Disgraceful

As a beginner student in Greek I was interested when I heard that an online Greek had shut down due to copyright issues.

Basically it seems the German Bible Society shut down the site which was used by heaps of people to spread the Gospel and the Word of God because they owned copyright to the Greek text.

When money rules over proclamation of the Gospel you have to question the heart of the people involved.

So I'm going to add some immaturity to the debate and say the German Bible Society sucks and they should change their mind.

For more mature and indepth analysis of what's going on, see this article by Tim Balyl or comments from a Tassie pastor here

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Apologies

Very sorry about the lack of posts lately. After returning from a holiday I then had about 5 days to get ready for the start of the 2009 school year. This was because I then started doing a Greek Intensive. I'm doing one semesters worth of Greek in three weeks. It's hardcore and I'm doing almost nothing but Greek every day.

During this I've also moved house. I felt pretty proud of myself as I did this on Sat 7th Feb which was the hottest day Melbourne has ever had. My excitement has been somewhat tempered since then as that was also the day of the worst bushfires Australia has ever had (the death toll is close to 200 and may rise to 300 or more). The fires affected some suburbs about 40mins away from where I live. I have friends who know people who have died, and there are a number of people at my church who don't know where some members of their family who live in the affected areas are, or who have lost friends or family or property.

Please pray for all these people. See my friend and colleague's Jono's post on the fires for someones thoughts who has been personally affected by the fires.

I have wiped tears out of my eyes a number of times this week as I've listened to stories on the radio or tv and watched people in grief with no hope...

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Greek!

I am doing a Masters of Divinity at Ridley Melbourne.  I'm studying this part-time (2 subjects a semester).  Next year I am going to be learning Biblical Greek aka Koine Greek...

Well, as of yesterday, when I did a big 6ish hour study session, I've begun studying through this book... 

So far I'm up to Lesson 4.  That means I've learnt the Alphabet, something about dipthongs (when two vowels are together), some verbs and the different way you can end a verb, thus changing the meaning from say, "I loose" to, "They loose".  

I actually kinda enjoyed it...  Let's hope i keep getting the time to really get it cemented into my mind!

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