u/No-Charity9849

1000000000% convinced now that the trinity is absolute bollocks

Do you ever wonder?

The issue gives me truly no rest, I think about it almost every day if not every day. Imagine if none of this is real and we are all just worm food. How do atheists cope? Do they tell themselves something else that brings them peace? If so, what?

I have SM7dB and it sounds pretty good on teams, much better than my jabra engage 50 ii.

Wondering if MV7+ would sound even better since supposedly it's desinged for that type of stuff (plug and play, no post processing etc)

I've been looking into modern Bible translations and, based on recommendations from many academically minded Christians and biblical scholars, I'm seriously considering purchasing the NRSVue. From what I've read, one of its goals is to incorporate advances in textual criticism, linguistics, and manuscript studies since the publication of the NRSV.

However, while comparing passages, I came across a change in Genesis 1 that left me wondering about the translation philosophy behind it.

NRSVue

Genesis 1:5 — "God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day."

Genesis 1:8 — "God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day."

RSV

Genesis 1:5 — "God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day."

Genesis 1:8 — "And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day."

I'm particularly interested in two changes:

1. The shift from "one day" / "a second day" to "the first day" / "the second day."
2. The replacement of "firmament" or "Heaven" with "dome" and "Sky."

My questions are:

• Are these changes driven by new scholarship regarding the underlying Hebrew?
• Do they reflect a different understanding of how ancient Israelites viewed the cosmos?
• Is there a scholarly consensus that these renderings are more accurate than those found in the RSV?
• For those familiar with biblical Hebrew, what is gained (or potentially lost) by these translation choices?

I'm not looking to argue for one translation over another; I'm genuinely interested in understanding the linguistic and textual reasoning behind these updates. If anyone is familiar with the NRSVue translation committee's rationale or relevant scholarship, I'd appreciate the insight.

Which is expected to sound better? At about double the cost including the required interface, you would expect SM7dB

What do you think?

MV7+ is zoom and teams certified. Not sure what that means.

I was thinking about lavalier microphones or condenser microphones. Can you recommend me one?

Or will the SM7db still work fine about 30 cm away from the mouth?

He repeatedly goes on long and passionate rants about Cain, which can be summarized as "Cain was a bad guy, and his offer wasn't sincere and it was half assed, that is why it was rejected. Abel was sincere and gave his best efforts, that's why it was accepted."

Yet there's nothing in the text to support that assertion. The story strongly implies quite the opposite in fact. Here is the correct analysis. Cains offer, despite being the fruit of hard anf honest labor, was rejected because hard labor to produce fruit was itself the curse that had come upon man in Genesis 3.

Genesis 3:17-19 [17]And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; [18]and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. [19]In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.

Abel on the other hand offered an animal which was a product of God's grace and did not take Abel much effort to produce. The point here being that Cain's offer was refused because it was a cursed offer despite his best efforts and we are not redeemed by works but by the Grace of God.

This is the true lesson, I think Jordan Peterson needs to go to Bible school as he is just talking nonsense imho.

Quoting the Bible boastfully is not the same thing as actually doing it. So tell me, how do we do it?

My neighbors are very irritating to me, especially the ones with barking dogs fill me with disgust and contempt.

How then, will I be saved?

It's all very concerning really. Any thoughts on the matter?

I've been wondering about this for some time. What is the majority modern scholarly position on this matter?

I also think it's intellectually dishonest when trinitarian apologists, while debating atheists, appeal to authority and mention Isaac Newton as a great intellectual scientific Christian, but the next day they will boldly claim that unitarians are not Christians.

I AM a unitarian btw.