Well, where do we go from here. You don’t accept my premise? You’re the one touting your hapax legomenon. It’s not my fault it doesn’t prove your case. Lexical analysis is what it is. It’s not my premise you’re running into here. It’s just ordinary knowledge about words. Kind of a common framework that has to be there to have any continuity of analysis, of which, as you must know, Aquinas would approve as the exercise of right reason.
As for John 6:55, surely you understand that real and corporeal are two different words. Words have meaning. God is real, right? Is God corporeal? Well, to a Mormon perhaps. But my Bible says God is a spirit. Does that make him any less real?
Look, I respect your effort, but I don’t see where this can go if you think we can just throw aside the rules of language whenever it suits you. From a debate point of view, you put me in an impossible position. I have to accept your entire system of belief before I can inspect it? Really? Like ObamaCare? We have to pass it before we can find out what’s in it?
Not how I play. God saved me from a wretched life. You have no idea. There were miracles. I have seen the name of Jesus put flight to the darkest evils. He reached me through his word, and I will not sell out low for 9th Century magic, not when I already have the real real thing.
Peace,
SR
Good post to you, too.