[Claud]

You do know it is possible to learn another language, any language, with all of its nuances....right?

Have you ever heard of someone learning a second language and then trying to dictate to the *original* speakers what a passage MUST mean? Despite unanimous opinion to the contrary?

Because that's exactly what you are doing. You are saying the whole Greek-speaking Church got it wrong for 2000 years. Oh, and, incidentally, the Syrian Church and the Alexandrian Church and the Roman Church which were all Greek speaking in the beginning, despite their later adoptions of Syriac and Coptic and Latin.

[ealgeone]

But there’s the rub. There was not unanimous consent on this issue.

[ealgeone]

If we accept your position the the Greek church, and not Rome, should be the final authority on issues. You willing to concede that?

[af_vet_1981]

Have you ever heard of someone learning a second language and then trying to dictate to the *original* speakers what a passage MUST mean? Despite unanimous opinion to the contrary?

Internet and websites; very few of them speak Hebrew or Greek; what's the security term for novices with hacking tools ? Script kiddies, and they do a lot of damage to unprotected computers.