{"id":28878,"date":"2017-12-15T06:48:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T11:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28878"},"modified":"2017-12-15T06:48:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T11:48:48","slug":"what-about-our-debts-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28878","title":{"rendered":"What About Our Debts, Pope Francis?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What About Our Debts, Pope Francis?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s Satan who leads us into temptation \u2013 that\u2019s his department.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week the Holy Pontiff, Pope Francis, said he believed that the line \u201cLead us not into temptation\u201d in the Lord\u2019s Prayer had been wrongly translated in English from the original language of the Bible.\u00a0 Pope Francis told Italian Catholic television channel TV2000 that it was not a good translation \u201cbecause it speaks of a God who induces temptation\u201d. He suggested that the words be amended worldwide to something similar to that being used by France\u2019s Roman Catholic Church as an alternative: \u201cDo not let us fall into temptation\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Do not let me fall into temptation\u2019 because it is I who fall. It is not God who throws me into temptation and then sees how I fell,\u201d he said. \u201cA father doesn\u2019t do that; a father helps you to get up immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ah yes, the good old \u2018Our Father\u2019!\u00a0 That prayer you learned to recite at an early age, and used to rattle off in church and school assemblies. \u00a0You probably know it by heart \u2013 or think you do.<\/p>\n

Not everyone is happy with the Pope\u2019s suggested amendment. The New York Times quotes Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president R. Albert Mohler Jr as being shocked by the idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the Lord\u2019s Prayer. It is not, and has never been, the Pope\u2019s prayer, and we have the very words of Jesus in the New Testament. It is those very words that the Pope proposes to change. It is not only deeply problematic; it\u2019s almost breath-taking.\u201d\u00a0Changing the words of Jesus, hmm?\u00a0 As recounted in Matthew 6:9-13, the so-called \u201cLord\u2019s Prayer\u201d was taught to his disciples as an example of how they should pray.\u00a0 It is memorized by Christians at an early age, and chorally chanted in schools and churches every day, blithely (and wrongly) believing they are quoting the very words of Jesus.<\/p>\n

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What About Our Debts, Pope Francis? \u201cIt\u2019s Satan who leads us into temptation \u2013 that\u2019s his department.\u201d Last week the Holy Pontiff, Pope Francis, said he believed that the line \u201cLead us not into temptation\u201d in the Lord\u2019s Prayer had been wrongly translated in English from the original language of the Bible.\u00a0 Pope Francis told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5493,195,17506,17505,17509,17508,17507],"class_list":["post-28878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-counterpunch","tag-debt","tag-lords-prayer","tag-michael-dickinson","tag-mistranslation","tag-translation","tag-trespasses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28879,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28878\/revisions\/28879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}