did not go into academic details in my previous post.
The response was to correct erroneous facts.
Oh and there is nothing in Matthew to cause any
problems either.

BROWNCOATSOLDIER

Friday, April 29, 2005 8:02 PM

Quote:
Orginally posted by RocketJock:
Not to get too far into the (Christian) biblical topic, but I'd like to point out that the actual birthdate of Jesus couldn't be December 25th. Why? Because "there were shepherds abiding in the fields;" grazing their flock, in other words.

The one time of the year when shepherds wouldn't be grazing their sheep would be the dead of winter.

Oh, and a last word of advice for any non-christians living in America. Get a good red-letter editon of the Bible (the type where the words of Christ of Nazareth are printed in red ink), and study it. As a practicing Pagan, I can state from personal experience that the best defense against the more irrational breeds of Bible-thumpers is to know the book better than they do. Especially Matthew 6, verses five and six.

Numero Cinco/B]

exucse me if im wrong , but , "dead of winter" ?Since when is december winter in the middle east?

YT

Saturday, May 7, 2005 2:19 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Misguided By Voices:
And of course, its his script and not the episode that won the Hugo (though the fact the filmed episode didn't turn out too badly probably helped a great deal).

Don't be confused by the fact that the award was given to Harlan, rather than sent to Gene Rodenberry, "City on the Edge of Forever" won for dramatic presentation, in the year of eligibility for the broadcast ep. Few if any of the Hugo voters had seen the script, which was not published 'til later. This was still early days for the category (first won by Twilight Zone, three years -- the show, not any particular ep -- then no awards 'til "Menagerie", Star Trek, not the writer), the rules were still "fluid", and Harlan was already famous as a fan & published author. Rules were rewritten later to make it clear that the Dramatic Presentation award was for the presentation, not the script.

Keep the Shiny Side Up . . . (wutzon) Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Crossroads", from "One More For the Road"

JEREELHUNTER

Saturday, May 7, 2005 4:25 AM

Ever since the Middle East snuck into the Northern Hemisphere. It's been there a while now.

SYMON

Thursday, May 19, 2005 6:10 PM

That's a good idea. I'm not going to take the time to read how it got to the topis of the real bible, but I'd love to see a firefly one.

--Captain of Gratitude
-Symon Silver

GAMERCHICK

Friday, May 20, 2005 9:22 PM

There's another very good Firefly wiki at http://www.fireflywiki.org - good enough to use as a story bible. And they need passionate Firefly fanatics to help build their content.

Medic

Serenity - Ain't Nothin' Restful About It!

R1Z

Tuesday, August 2, 2005 4:11 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Drakon:
I want the show's bible too. Just started attempting to write fan fic, and it would of great help, (along with a chinese swearing dictionary) I have heard tell that the map that is used has been auctioned off on E-bay, but whoever bought it has not scanned it and posted it yet.

. . .

"My kind of stupid"

I've never seen a chinese swearing dictionary, but you can learn the Firefly Chinese, including the vulgar bits here: http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/

And let's all agree never to use the word "bible" in a post again.

To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. --Robt. Heinlein

RABBIT2

Wednesday, March 15, 2006 8:54 PM

Since there is an RPG game available, that might be a useful source of background material.
Im not sure how `cannon` the information is though.

Apparently, when Lucusfilm first decided to allow the publication of new fiction set in the Star Wars universe they just passed on the sourcebooks from the old West End Games SW RPG on to authors like Timothy Zahn.
So there is a good precedent for doing this.

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