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The Bible is not against respect in the modern sense. The KJV speaks against partiality 'respect of persons' in early modern English. I don't know if you are not reading or if for some reason you cannot perceive. This is something simple any average person should be able to see in Acts 10 or...

That's really surprising considering the content of your recent posts posts. My bachelors is in Linguistics. My masters and PhD are in another field. One of the things emphasized in my Morphology class, which was taught by a lexicographer, is that definitions of words are understood by what...

Finding another word that means partiality in Greek doesn't prove your point. Did you use Google scholar's modern Greek translation? Look at the definitions you offered for evidence. In school they teach you to use context clues if you do not know what a word means. James 2 is full of context...

Your line of argument is probably not going to have too many takers around here since people on this forum are able to read. They can actually read the definitions you quoted and the historical definition from the dictionary entry I quoted. You certainly do stick to your guns... James 2 1 My...

If it is calling him a member of the Dagger sect, how is that a word play? You have a different view of the scripture than I do (and most Christians who have lived throughout history.) Do you think Jesus was a literary device also? Why don't you show one verse about God saving men's souls...

This argument of yours is silly. When 'respect' came into the language, it had to do with favoritism, preferential treatment, etc. The word has changed in meaning over the centuries. It's one of the disadvantages of using an old translation like the KJV and one of the reasons for newer...

Trump is against murdering babies. He has some skeletons in his closet--- or skeletons that have been on display as far as his sex life is concerned. He insults people. He is rude at times. But we are talking about politicians supporting murdering babies, here.

Yes, favoritism 'respect of persons' in KJV English IS the issue. You seem to naively think that 'respect' in this KJV phrase means the same thing as the modern term. Did you look at the Strong's glosses you yourself posted? And from Thayer's Look at what the word meant when it came into...

The concept of 'respect of persons' as the KJV renders it has to do with showing partiality. For example, James warns against saying to a rich man who comes to a gathering/synagoguge 'Sit here in a good place' and saying to the poor man, 'Stand there' or 'Sit here under my footstool' as respect...

Again, humility would help. If you were a bit more humble about it, you might consider that you might be wrong about something. You might think, "Maybe Paul was not saying that he was omniscient and did not have love. Maybe he was not saying that he allowed himself to be burned." If you had...

I don't see how you interpreted what I wrote that way. I read that his name meant Judas the Sicarii, calling him a member of that group. It was a specific group named after daggers. It's unlikely that it would have had all those connotations, at least not to all people, likely not to their...

What I mean is that it argued that he was being called a member of that group, like Simon Zealotes was named after the other group of Zealots. Does it mean something like 'cut throat?' My mind goes to assassins being named after a Shiite Islam offshoot hundreds of years later. That makes...

I have read the opinion that that was his name, not just a word play. I'm not sure how the Aramaic (or Hebrew?) would transliterate into Greek. It could be the last two in the list of apostles is Simon the Zealot and Judas the Sicarii-- a subset of Zealots. I wonder if they were sent out...

I see you are quick to launch unfounded judgments, attacking a person's motives when they disagree with your ideas. Did my pointing out logical errors made you feel slighted somehow? Reading out of the KJV your idea did not line up with what the passage said. Paul was not claiming omniscience...

If you assume the trajectory was modern liberal philosophy that makes sense. If you believe that Paul's writings were inspired scripture, it does not.

This is a little different topic... on an old post at that. I remember when Saddam Hussein's troops left Kuwait and lit the oil wells on fire, leaving a mess to clean up. My parents had a copy of David Wilkerson's "Set the Trumpet to Thy Mouth" and I was looking through it. I came across part...

Brother (or sister?), I am seeing some problems with the logic of your arguments. For one thing, I am not a KJV-onlyist other translations say "if I have the gift of prophecy." And we can get this sense out of the KJV. Had Paul given his body to be burned at this time? He was still alive when...

No offense. But that appears to be a poor attempt at folk etymology you are repeating. I visited a meeting of people who were into Hebrew roots stuff. I think they call this the sacred name movement. They would say stuff like this. One of them forwarded me the book they got their ideas...

What was the context of this teaching? It is about being heirs according to the promise, not political power. In the Jewish system, in order to come into the covenant, a boy would be circumcised as a baby to continue his role in the covenant, or a proselyte could be circumcised. What about...

I read in one of Don Richardson's book the alleged history of the event. Athens was having a famine or pestilence. They sacrificed to their gods but nothing helped. They got desperate so they called in a foreign wise man-- one of the poets he quotes if not mistaken--who tells them that they...