tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474429946789088173.post3463440769611107022..comments2023-07-01T06:12:43.104-05:00Comments on Nuggets in the Biblical Greek: Bel and the Dragon; The Use of κόμη (komē), LXX Studies.Russell Beattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712484471919613536noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474429946789088173.post-84609865196864774132013-09-18T06:44:01.685-05:002013-09-18T06:44:01.685-05:00Well, Gary, you certainly have a right to your opi...Well, Gary, you certainly have a right to your opinion. I started learning Greek for me, and me alone. I don't post as much as I used to, but learning the original language has been very insightful for me. I like to share those insights from time to time. As far as what you advise non-Greek people to do, I agree with the "four translations" approach. In fact, I teach our local congregation something very similar. <br /><br />BTW, I'm not Baptist.<br /><br />In Christ, <br /><br />RussellRussell Beattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712484471919613536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-474429946789088173.post-42170777100823113812013-09-17T00:50:11.043-05:002013-09-17T00:50:11.043-05:00Baptists: Please throw your Greek lexicons in the ...Baptists: Please throw your Greek lexicons in the trash! <br /><br />Why do Baptist always want to go to the Greek to understand the Bible? It is as if Baptists do not trust their English Bibles: "Sorry, hold on a minute, I need to check the original Greek before we can believe that God really loves the whole world as your English Bible seems to say in John 3:16...we can only know for sure if we understand and read ancient Greek."<br /><br /> When God promised to preserve his Word...did he really mean that he would only preserve it on 2,000 year old parchment and papyrus in ancient forms of Greek and Aramaic?? Did God really intend that the only people who could REALLY know what he had to say to mankind...would be ancient Greek-educated Baptist Churchmen?? Is the non-ancient-Greek- speaking layperson sitting in the pew supposed to just shut his English language Bible and sit at the feet of these Baptist Greek scholars to learn what God couldn't explain himself in plain, simple ENGLISH??<br /><br /> Do you REALLY believe that God intended for only Baptist, Greek-speaking Churchmen to understand the Gospel? Because that is really what Baptists are saying, because the Greek scholars of the Greek Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church, the Presbyterian Church, and the Methodist Church think that Baptist Greek scholars are all WET on their positions that the Bible does not support infant baptism and that baptism MUST be by immersion!<br /><br /> Is it really possible that ONLY Baptist Greek scholars truly understand ancient Greek, and that the rest of the world's Greek scholars completely bungle the translation of the New Testament? How is that possible? It defies common sense. And if I hear another Baptist start talking about how the Greek genitive case proves that the Baptist position is correct, I swear I'm going to puke! Seriously, every time I get into a discussion about Biblical translation with a Baptist he starts in with the genitive case nonsense. If you want to understand the genitive case in a Greek document...I suggest you confer...not with a Baptist...but with a GREEK!<br /><br /> Instead of all this ancient Greek nonsense, which Baptists seem to have a fixation on, I suggest that every Christian layperson do this:<br /><br /> 1. Obtain a copy of four different English language translations of the Bible. Read each one of these "problem passages", as Baptists and evangelicals refer to them, in each of these English translations.<br />2. God's true meaning of the passage will be plainly understandable after comparing these four English translations.<br /><br /> You do NOT need to read the ancient Greek text unless you want to delve into the study of ancient Greek sentence structure or some other nuance. God promised he would preserve his Word, and the English-speaking people of the world have had the Word of God IN ENGLISH since at least William Tyndale (1300"s??). Dear Baptists...PLEASE stop insisting on using the ancient texts to confuse Christian laypeople of God's simple, plain message of the Gospel!<br /><br /> Gary<br />Luther, Baptists, and Evangelicals<br />an orthodox Lutheran blog Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02519721717265344702noreply@blogger.com