Posted on 02/08/2015 5:56:52 AM PST by infool7
Wow! Well said!!
I guess we will agree to disagree.
Who is Michael Taylor? What are his credentials. This random blogger can't even credibly answer his critics under the blog post you cite.
Carson is a recognized, credentialed Greek scholar, and he's hardly alone in his assertion. c.f. Blomberg, Keener, Cullmann and Albright.
It would seem Taylor's only credential is saying what you want to hear.
Furthermore, it is outright dishonest to claim Carson "was NOT analysing the Greek."
. . . The Greek makes a distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not very well serve as a masculine name (D.A. Carson, Matthew, Frank E. Gaebelein, ed. The Expositors Bible Commentary, Vol. 8, [Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1984], p. 368).
That is analyzing Greek by definition.
As Carson IS referring to the Greek, one has to wonder where this question of Aramaic is coming from other than answering critics desperate to find SOMETHING to impeach his credibility. His argument about the Greek doesn't NEED to include anything about Aramaic.
These demonstrable facts make your entire contention about "second guessing the Holy Spirit" utterly moot.
I understand seeing a pet dogma get run over is distressing, but making a dogma out of "he didn't get a ticket for speeding; he got a ticket for driving a car that was going too fast" should never have been adopted in the first place.
The Holy Spirit inspired the New Testament to be written in Greek. Get over it.
Where are you getting the idea I dispute that fact?
My post shows I have nothing to “get over,” while yours shows you aren’t addressing my points.
There's another: The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints.
Read verses 12-13
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and only one that has a policy against marriage(Catholic).
Well, There IS one that has a 'policy' FOR multiple marriages - it is found on the pages of their scriptures: The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints.
58 Now, as touching the law of the apriesthood, there are many things pertaining thereunto.
59 Verily, if a man be called of my Father, as was aAaron, by mine own voice, and by the voice of him that bsent me, and I have endowed him with the ckeys of the power of this priesthood, if he do anything in my name, and according to my law and by my word, he will not commit dsin, and I will justify him.
60 Let no one, therefore, set on my servant Joseph; for I will justify him; for he shall do the sacrifice which I require at his hands for his transgressions, saith the Lord your God.
61 And again, as pertaining to the law of the priesthoodif any man espouse a virgin, and desire to espouse aanother, and the first give her consent, and if he espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to no other man, then is he justified; he cannot commit adultery for they are given unto him; for he cannot commit adultery with that that belongeth unto him and to no one else.
62 And if he have aten virgins given unto him by this law, he cannot commit adultery, for they belong to him, and they are given unto him; therefore is he justified.
63 But if one or either of the ten virgins, after she is espoused, shall be with another man, she has committed adultery, and shall be destroyed; for they are given unto him to amultiply and replenish the earth, according to my commandment, and to fulfil the promise which was given by my Father before the foundation of the world, and for their exaltation in the eternal worlds, that they may bear the souls of men; for herein is the work of my Father continued, that he may be bglorified.
64 And again, verily, verily, I say unto you, if any man have a wife, who holds the keys of this power, and he teaches unto her the law of my priesthood, as pertaining to these things, then shall she believe and administer unto him, or she shall be destroyed, saith the Lord your God; for I will destroy her; for I will magnify my name upon all those who receive and abide in my law.
65 Therefore, it shall be lawful in me, if she receive not this law, for him to receive all things whatsoever I, the Lord his God, will give unto him, because she did not believe and administer unto him according to my word; and she then becomes the transgressor; and he is exempt from the law of Sarah, who administered unto Abraham according to the law when I commanded Abraham to take aHagar to wife.
66 And now, as pertaining to this law, verily, verily, I say unto you, I will reveal more unto you, hereafter; therefore, let this suffice for the present. Behold, I am Alpha and Omega. Amen.
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