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David Lamb's latest activity

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    Have to explain to Spurgeon how he held to "poor theology" then, as he was Reformed Baptist
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    David Lamb replied to the thread Romans 4:19.
    Well, ERV doesn't use the word "not", but the meaning is there. Here is the verse from ERV: And without being weakened in faith he...
  • David Lamb
    I simply meant that if you just say, "John Gill had no issue calling God a 'it.'" the rest of us have no idea what it was from John...
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    David Lamb replied to the thread Spirit or Ghost?.
    The usual meaning of "ghost" in English is a phantom or a spectre.
  • David Lamb
    David Lamb replied to the thread Romans 4:19.
    I have just taken a look at the verse, and it certainly seems that the Greek has a word for "not". I have looked at several English...
  • David Lamb
    Have you got a quote from Gill where he refers to God as "it?"
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    David Lamb replied to the thread Spirit or Ghost?.
    I agree that phantoms are not real. I disagree with calling the Holy Spirit a "Ghost". As you say, phantoms are not real, and in...
  • David Lamb
    Yes, that's the exception. But that doesn't make "ship" a grammatically feminine noun.
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    David Lamb replied to the thread Spirit or Ghost?.
    Yes, phantasma is "ghost" as in the way we use it today, a phantom. When you ask "Did the KJB put spirit in those words?" do you mean...
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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
    But Greek isn't English. Some languages make all their nouns masculine, feminine and neuter. For example, in Latin, the word for...
  • David Lamb
    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"...
  • David Lamb
    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...
  • David Lamb
    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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