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stephan huller · 03-09-2012, 11:19 AM

Of course if you haven't a clue about Hebrew and your only point in participating in this formula is to 'debunk' Christianity you likely won't be interested in this. Nevertheless the yashar = Israel formula is found in the assumptions of the earliest translators of the Bible (it doesn't matter that it doesn't actually work as an etymology - although Samaritan doesn't distinguish between sin and shin):

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Further, His righteousness cried, If you come straight to me, I also will come straight to you but if you walk crooked, I also will walk crooked, says the Lord of hosts; meaning by the crooked ways the chastisements of sinners. For the straight and natural way which is indicated by the Iota of the name of Jesus is His goodness, which is firm and sure towards those who have believed at hearing [Strom 1.9]

stephan huller · 03-09-2012, 11:24 AM

And then in Book Two:

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So that the right food is thanksgiving. And he who gives thanks does not occupy his time in pleasures. And if we would persuade any of our fellow-guests to virtue, we are all the more on this account to abstain from those dainty dishes; and so exhibit ourselves as a bright pattern of virtue, such as we ourselves have in Christ. For if any of such meats make a brother to stumble, I shall not eat it as long as the world lasts, says he, that I may not make my brother stumble. 1 Corinthians 8:13 I gain the man by a little self-restraint. Have we not power to eat and to drink? 1 Corinthians 9:14 And we know— he says the truth— that an idol is nothing in the world; but we have only one true God, of whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus. But, he says, through your knowledge your weak brother perishes, for whom Christ died; and they that wound the conscience of the weak brethren sin against Christ. Thus the apostle, in his solicitude for us, discriminates in the case of entertainments, saying, that if any one called a brother be found a fornicator, or an adulterer, or an idolater, with such an one not to eat; 1 Corinthians 5:11 neither in discourse or food are we to join, looking with suspicion on the pollution thence proceeding, as on the tables of the demons. It is good, then, neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine, Romans 14:21 as both he and the Pythagoreans acknowledge. For this is rather characteristic of a beast; and the fumes arising from them being dense, darken the soul. If one partakes of them, he does not sin. Only let him partake temperately, not dependent on them, nor gaping after fine fare. For a voice will whisper to him, saying, Destroy not the work of God for the sake of food. Romans 14:20

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