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Originally Posted by reign413
Have you all ever heard of being a Babe in Christ? It's actually stated in the Word as such! Was Jesus talking about a sexually attractive female or was He speaking of those who are "New" to the faith??
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A) Yes, I'm quite familiar with those passages.
B) Jesus wasn't talking about anything. It was Paul, John and the writer of Hebrews who use the term.
C) None of them said "babe" because none of them spoke English. It was the translators of the King James Version who translated
teknion and
paidion as "babes."
D) Few if any modern translations use "babes"; they use "infants" instead. There is a very good reason for that -- in contemporary American English "babe" is almost never used to mean "infant" and typically carries a romantic or sexual connotation.
E) Anyone using "babe" or "babes" or {shudder} "babez" in contemporary America should anticipate that most people will read or hear it exactly the way people in this thread have.