Christianese Substitutions Part 3 – “Hell”

This is part 3 in a list of words that are Greek, or transliterated directly from Greek, but in this case are translated by a different word – “hell” – even though the Hebrew and Greek words have actual meanings of their own. Also check out “What is Hell?” by Br. Lawrence Damien elsewhere on this…

Christianese Substitutions Part 2 – Names Etc.

This set of documents is a list of words that are Greek, or transliterated directly from Greek, or are OLD and do not belong in the Bible. This second part is mostly about names. Even the word “scripture” just means “writings” and the word “Bible” just means “library of writings.” Why not speak clearly in regular…

Christianese Substitutions Part 1

This is a list of words that are Greek, or transliterated directly from Greek, or are OLD and do not belong in the Bible.  Even the word “scripture” just means “writings” and the word “Bible” just means “library of writings.” Why not speak clearly in regular English (or whatever modern language) instead of creating a…

Christianity Breakdown

Here is a summary of Christianity as i understand it now. You can also check out my Christianity page on my old website (which badly needs to be updated). And i really love the site YHWH.com; wish i wrote it myself! I tried to summarize this all in a few key sentences, but this is the best I could do,…

About Me – Tom Minkler

To start, you can check out All About Me: A Short Spiritual History on my original website that i hand-coded in HTML around the year 2000 (and the rest of the website is accessible from there). As everything there was written so long ago it is hopefully more immature than i am now  ? and is written somewhat “off the cuff.”…