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In article <097.57.13.05.236170000@srcbs.org>, basicallyblues says...
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>Bob Felts wrote:
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>>Greek is not English. There are rules for when the "a" is to be
>>inserted and when it is to be omitted. Just because Acts 28:6 has "a
>>god" doesn't man that John 1:1 should have "a god". As Matthew
>pointed
>>out, the issue isn't consitency. The issue is fathfulness to the
>>original language.
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>Fine Bob but inserting an "a" before "God" at John 1:1 is perfectly
>acceptable in Greek.

No, it is not. Why, that sentence doesn't even make sense. There IS not 'a' in
Greek. There is hA, which means something completely different. And there is the
post-positive TIS, which is conspicuously ABSENT.


>Joh 1:1-"and the Word was a god (godlike; divine)"

If this had been what he meant, he would have written QEOS TIS to remove any
doubt. But he did not. Why? because it is too _obviously wrong!

It is preposterous to think that a Palestinian Jew would write "the word was a
god".


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>These translations use such words as "a god," "divine" or
>"godlike" because the Greek word (the·osī) is a singular
>predicate noun occurring before the verb and is not preceded by the
>definite article.

But that is NOT sufficient grounds. That is where their dishonest error lies.

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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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adamst@no.spam wrote:

> We do the works, enabled by grace. But they are voluntary acts in
> response to grace. They are NOT forced by God. In other words, one
> way to refuse the gift is to refuse to do the works we have been
> enabled by grace to do.

I'm trying to think of a single work which we are "enabled to
do by grace" that any heathen group couldn't (and hasn't) done.
Buddhists build hospitals, refrain from stealing and adultry,
give alms, etc. Maybe Asians are more nobly constructed than
we anglos, because we aren't able to do good works without
grace, while they've been doing good works without grace for
millenia.


>>> >> It doesn't force us to do them, or even to believe. After
>>> >> all, Paul says the that it's a *gift* th