“How often do you need to say ‘amen’?”
This is kind of a different question, because it’s really
more a matter of etiquette than morality.
Amen is one of those weird words
that is exactly the same whether you’re looking through a Greek or a Hebrew
concordance. It’s a Hebrew word that Greek-speaking Christians in the early
church picked up and used to mean the same thing it meant within Judaism. In
the King James it is often translated as “verily”. It is an affirmation of
agreement. It simply means “indeed”, “so be it” or “absolutely”. Sometimes it
means Yeah, me too. I feel that exact feeling, I think that
exact thing and I want exactly that to happen. “Amen” is
convenient shorthand for all that.
