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To: af_vet_1981

Neither of those two passages speak of “the perfect,” in the context of Jesus’ Second Coming. [It’s possible to get too legalistic, btw. I knew exactly what the commentator meant because I was following his discourse. It was fascinating.]


1,228 posted on 08/29/2017 2:56:27 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter
Strong's indicates there are 19 occurrences of the word, which is an adjective, which begs the question, "the perfect" what ?:


Strong's Greek: 5046. τέλειος (teleios) — 19 Occurrences



teleios: having reached its end, i.e. complete, by ext. perfect Original Word: τέλειος, α, ον Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: teleios Phonetic Spelling: (tel'-i-os) Short Definition: perfect, full-grown Definition: perfect, (a) complete in all its parts, (b) full grown, of full age, (c) specially of the completeness of Christian character.

1,229 posted on 08/29/2017 6:05:29 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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