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NASB | Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 2:38 And Peter said to them, "Repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways, accept and follow Jesus as the Messiah] and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ because of the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. |
Bible Question (short): Do you realize? |
Question (full): Don't you find it interesting that "one of the most perfect languages" is dead. It must not have been all that great after all. By the way, forgive me if I must call it dead, ancient Greek. Those adjectives much more accurately describe it than "Koine." On my fourth point, YOU are the one who accused me of attacking Tim's character. You only show your hypocrisy (by the way, that's Scriptural, as Jesus called people hypocrites too, right?) by making a railing accusation (which had nothing to do with Scripture) and failing to back it up. On my fifth point, Sarcasm is a valid way of making a point. Job used it too. See Job 12:2 Oh yeah, I almost forgot my question. Do you realize that, by your own words, ("The copies of the Koine Greek will have to do, since we don't haev the orginial.") you prove me right? People who understand dead, ancient Greek, have no more of a claim to reliable Scripture than those who use the better English interpretations of it? Here is what it boils down to, Searcher. I believe that God's ability to communicate His truths to people of every tongue in their own language (remember the day of Pentecost? Do you think Peter had to go back and tell people, "oops! I think you misunderstood that! What the disciples speaking in tongues REALLY meant to say was...") transcends the claim of a few elitists that they have the "true" meaning of Scripture because they can wallow in a dead language that isn't even the original. |