In article <088.57.10.05.274632000@srcbs.org>, basicallyblues says...
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>>Smoke goes up by itself.
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>huh? No it doesn't. Personification?

No, it is not 'personification'. Why do you JWs keep seeing 'personification'
under every bed? Is it because you are as driven by fallacy as the McCarthyite
Red-baiters, who kept seeing reds under every bed?


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Subudcat se sibi ut haereat Deo
quidquid boni habet, tribuat illi a quo factus est.
(St. Augustine, Ser. 96)

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basicallyblues wrote:

> I simply asked:
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> nna...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > you will see my point when you post the verse in English. I guess I
> > need to be more specificwith you. Choose a Bible you have in English
> > and post what it says at Acts 28:6
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> Bart Godderd wrote:
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> >No. I know that dishonest trick.
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> Dishonest trick? I asked you to quote a verse from one of your own
> Bible translations and you refused to even do that? Why? Because you're
> afraid of honest, objective debate methinks.
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> Since you are being stubborn I'll post the verse for you:
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> "But they were expecting he was going to swell up with inflammation or
> suddenly drop dead. After they waited for a long while and beheld
> nothing hurtful happen to him, they changed their mind and began saying
> he was a god" (Acts 28:6)
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> "was a god"

Sure. And if you had asked me to translate it from the Greek I would
have said "a god", too. So what? Acts 28:6 is not John 1:1 -- the
Greek is different in each verse.

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> If you look at one of your English Bibles (oh sarcastic Bart) you will
> find it inserts in the indefinite artcle "a" before "god" even though
> it does not appear there in Greek.

It _does_ appear there in the Greek. That's why we include it in the
English translation.

> So for you to accuse me or the New World Translation of "inconsistant
> translation" is ignorant.

The NWT is inconsistent with the actual Greek.

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> Following is a list of instances in the gospels of Mark and John where
> various translators have rendered singular anarthrous predicate nouns
> occurring before the verb with an indefinite article to denote the
> indefinite and qualitative status of the subject nouns:
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> Scripture Text
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> New World Translation
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> King James Version
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> An American T