Immanuel means "With Us Is God" (
Matthew 1:23) Jesus corresponds to the Hebrew name Jeshua (or, in fuller form, Jehoshua), meaning “Jehovah Is Salvation.” So it wasn't just the name but the meaning of the name of the one bearing it
Sorry, but I just alluded to this practice of changing the apparent meaning of words when it seems necessary. As with every other book, I take the words at face value. If it was meant that Immanuel should be understood as an epithet instead of a name, that should have been clearly stated.
Besides, Jesus doesn't meet the Old Testament criteria for the messiah in many other ways.
Perhaps you see the wrong kinds of improvement? In your bubble those things are probably important as you sip your wine overlooking your nice view in a country you have inhabited for 10 years without even bothering to learn the language.
LOL. You really dislike me, don't you? I don't see any kind of improvement as wrong, and certainly not the kinds of improvements I cited for you earlier, which you still can't say a single good word about.
My Spanish has been coming along since we got here, and I am able to communicate most ideas related to daily life. The barriers we encounter is that most Mexicans that we encounter and converse with are trying to learn English better - they get some in school, but not enough to be hired for jobs that serve a large population of English-only speakers - and so we help by speaking English to them. The fact is, though, that nobody needs to speak Spanish here to function, and so many don't have a incentive to learn, nor get the practice that immersion offers. Plus, there's all of the modern translation software that came in handy in a Guadalajaran hospital, where all physicians but less than half of the nurses spoke English.
But still, I want to be more fluent for two reasons. First, just out of respect for this country and its people, and secondly because becoming bilingual is one of only two items on my bucket list - perhaps the only one if you count an original 60 page syllabus on a particular contract bridge convention a book. It's sold less than a hundred copies, but it is only available in my bridge club, and mostly of interest to newer players..
You have your paradise, but you had to find it in someone else's country.....you didn't like your own so you moved.
That's correct. We chose to move out of America before we chose to move into Mexico. But now, we are so happy here that we would stay even if America resolved all of our objections to it and became an attractive place to live like it was when I was younger. Incidentally, we are waiting to hear from the Mexican government regarding our citizenship applications, which are completed and pending consideration. We had to pass a language test, but it was basic, such as what was it that we like about Mexico - simple answers, basic grammar and vocabulary. "We like the people, culture, beauty, climate, and food" is pretty easy in Spanish. Two of the words look like their English counter[[arts - cultura y clima.
Democracies are a myth actually. Did you get to watch the video I posted...? Old but interesting....
Thanks, but I rarely look at the videos on Religious Forums unless they are offered as evidentiary support for a claim or argument a poster has presented.
Democracy is a complex topic now, and can mean different things to different people. How often are we told that a constitutional republic is not a democracy. The pretense of democracy even with rigged elections and a Congress indifferent to so much of what its constituents want is still better than what the West had before the Enlightenment, which was authroitarian monarchy.
That's not true, but the opposite is true for you. As I said, I rattled off a list of about a dozen major improvements in the human condition, and you couldn't find a single good word to say about any of it.
