Recent content by John of Japan

"Administration" is not the usual word for a dispensation, but not necessarily wrong. The Biblical term "dispensation" is the Greek oikonomia, occurring 7 times and meaning a stewardship. Charles Ryrie says, "A concise definition of a dispensation is this: a distinguishable economy in the...

Here is Since there is no satisfactory reason why the passage, if originally present in Matthew, should have been omitted in a wide variety of witnesses [doesn't list them--JoJ], and since copyists frequently inserted material derived from another Gospel, it appears that most manuscripts have...

He actually wrote a book against the KJVO movement: King James Onlyism: A New Sect, self published in 2006. It's over 600 pages, and has a lot of information about KJV history, English translations, the Greek texts, etc. However, he was well known as a Hebrew scholar, but was not a Greek...

The better style is one lesser reason I believe it is closest to the autographs, because it makes more sense for a text that would be verbally inspired. Whether it is the oldest is debatable from Byzantine textform standards. And there are very early mss with Byzantine readings. "In addition...

I'm sure Ascetic X will answer for himself, but I couldn't resist. They are close, but the methodology is quite different. The editors of the Majority text, Hodges and Farstad, edited a text based on majority readings. In other words, they chose readings that represented the most manuscripts...

Okay, I'm out of here. I teach theology at the college and seminary level, and believe in always defining terms, and teach me students that. You apparently like vagueness and ambiguity, but that doesn't work for me. God bless.

Sure. But I hold that in any discussion, it is extremely helpful to clarify terminology.

Never even heard that term before. Don't know what you mean by it.

1 Tim. 4:10, "For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe." 1 John 4:14, "And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world."

Thanks to all who participated for a great discussion! :Thumbsup

Here's a thought. My objections to students using AI are all based on direct usage to obtain a result which should have been gotten by the work of the student himself or herself. AI in Logos is a hidden thing, of course, hard to actually see in action. I have no objection to AI working...

"He knows when you are sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake!" :Tongue I once heard an "expert on religion" on Japanese TV call Santa "one of the gods of the Christian religion!" So, can AI use become idolatry??? :rolleyes:

Yes. One of the tasks of college faculty is to teach critical thinking. IMO That is the type of thinking that atrophies as one comes to depend on AI. Exactly. At this point in AI history, it is unable to operate at a scholarly level in the theological arena; I don't know about other...

Very informative post. Thank you.

Oh, right. The Bible Faculty Summit was at BJU last summer. They treated us pretty well. A few places in their plant are getting run down, there, though. Their beautiful fountain is all run down and dry.