On a cursory look this morning at the french term for ‘Christian singles’ I found it translates to; Célibataires chrétiens. This should be very interesting to most Christians, as it appears that the french word for ‘single‘ appears to be our english equivalent word for ‘celibate’ if I’m not mistaken.
Call me old fashioned but even the liberal – anything goes french seem to have once seen a ‘single’ person clearly as someone that did not only not have have a partner – but it’s greater meaning was someone who had no physical intimacy with the opposite sex. What does this tell us about how times have changed!
Language nuances and meanings never cease to intrigue me!
This reminds me of the fact that in over 100 languages around the world – unknown to most Christians or english Sunday ‘sabbath’ keepers, that the word for Sabbath is actually and literally the word for Saturday (yes – even now in 2017!)
It’s incredibly interesting that often times words themselves hold the key to what life was like in the past and how we used to live. Words – and changing their meanings, also appears to be our enemy’s greatest means to deceive people – to take a word (or thing) and change or literally hijack it’s history, meaning or appearance.
We have hundreds of examples; one might be that the rainbow used to be a symbol of God’s wrath on a decadent society, and another of course would be The Devil himself – once feared by believers and even non-believers alike – but nowadays is consigned along with the Bible and Jesus resurrection to ‘myth’ status and cartootnised as a little man in red pants and a pitch fork.
So wherever possible we need to keep hold of our words and treasure their original meanings.
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