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David Lamb replied to the thread Spirit or Ghost?.That doesn't make sense. If the Greek can't give it, and the KJV New Testament is translated from the Greek, how did the translators... -
David Lamb replied to the thread 2 Kings 25:3 - inspired italic.But Greek isn't English. Some languages make all their nouns masculine, feminine and neuter. For example, in Latin, the word for...
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David Lamb replied to the thread Spirit or Ghost?.Because as I have just mentioned in an answer to another of your posts, when the ESV or the NKJV (for example) use the word "ghost"...
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David Lamb replied to the thread Spirit or Ghost?.Yet in the original Greek of the New Testament, the words used are always the same p- hagios pneuma. The Greek word for "ghost" is...
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David Lamb replied to the thread Spirit or Ghost?.I have just checked in the ESV. It uses the word "ghost" three times: Isa 29:4 And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall...
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David Lamb replied to the thread 2 Kings 25:3 - inspired italic.As the Old Testament was originally in Hebrew, if you say the Hebrew needed correcting by English translations made hundreds of years...
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Your arguments are not from Scripture, but from history...or whatever, I'm not really sure. This morning in my personal devotions I...
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NO such thing exists though as "pure English"
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David Lamb replied to the thread Spirit or Ghost?.I don't refer to God as "what" or "which." As to the question of why some people and some bible translations do, my answer is the same...
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David Lamb replied to the thread Spirit or Ghost?.I agree we need to check with the Greek or Hebrew. I am not expert in those languages, but as far as I know, Greek and Hebrew don't use...
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David Lamb replied to the thread Spirit or Ghost?.I don't know whether it was OK back then. I assume that the translators thought it must be. But that is not how English is spoken now...
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David Lamb replied to the thread Spirit or Ghost?.Not in English as it is spoken now. "It" is only used for things, and sometimes animals. God is not a thing or an animal.
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I was laughing at you saying that the KJV corrects the Hebrew.
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David Lamb replied to the thread Spirit or Ghost?.As a word, there is nothing wrong with "it." However, in English, we use the word "it" when referring to things, not to people. Using...
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Okay, then, once again. How in the world does "Ghost" represent something about the blessed Spirit of God that "Spirit" does not...
