A Greek Lesson for Dick

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>EDWARDS

>Actually, these teachings are characteristically Cynical.  Strange how few

>xians go to the trouble of searching for parallels between the alleged

>teachings of jesus and other philosophies/religions.


DICK
t's refreshing to find the x cross symbol of Christ's
death and resurrection used in your writings. Xians or
anyone else who finds the truth hardly need go looking
elsewhere. Why would you imagine that Jesus was the sole
source of truth? The truth can be found by anyone who
looks for it, not just Jesus. Some truth is found in all
religions since most are at least seeking God.

EDWARDS
Dick, I hate to be the one to break the news to you, but the x had nothing
to do with the cross.  The word "Christ" is spelled, in Greek, as
chi-rho-iota-sigma-tau-omicron-sigma.  The scribes who copied the books of
the NT occasionally abbreviated words, the word "Christ" being one of them.
The abbreviation for "Christ" was, in the earliest times, the Greek letters
chi-rho with a bar across the top.  In some uses, the abbreviation was
shortened even more as simply capital chi, which, you may recall, is
identical in appearance to our "X".  The letter X thus denotes, in proper
context, "Christ" and has nothing to do with the cross, suffering, etc., ad
infinitum, ad nauseam.

To paraphrase the otherwise imminently forgettable words of a certain recent
addition to this list, you have a lot to learn about the Bible and about the
meanings of some Greek words, including their etymological implications,
before you have any hope of discussing this intelligently or critically.

And on that happy note, I shall implement my new kill-file rule and wish you
the very best of luck as you sally forth in search of new audiences before
which you can parade your intellect, learning, wealth, and young wife.

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