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Idea shorts
1. Idea shorts
Here is a place for short ideas that will be expanded at some point in the future. As such, the content will change often.
Multiple links to the same page means that there are multiple sub-topics covered as short ideas on those pages.
2. Textus Receptus
The name
TR = Textus Receptus means "
received text" and sometimes called the "
majority text" (a misnomer). This was originally compiled by the Dutchman Desiderius Erasmus in 1516 and used for the basis of translations such as the
KJV = King James Version.
Tyndale used this Greek translation as the basis for his translation. Other translations include the Spanish "
Reina-Valera" and the Russian "
Synodal Bible". In some places, lacking complete Greek manuscripts, Erasmus used the Latin Vulgate to back-translate (i.e., fabricating) some of the
TR.
Starting in 1894, Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (and later others) began to modify the
TR to make it more in line with the
KJV.
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Details are left as a future topic.
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3. Textus Receptus and model breaking
The
TR often adds or changes (or removes) words that break a model of the underlying passage. Detecting this requires recognizing that a model exists and then how that model is broken with the changes.
Recognizing models or patterns help establish the semantic meaning of the passage in a fault-tolerant error-correcting way such that changes to the text that break the model or pattern become more evident.
This content is a start at consolidating some examples of this model-breaking in the
GNT (Greek New Testament).
... more to be added ...
4. Etiology: etymons and cognates
5. Human computer adaptations
User interfaces: At one time, computers were expensive (and limited in power) and people were (relatively) inexpensive.
Adapt the person to the computer. Example: command line interface.
As time went on, computers were inexpensive (and had a lot more power) and people were (relatively) much more expensive.
Adapt the computer to the person. Example: GUI (Graphical User Interface)
Bible analogy: Which is better? Explain.
Should people adapt to the Bible translation? That is, always translate "into" as "into" instead and let the person adapt to what "into" means in, say, Greek.
Should the Bible translation adapt to the person? That is, translators should decide on what they think the meaning of a word is and use an English word that means what they think the text means.
[useful psychology]
6. Sentiment analysis
Sentiment analysis attempts to determine if textual comments are
positive,
negative, or
neutral - or some other semantic grouping. This is difficult in the following examples.
That pizza was terribly good.
That pizza was awfully bad.
Discuss: How does one determine if textual (or spoken) comments are "
blasphemy"?
Only those who understand that teaching is
false teaching get
upset at
false teaching. To others, the
false teaching sounds like
true teaching. Those in the congregation may tell a visitor something like, "
Our pastor teaches right from the Bible. Isn't he good."
7. A report of speaking good in a famous way
8. Matthew 13:26 Planted blasphemy
The wheat and the weeds or tares spring up in the second kingdom parable.
Matthew 13:26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. [kjv]
οτε δε εβλαστησεν ο χορτος και καρπον εποιησεν τοτε εφανη και τα ζιζανια [gnt]
The Greek word for
"sprung up" or
"sprouted" can be a play on words with
"spoken blasphemy".
"βλαστός" ≈ "sprout, shoot, bud, offspring".
"εβλαστήσεν" ≈ "sprouted, sprung up".
"βλασφημία" ≈ "word of evil omen, defamation, speech against God"
The "
weeds" or "
tares" who
"blaspheme" are
"planted" by the "
evil one" or, from the previous parable, the
"birds".
9. Matthew 26:65 Spoken blasphemy
Matthew 26:65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy. [kjv]
τοτε ο αρχιερευς διερρηξεν τα ιματια αυτου λεγων εβλασφημησεν τι ετι χρειαν εχομεν μαρτυρων ιδε νυν ηκουσατε την βλασφημιαν [gnt]
Clothing was
expensive.
Sometimes the high priest sometimes had to
rent his
"clothes". In modern times, the idea of "
renting" clothes would be similar to someone (e.g., a coach mad at a call) throwing down his cell phone.
Deciding whether to call someone to rent clothes might be considered a close call!
10. Book: Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics
Title: Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics
Author: William Lane Craig
Publisher: Crossway; 3rd edition (June 9, 2008)
ISBN: 978-1433501159
Description:
His approach-that of positive apologetics-gives careful attention to crucial questions and concerns, including: the relationship of faith and reason, the existence of God, the problems of historical knowledge and miracles, the personal claims of Christ, and the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus. He shows that there is good reason to think Christianity is true. As Craig says, "If you have a sound and persuasive case for Christianity, you don't have to become an expert in comparative religions and Christian cults. A positive justification of the Christian faith automatically overwhelms all competing world views lacking an equally strong case." Amazon.com (as of 2025-03-13)
11. Error correcting codes
A code is a way to encode a language and is concerned not directly with meaning but with preserving the integrity of a message from source or sender to target or recipient.
An
ECC (Error Correcting Code) is a code that contains redundancy in some form such that that redundancy can be used to detect and/or correct errors in the message from source to target.
The key idea is that controlled
redundancy is added to detect and/or correct transmission errors.
[check digits, parity codes, Hamming codes, etc.]
[bar codes, credit card numbers]
[
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)]
12. Fault tolerance using even parity
Error detection and correction requires controlled
redundancy.
Discuss: How does
Hebrew use
redundancy to allow error detection and correction? For example, in Psalms, Proverbs, etc. [sound bites]
Discuss: How does
Jesus use
redundancy to allow error detection and correction? For example, Matthew 15, Matthew 18, etc.
[
TR]
13. Fault tolerance correction using even parity
If the bit in error is known, a single-bit error can be corrected.
Fault tolerance detection and correction at the bit level can be extended to a collection of drives each with a huge number bits.
Even parity will detect a one bit error and allow correction if the bit in error can be identified (e.g., a
RAID).
14. Acronyms
15. Error correcting codes
An
ECC is customized for the physical reality in which it will be used.
The human DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) code has many fault-tolerant and error correcting properties.
Human communication incorporates many fault-tolerant and error correcting properties.
Discuss: Why does the Bible text need to be viewed as a logical system that needs to be accurate or invariant in every aspect of the text in order for the underlying message to be clear?
DNA has limited copy error correction at the lowest level (i.e., via other molecular copying engines). There are other error correction systems at higher levels (e.g., healing from a non-fatal injury).
A simple ECC for credit cards uses a check digit. One must scan or type again if an error is detected.
A simple ECC for DNA copying, if not correctable, requires that the copy be restarted.
[spell checker, backup system]
[teachers saying the same thing in different ways]
16. Summary
The following links are to topics that appeared in this content at some point in time.
Parts that are not links are topics that need moved to an appropriate page.
17. Handouts related to the TenWordPin model
18. Play on words
19. Puzzles
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