Re: [sword-devel] Copyrighting The Bible? sue Christians?

2001-08-28 Thread PAProphet
In a message dated 8/28/2001 9:29:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It has come to my attention that false rumors are circulating, in  both oral and written form, that the NIV is soft on sodomy (that  is, homosexual sins). The alleged reason for this is that some  NIV tra

Re: [sword-devel] ModDisp improvements

2001-08-28 Thread Jerry Hastings
At 06:02 PM 8/25/2001 -0700, Chris Little wrote: >Let me know if you spot any bugs or if there is more info you think should >go in there. I already know that reported sizes are incorrect >sometimes. And the script should be reporting when a module has Strong's, >morphology, footnotes, or he

Re: [sword-devel] Copyrighting The Bible?

2001-08-28 Thread Mike Sangrey
To back up Don Elbourne's comment regarding Dr. Virginia Mollenkott, let me quote Dr. Kenneth Barker, Executive Director of the NIV Translation Center: It has come to my attention that false rumors are circulating, in both oral and written form, that the NIV is soft on sodomy (that is, hom

RE: [sword-devel] Copyrighting The Bible?

2001-08-28 Thread Don A. Elbourne Jr.
> >those involved in translation, has lost the vision of trying to > get the word > >out, and has become simply a quest to make money. Then the > tendency will be > >to make "acceptable" translations that make money rather than > accurate ones. What Bible translations are done as quests just to

RE: [sword-devel] Copyrighting The Bible?

2001-08-28 Thread Nathan Gundlach
Hi John-- My comments are below. At 06:47 PM 8/27/2001, you wrote: > Dear Nathan, > > I think the scriptural principle of not muzzling the ox would > have bearing >here. In this digital age it is quite easy for people to copy something >that is being sold and get it for free. T

[sword-devel] Sword bot for mIRC?

2001-08-28 Thread Don A. Elbourne Jr.
Has anyone worked on a Sword based bot for Mirc? I've seen Chris Little's TCL for eggdrop/diatheke, but I don't think TCL will work from within mIRC. Don A. Elbourne Jr. http://elbourne.org

RE: [sword-devel] Copyrighting The Bible?

2001-08-28 Thread Brandy Infinger
In principal I agree with you entirely. However, I would hardly call hunders of millions of dollars muzzling. Perhaps the ox needs a diet? ...b >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Gardner) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [sword-devel] Copyrighting The Bible? >D

RE: [sword-devel] swbyteswap.h

2001-08-28 Thread Chris Little
> I don't know about Solaris but byteswap.h is on Debian Sparc, so the > #ifdef PPC isn't needed. byteswap.h is part of glibc, so it should be present on any GNU system (and it probably won't be present on Solaris). We've got a few different options here, since really the only thing that keeps S

[sword-devel] swbyteswap.h

2001-08-28 Thread Daniel Glassey
I don't know about Solaris but byteswap.h is on Debian Sparc, so the #ifdef PPC isn't needed. I'm fairly sure that'll fix a longstanding problem, thanks Chris for your work on PowerPC :) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=103732&repeatmerged=yes Would it be possible to make anot