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1 | 2 Cor 4:4 | 2 Cor 4:4 | Morant61 | 137004 | ||
Greetings Mike! Let me quickly touch upon your comments! 1) I am glad you have not felt insulted my friend! :) When I appeal to the Greek, I am not trying to make my view more important, but simply factual. If someone tells me that 2 Cor. 4:4 says that 'Satan is the god of this world', I simply look at the text and find that 'Satan' is not in the text. That is simply a fact, not opinion. :) 2) Again, I am sorry if you viewed my comments about paragraphs as sacrcasm. It certainly was not my intent. I was simply using examples of things that we do in English that Greek did not do. :-) 3) There certainly is a lot of info available today! :-) 4) You wrote: "So, based on your knowledge of Greek and limited retained knowledge of Hebrew, you must be smarter or more intelligent or have a 'better' understanding of the ancient text than ANY of the translation teams of the 19 translations listed on www.biblegateway.com." I never claimed to be smarter! The Greek text does not use capitalization. So, the translations teams have made their interpretative choice to use 'god' rather than 'God'. That is certainly their right. However, since I do know Greek, it is also my right to make a different interpretative choice. ;-) There have certainly been times in most every major translation that I have agreed with certain choices. Should I simply go with what someone else says, or should I do the research that I am capable of doing? Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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2 | 2 Cor 4:4 | 2 Cor 4:4 | xmikx | 137007 | ||
Tim, 1, 2, and 3 I am cool with. No problem with anything. 4) By my asking if you are smarter or more intelligent or have a 'better' understanding of the ancient text I meant since you interpret 2 Cor 4:4 to mean Jehovah God is doing the blinding and NOT one of the 19 translations listed on biblegateway.com you must have some way of interpreting this that none of the translation teams used on the 19 translations were able to figure out. I commented on how I was not able to find 'ho theos' in the Strong's Concordance, as you claimed, and you made no comment. I asked if you had ever read Romans 12:2. Then listed the three references provided in the NASB translation for 'the world' which are Matt 13:22; Gal 1:4; 1 John 2:15. Then I asked you to read these three verses, if you go to www.biblegateway.com and look up Romans 12:2 using the NASB, you will then be able to follow the link to these three and be able to view/read them all on one page, and then asked you to please post how after reading these verses, you could still have the same view of who was doing the blinding in 2 Cor 4:4. No, I do not think you should go with what someone else says. You have every right to do any and all research that you are capable of doing. We all just need to be careful with the information obtained during the research, as it might not always be correct. Mike |
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3 | 2 Cor 4:4 | 2 Cor 4:4 | Morant61 | 137019 | ||
Greetings Mike! You wrote: "I commented on how I was not able to find 'ho theos' in the Strong's Concordance, as you claimed, and you made no comment. " That was a different post my friend! :-) I just responded to it! Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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