You can't win the real argument so you continue to make it personal. First, you pin a badge on your chest by telling everyone about your Phd professor and how you are so much superior to all others.
Now, you continue to inject the personal element into a conversation that should be focused on the text not you or your professor or the so called superior education you received that makes you the Lord over all others simply by invoking your wonderful PhD professor. That is a slick Willy approach to what otherwise would have been a good discussion on the topic of Eph. 1:13.
If you can't keep personal out of the conversation then Archangel you don't need to be in it. It will serve this thread well if you reframe from injection your kingship and master mentality into the conversation as being the authority beyond all others kind of approach to belittling those you discuss a text with on the grounds that your education is superior to others because you studied under this mysterious PhD regardless of who he is. Greek was around long before you, me or your wonderful PhD guru.
If you want to discuss the topic then stay on topic and knock off the personal garbage, stop tooting your horn as you did and continue to do so. It makes you look bad because of what you did.
You don't get a free pass with me and if you want to discuss the text find but stop the phony better than others approach to the conversation and deal with facts. Don't appeal to your greatness and the one you studied under because there is thousands of PhD who are just as capable and more and it is not impressive to anyone regardless of who it is.
It amounts to trying to impress others: Look at me I did this or that. This is the games kids play and folk who think they are something they are not.
I don't care who your PhD professor is so why even inject him or her into this discussion. You are the guilty party in making this a personal discussion so get off the personal approach and let’s discuss the text, can you do that?
Again, you must be joking. I have not made this personal, and I won't. I do however demand that you address me as a Christian brother, not as you have.
You are the guilty party in making this a personal discussion so get off the personal approach and let’s discuss the text, can you do that?
I would love to discuss the text and I have been trying to do so...until you interjected your errant thought of Greek and the participle. And I challenge you to find one place where I have called you an idiot or a moron or a nitwit as you have called me.
If you will note, I have stuck to the issue of Greek and you are the one who said "
The translators are just plain stupid idiot moron backward nitwits form stump jumping ridge in the middle of nowhere and you think you are king of them."
Do I know Greek. Yes. Did I work hard at it? Yes. Did I master it so far as to get an "A" in it? Yes. Am I thumping my own chest? Not in the least. It is a statement of fact to say I know Greek, intimately, it is not an attempt to place myself on a higher platform.
But, again, I doubt seriously that you've studied Greek in any organized way. Unfortunately, you are like someone who fancies himself a mechanic and can describe and name all the parts of the internal combustion engine, but for the life of him, he can't figure out how to put the pieces together and make it run. That's not an attack; that is an analogy used as an example.
Now, if your Greek issues are a sore spot for you, I really couldn't care less--except to encourage you to take a class in Biblical Greek. No matter what you say nouns are still nouns, verbs are still verbs, and participles are still participles and those facts will not change because you are uninformed about them or uncomfortable with them.
And do remember, in the future, that I do have a Masters Degree in this stuff, so I'm not some, how did you say, "idiot, moron, backwoods, nitwit." But, that really doesn't matter. What does matter is that I am a brother in Christ and for that reason alone you do need to watch what you say. Calling someone an idiot or moron or any of the other things you called me is simply conduct unbecoming of a Christian and, in my own opinion, it shows what is going on in your soul much more than any Greek you do or don't know.
Blessings,
The Archangel
