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1 | Is Jesus re-sowing the breath of life? | John 1:4 | Schwenkie Rick | 222971 | ||
Thanks Doc, Probably I should have asked, What is the passage teaching?, rather than, what were the translators thinking? You comments are helpful. The NASB is my favorite translation, but many are helpful for study. Different translators makes sense. In all true translations I respect the labors greatly. A student, whom I know to be a serious Bible scholar, asked this question in our Sunday School class. In about a semester of investigation, I could not come up with a satisfactory explanation. Ultimately, she regretted asking the question because we felt frustrated. That is probably a function of my asking the wrong question. We examined Light in many passages. Justifying the capital was easy. It is not capitalizing the life that I couldn't solve. I want to connect the life in John 1:4 to the life in John 14:6. Based especially on Jesus' description of the Spirit in John 3, I want to connect it also to the breath of life in Genesis 2:7. But neither of these is capitalized either. The Amplified does capitalize in John 14:6, but not Genesis 2:7, even though they offer spirit as an alternative to breath. Checking potentially related passages in the NASB, 1 John 3:9 (seed) is not capitalized. 1 John 4:4 (He) and James 4:5 (Spirit) are capitalized. I worried that the notion was that the spirit God gave Adam was not Divine. Yet, referring to Jesus specifically, John 1:4 appears to teach that life equals Light. Jesus defines eternal life in John 17:3. I appreciate your pointing there. In Biblical times, males were thought the repository of all reproductive "will." (John 1:13) Today we would call that genetic material. Using the grain of wheat in John 12:24 as the teaching connection, I can get to eternal life from John 1:4. Then the desire expressed in James 4:5 makes perfect sense. I wondered whether that connection was too carnal for an intergenerational class, at least without being absolutely certain the connection was valid. Thanks again, Rick |
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2 | Why life and Light, not Life and Light? | John 1:4 | Schwenkie Rick | 222965 | ||
What were the translators of the NASB thinking when they capitalized Light, but not life? I see that in the Amplified both are capitalized. Was the NASB a simple transcription error, or was there a theological point behind the decision? | ||||||