User talk:Nathan spooner

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September 2024

Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contribution(s). However, as a general rule, while user talk pages permit a small degree of generalisation, other talk pages such as Talk:Trinity are strictly for discussing improvements to their associated main pages, and many of them have special instructions on the top. They are not a general discussion forum about the article's topic or any other topic. If you have questions or ideas and are not sure where to post them, consider asking at the Teahouse. Thanks. tgeorgescu (talk) 01:28, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use talk pages for inappropriate discussions, as you did at Talk:Trinity. tgeorgescu (talk) 17:02, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aramaic and New Testament

On Talk:Trinity, we've kind of discussed that issue out, and decided that it's not too relevant to the Trinity article in the over two months since you posted to that page. You should look at that discussion. Aramaic was certainly the SPOKEN lingua france of Judea, Galilee, and certain adjoining areas, but Greek was the broader spoken AND written lingua franca of the whole Eastern Mediterranean area... AnonMoos (talk) 10:16, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So I guess the multiple instances of Luke, John and Paul speaking of writing to others (with no mention of any writing in Greek) is just not enough to open the possibility that the New Testament could have been written in Aramaic. How come no one is able to demonstrate instances of Jesus or the disciples speaking in a language other than their native tongue? Nathan spooner (talk) 16:00, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Luke and Acts were written by someone with "a more polished Greek" and with a lesser occurrence of clumsy translationese or awkward "Semitisms", indicating those books were very unlikely to be composed in Aramaic. The main Wikipedia article is Aramaic original New Testament theory. I wonder why you didn't discuss things there, rather than at the peripherally-revelant Trinity article... AnonMoos (talk) 17:42, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Stop adding to the wrong section

We have a talk page subsection on female entity in the Trinity. Add remarks about that topic to that sectoon of the page. AnonMoos (talk) 01:38, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]