But it's also wrong to use what could have been a typographical error in an article to make the claim that the entire piece is in error.
If all you can do is pick out a word in an article, find fault with it, then declare that because of that, the whole thing is wrong, then it appears as though you dislike what the author has written but can't find the Scripture to make your case as to why you disagree.
Now, maybe that's not the case here. But that's what happens when someone starts nitpicking Biblical languages.
Even native speakers of those languages disagree with how other native speakers use certain words. So just because there may have been a mistake with a word, the cause of which we can't be sure of, does not mean that the entire article is wrong.
GiovannaNicoletta wrote:
“But it’s also wrong to use what could have been a typographical error in an article to make the claim that the entire piece is in error.”
Yes. That is wrong. But I didn’t do that.
I pointed out something that is integral to his argument, about which he twice made the same mistake (which, obviously, shows he didn’t understand it to be a mistake). I chose one error (there are others) that could be discussed with you - I thought - somewhat calmly and rationally, because it is easily verified in a grammar book of Hebrew. It is a clear, simple factual error. And if two people in discussion cannot agree on a clear, factual error, you tell me, what is the point of proceeding?
Your response was, “yawn.” I took that to mean, and correct me if I am wrong, that you weren’t going to bother looking and checking, and that I was being blown off. OK, that is fine, if that is the way you choose to further your case. I responded that I took note of your method of argumentation, that you choose not to be informed. So be it.
Your response was, to say the least, neither calm nor rational. So, I ask you, what is the point in going further when all I received in return was ... well, you go back and look what you wrote, look at it calmly and dispassionately now. How would you characterize it? I wrote in no such way to you.