Posted on 04/29/2008 9:50:17 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi Says She Heard Disputed Bible Verse from Priest By Pete Winn CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer April 29, 2008
(CNSNews.com) - The office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told Fox News last week that Pelosi heard the disputed Bible "passage" she used in her April 22 Earth Day message from a priest in San Francisco.
Brit Hume reported last Thursday on "Special Report with Brit Hume" that Pelosi's office had told Fox News that the Speaker had "heard a priest quote the verse many years ago during a mass in San Francisco."
On Thursday, Friday, and again on Monday, however, the Speaker's office did not respond to requests for comment made by Cybercast News Service , which first reported on Wednesday, April 23 that biblical scholars have cast doubt on the authenticity of the passage.
In her news release, Pelosi said the quote - 'To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us' - came from the Old Testament.
Biblical scholars told Cybercast News Service that the quote does not appear anywhere in the Bible--Old or New Testament. Moreover, they say nothing similar can be found in Scripture.
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Quote of the day material! Truly LOL (in the middle of my office no less). ;-)
Plastic face is full of rat shiite!
Such a transparent lie.
Sure, Sure, Nancy! That’s in the book of algore, the part defining earth zealotry....
How about, “Power is both a means and an end”?
Google is your friend.
If you Google the verse, you will find dozens of hits that confirm that the verse comes from the Gospel according to Pelosi.
I am now off to Google the Apostle Pelosi.
No results found for "Apostle Pelosi".
Damn!! Something must be wrong with Google today.
In an article posted yesterday the author gave this quote and attributed it to the book of Proverbs:
“It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt”
A proverb indeed but not from “Proverbs”.
That is not in the King James version either.
Of course that's not in Proverbs, that's II Hezekiah 13:4.
Hardly.
That's for sure.
Now that’s comedy!!!
I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book. - Revelations 22:18
She lies.
It is so very wonderful to have her in the public eye. One cannot imagine a more vapid, shallow, or really stupid individual. Now, let’s add to that the fact that she’s actually an elected official - and one could be come very worried about our country. Mind exercise: Imagine there were no politics. What, exactly, could this bimbo do for a living? Prostitution is most definitely out.
Nope.
The Old Testament was mostly taken from the Hebrew Rabbinic Bible by Daniel Bomberg, except for places where the Christian tradition had attached a Christological interpretation. They then switched to the Greek Septuagint or Latin Vulgate versions. Examples are Psalm 22:16 "they pierced my hands and my feet" and Isaiah 7:14 "Behold, a virgin shall conceive..."
The New Testament was based on the Textus Receptus by Desiderius Erasmus, a translation from Greek into Latin. Erasmus used several Greek manuscript sources because he did not have access to a single complete manuscript.
The Apocrypha were translated from the Greek Septuagint. We know this because the Apocrypha was permitted to have margin notes which identified the source.
The Old & New Testaments were denied the luxury of margin notes by the Bishop of London. This was intended to limit the Puritan influence on the new translation.
The thing is Nancy, this doesn't even sound like the Bible. The "needs of God's creation"? Seriously, no.
It's like that so-obviously-made-up Shakespeare quote you libs were trying to foist off on us that didn't have ANY rhythmic structure whatever.
Proof that she has never cracked a Bible. I have read it through exactly once; and, to my shame, do not read it often; but even I know that the above ain't no Bible quote.
Must have been an Episcopal Priest...
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