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Date: March 17, 2021 12:11AM
dogbloggernli Wrote:
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> Can you show a greek to chinese or chinese to
> greek dictionary that corroborates this claim?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao#Christian_Interpretations"In some Chinese translations of the New Testament, λόγος (logos) is translated with the Chinese word dao (道) (e.g. John 1:1), indicating that the translators considered the concept of Tao to be somewhat equivalent to logos in Greek philosophy and the Logos in Christianity."
The original Greek version of the Bible said in John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Logos, the Logos was with God. The Logos was God."
The two are interchangeable in the Bible, God and Logos.
That was mistranslated into English to say, "In the Beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God."
Which completely changes the meaning of that verse.
To the ancient Greeks, especially the Stoics, Logos was much more than, "the Word" it was the divine reason that permeated and animated the cosmos. Kind of like the God Particle, the Higgs Boson.
That word is translated into Chinese in that context as Tao, or Dao, the Way of Nature.
"The Way of Nature" is what Einstein meant when he used the word, "God"
As in "I want to know the mind of God. The rest is just details." or "God does not roll dice with the universe."
But that's where he was wrong, because he refused to accept quantum mechanics, even though he laid the groundwork for quantum physics with his theory of relativity.
God, the rules of nature, do play dice with the universe, all the time on a quantum level. Only the dice affect each other over a long distance and they are affected by our observation of them. We affect the outcome of the god damned dice.