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To: Dr. Eckleburg; kosta50; Alamo-Girl; hosepipe; cornelis; xzins; TXnMA; .30Carbine
You, for some reason, place your faith in other men and fallible groups of men and an intricate and imperfect system of Greek nomenclature while decrying the ability of the Holy Spirit to move whom He wills where He wills.

So please do not feed into this trend, dear sister in Christ.

Certainly it's true that the Spirit bloweth wherever it list, and no man can see its comings and goings....

Also kosta moves in this Holy Spirit. So that makes us brother and sisters in Jesus Christ.

Then there was the disparagement of Greek "nomenclature," which I think is unjust. Arguably, the Greeks knew about the Logos before the Christians did.

Yet it all works to God's Purpose, in the End, for which the Beginning was made. Jesus Christ, Son of God, is Logos, Alpha, and Omega -- and the Rock on which we stand.

All glory and praise be to God -- "the Lord of Life, with His creatures"!

3,595 posted on 08/21/2007 5:28:51 PM PDT by betty boop ("Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -- A. Einstein)
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To: betty boop
My point was that a knowledge of the Greek language is not a necessary prerequisite for understanding Scripture.

I have faith God can and does preserve His word throughout many languages and translations.

3,604 posted on 08/21/2007 5:58:00 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: betty boop; Dr. Eckleburg; Alamo-Girl; hosepipe; cornelis; xzins; TXnMA; .30Carbine
Also kosta moves in this Holy Spirit. So that makes us brother and sisters in Jesus Christ

Thank you. I don't know what moves me, but I do know that additions to the Bible are corruption. The usual rationalistic excuse provided is that the Comma agrees with other Triniatrian concepts of the Bible. Not true. Nothig is as obviously Trinitarian as this fraudulent insertion. The Church Fathers would have loved to have had it! It would have made their word against heresies of Arius and other Chriostological deformations a piece of cake!

Unfortunately, our fundamentalists insist that Textus Receptus is the "original" text which is about as true as claiming that the earth is really flat (same mentality).

They actually insist that the Comma be inserted into the text not because it wans't in any of the older manuscripts but because it was, get this, in the 16th century TR.

My leaning is that we are dealing here with flat-earth flat-heads.

3,628 posted on 08/21/2007 9:03:03 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: betty boop
Yet it all works to God's Purpose, in the End, for which the Beginning was made. Jesus Christ, Son of God, is Logos, Alpha, and Omega -- and the Rock on which we stand.

All glory and praise be to God -- "the Lord of Life, with His creatures"!

Amen! Praise God!!!

Thank you so very much for sharing all of your insights, dearest sister in Christ!

3,668 posted on 08/22/2007 7:52:17 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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