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To: ealgeone
-- Please hold, I have Socrates on line 2.

Very nice, Mr. Dawg, Mr. One. But I have been puzzling myself, perhaps you can tell me, τί èστι, what is this logos, this word? Does the God have vocal chords, or perhaps papyrus and ink? In what sense can I understand a "word" of the God ...

-- Please hold on. Line 3 is lighting up. Oh, it's a Jehovah's Witness. Quick, hide the Xmas tree.

So, your King James Bible is wrong. As Socrates shows, when people speak of the one God, in Greek, they use a definite article. But the third clause of John 1:1 is καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος. If it referred to God himself it would be θεὸς. So it should be translated, the word was a god.

-- Y'all keep going. But I'm going to see Star Wars. Hey, Eagle, wanna come with?

27 posted on 12/15/2017 12:27:23 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Sta, si cum canibus magnis currere non potes, in portico.)
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To: Mad Dawg

In the third clause...which is the subject?


28 posted on 12/15/2017 12:44:37 PM PST by ealgeone
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