Anonymous Donor Gives $50M to Translate Bible

Alockslee »

Sat Jul 04, 2009 12:37 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Flagged as inappropriate. show believer »Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:29 pm al, your post is valid to a point and that point is the eternal destiny of others. If your view of that ends at the grave then your point is 100% correct, but if indeed it goes beyond the grave and into eternity then it is imperative we get the readable Word of God to every language group in the world and thus this money is being used in the best way possible so that the lost peoples of this world can read and hear what they must do to not only gain eternal life but most importantly come into a personal relationship with God through Christ. -------------------------------------------------------- In response: Your position actually gets the folks to it more quickly than if they were given the choice once they could think clearly and without the desperation that allows the mind control to be instituted so readily and takes such a long time to cure. So you are saying let them starve and freeze cause they will get to heaven more quickly, yeah tell that to starving people. http://alockslee.blogspot.com/Truth and Reality!! TFR hide

Alockslee »

Sat Jul 04, 2009 12:36 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Flagged as inappropriate. show The very same money could be immediately put to use by using it to buy food and housing for the poor instead of translating the Bible. People need immediate help not another translation that has already been done. Typical among those who want to force their ideology on the rest of the world instead of helping people with what is really needed. People need food, clothing and housing first and they can learn about religion once their immediate needs are met and they can sustain their existence and once that is accomplished they will be in a better position than reading a book while starving and freezing to death or dying due to lack of adequate care leaving no one left to push the ideological agenda which serves little in the way of survival nor replaces the everyday needs of people who need real food and housing BEFORE they worry about another fantasy that offers nothing to sustain the real needs of daily existence. So, use the money for real life needs and leave the people free from having to add another level of self pity in addition to trying to just survive. If the promoters were that serious about the translations let them spend the money on the items above and pray the translation into existence and see which is accomplished first. http://alockslee.blogspot.com/ Truth & Reality in 1 Blog TFR hide

Alockslee »

Fri Jul 03, 2009 3:19 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Flagged as inappropriate. show Cameron »Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:41 pm I salute to the anonymous donor who gave a huge sum of $50 million to Wycliffe Bible Translators. Money is the dearest thing after one's life, giving such sum for the path of Almighty The-God "That is absolutely Credible". ----------------------------------------------------------- In response: No offense intended but money is not the next "dearest thing" after life. Your priorities are askew. As for "The-God" comment, why do so many make statements as if they speak for and on behalf of God? When did you become appointed as spokesperson for God? Where was the world event that proclaimed you as becoming such? Far too many fundies/evangelicals run around proclaiming/witnessing, blathering and not one of you folks ever show any interest in reporting the truth. You are not the spokesperson for anyone but perhaps yourself and being a fundie that is dubious since the mind control inherent in your ideology prevent rational thought and then to make statements that it is this or that like YOU know somehow something others don't and then need to release it on the rest is quite absurd indeed. Save the proclamations for Sundays and the rest of the zombies who parrot the same babble and focus on what is real and what is needed. Not Bibles, o ridiculous fundie propaganda, but food, shelter, medicine and especially the science and education of real things not fantasy based conjecture that the people don't need or they would already be aware of it because God would have already done it. Sorry no offense meant just sick and tired of people wasting time and money when there are needs more important and in priority above hawking ideology when the folks are dropping from disease and malnutrition and fundies want think that bibles will cure them of needing to eat, cure aids, and fix them entirely, well it it did then lets see the fundies pray disease away, pray away world hunger, etc. http://alockslee.blogspot.com/Truth and Reality not fundie conjecture TFR hide

Alockslee »

Fri Jul 03, 2009 3:04 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Flagged as inappropriate. show "Literacy is key to helping people work their way out of poverty and resist oppression by others," said the donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, in a statement released Wednesday. "Children who first learn to read in their own language are more likely to become literate and to stay in school than those who first learn in a different language." ----------------------------------------------------------- In response: Then it is absolutely imperative that the children and the people of the area be taught secular principles first and then once they have been properly immunized against even the possibility of brainwashing by fundamentalists/evangelicals, that they be shown any religious texts or exposed to any religious teaching. That will insure that they not be "oppressed", by any of the fundie/evangelicals rhetoric and be free from their mind control. So if this donor is serious about preventing oppression then they should make sure that the gift is used to carryout the donor's wishes and prevent the indoctrination of any of the fundie propaganda from being given, taught and/or even mentioned before the people are fully able to resist them in their entirety. That way the menace and world domination efforts of the fundies/evangelicals will be further stopped and fascism won't be enabled to spread, thus preventing and combating the 4th Reich which is the core of the secret cabal of the evangelical/fundamentalist movement. http://alockslee.blogspot.com/ The truth about the fundie/evangelical cabal is here!! TFR hide

Keminting »

Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:27 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

It is very interesting that this donor places such a high value on literacy, obviously a primary motivation for his giving, while SIL is being influenced strongly by the orality movement, the "oral Bible", etc. which takes a dim view of literacy in many ways.

gratiaDei777 »

Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:48 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 1

I hope this doesn't discourage people who give slightly smaller amounts. Please, everyone, keep on giving; the Lord knows your circumstance.

wrhalver, in relation to your comment that "God inspired events were passed down by word of mouth.", you may want to take a look at Josh McDowell's Evidence that Demands a Verdict, especially Section 2.

Praise God!!

03081949tap »

Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:50 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Praise the Lord !. It was only last week we read how some aethists were getting their acts together to put up posters on buses, that there was no God in this sinful world of non believers, we do have a powerful Living God to show the world of believers that there are indeed genuine hearts who could contribute such large sums for the work of the Lord in his vineyard... towards human rights, and uplifting the lives of the poor and downtrodden. Bles this soul O Lord !!

ID4234 »

Sun Nov 16, 2008 8:37 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Praise the Lord. What a wonderful day for all Christians. May the work go forward.

wrhalver »

Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:32 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Just a thought here.....

It is said that until Moses wrote the first five books of the Old Covenant, these God inspired events were passed down by word of mouth.

It was by the Holy Spirit that the truth prevailed from generation to generation, and through various language differences.

These events could only have been related so well due to personal experiences.

Again, just a thought....

Cameron »

Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:41 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 2

I salute to the anonymous donor who gave a huge sum of $50 million to Wycliffe Bible Translators. Money is the dearest thing after one's life, giving such sum for the path of Almighty The-God "That is absolutely Credible".

Online4Him »

Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:21 pm Agree: 2   Disagree: 0

Amen;

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come (Matthew 24:14).