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Kermos posted: 'Exceptions to the anathrous rule for the count noun exist in which a count noun using the definite article the/ho or the predicate noun is a qualitative noun. For example, Joshua 2:11 in the Septuagint contains "theos" (God) rather than "ho theos" (the God) for reference YHWH...

CoreIssue: ..................................... Many trinitarian apologists will tell us that the Hebrew word for God (Elohim) is plural because it shows that God is a trinity. For example, "Among Trinitarian Christian writers it is [often] seen as evidence for the doctrine of the Trinity, a...

So 'God' (masculine Gender in both Hebrew and NT Greek as are 'Father,' and 'Son') is to be applied to the HS (feminine gender - often also understood as neuter - in Hebrew and neuter gender in NT Greek).

Young’s Analytical Concordance of the Bible, Eerdmans, 1978 Reprint, “Hints and Helps to Bible Interpretation”: “65. GOD - is used of any one (professedly) MIGHTY, whether truly so or not, and is applied not only to the true God, but to false gods, magistrates, judges, angels, prophets, etc...

Either can be correct depending on which meaning one has of 'spirit' in this verse. If you think Jesus is referring to a spirit person, then the rule for NT Greek count nouns would make the verse say "God is a spirit." (KJV) If you think 'spirit' is an abstract word, or a word meaning...

..................................... The Son has never been the Father. He prayed to the Father while on earth and ascended to the Father after resurrection. Personal names in the ancient Hebrew and Greek are often somewhat cryptic to us today. The English Bible translator must fill in the...

Copies of the very few remaining manuscripts of the early Church Fathers were copied, for the most part, many hundreds of years after the originals were written. As is noted by most publishers of the best extant versions, copyists took great advantages of this material, often adding or changing...

From the Catholic Encyclopedia (on New Advent): CATHOLIC The word Catholic (katholikos from katholou — [meaning] throughout the whole, i.e., universal) occurs in the Greek classics, e.g., in Aristotle and Polybius, and was freely used by the earlier Christian writers in what we may call its...

Let's not forget the end of this Psalm: 17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: 18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

Very few trinitarian-translated Bibles render harpagmos correctly at Phil. 2:6 1. “He did not think to snatch at [harpagmos, ἁρπαγμὸς] equality with God” - NEB. 2. “He did not think that by force [harpagmos] he should try to become equal with God” - TEV (and GNB). 3. - He existed in the...

CoreIssue, I certainly don't disagree that most trinitarian-translated Bibles translate with a trinitarian bias. It would be unnatural to expect otherwise. However, when we look at the NT Greek words in question, even trinitarian scholars often disagree with such translations. Although it has...

I agree with this except for the part in bold above. The NIV (like many other Bibles) has inaccuracies in important passages. For example, Phil. 2:6 - "Who, being in very nature [morphe] God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage [harpagmos];"- 2011 NIV...

"These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;" - KJV. The word for 'beginning' in 3:14 is 'arche.' John always used it for 'beginning.' See John 1:1,2; 2:11; 6:64; etc. John always used archon for 'ruler/prince' and kephale for 'head.'

The one speaking at Rev. 3:14 continues to speak through Rev. 3:21: "21 He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne." - NASB.

EASTER What do the name “Easter,” colored eggs, hot-cross buns, and bunnies have to do with honoring Jesus and Jehovah? The very name of this celebration in English (“Easter”) is the name of a pagan goddess! Many of the customs originally used in worshiping this ancient European goddess are...

I see the major point being given in Acts 7:55, 56.

Her link was misspelled. I tried her link in an earlier post (post 39) and her blog is up and looking good.

Prov. 15:2 (post 2) should be, I believe, 25:2. Psalm 22:2 (post 3) should be, I believe, Psalm 22:1. The inspired writers of Matt. 27:46 and Mark 15:34 translate the Hebrew word into Greek as ἐγκατέλιπες ('forsaken') not 'entangled' or anything comparable. The Septuagint at Psalm 22:1 (21:1)...

(1) Trinitarian Moffatt’s highly acclaimed New Translation of the Bible and (2) trinitarian Smith-Goodspeed’s An American Translation both say that the Word “was divine.” The translations by (3) Boehmer, (4) Stage, and (5) Menge all say the Word was “of divine being.” (6) John J. McKenzie, S...

............................................ Is God ever called “unlikely” things in a figurative sense that are as equally “ridiculous” as calling him “a throne”? Every Bible student of any experience knows that He is, repeatedly! Many times he is called someone’s “Rock” (e.g., Ps. 78:35)...