Greek to me
Saturday, September 06 2008 @ 09:04 PM EDT
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Using the greek and hebrew to explain the scriptures always made me feel that I was disecating God's Word and trying to stretch It to fit my point... someone else says:
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In times past, I would offer a relatively comprehensive discussion on the Greek involved with the word or words I was evaluating. I have seen that this is foolish as it does two bad things. First, it serves to make the Greek 'experts' my teachers instead of the One Teacher, Messiah and the Father's Spirit (Matt. 23:8; John 14:26). Second, it seeks to set me up as a teacher as I claim to have some unique or special (or at least some intellectual understanding) insight into the original language that the reader might not, and thus the reader would tend to rely on me to understand something Jesus said....