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That's fine. Thank you for your posts so far.

You can coin a new word, Paulauthor, but that does not prove that Paul wrote Hebrews. I am not saying he didn't; I am just saying that we are not told. That is why there are firm, bible-believing Christians who believe that Paul didn't write Hebrews, and other firm, bible-believing Christians...

Well, as we are not told who the human author of Hebrews was, I would say, "I don't know." The vital point is that God is the ultimate Author of all Scripture.

The bible does have some words in it that are not used in the secular world, words like "propitiation." But the Greek word "phantasma" is a word that is used in both secular settings and in the bible. It means "ghost" in the sense of a spectre or a phantom. The Greek word "pneuma" which is...

Yet he openly preached to Jews in synagogues.

Thank you. Your link includes this section: In the mystical sense, "it", or "he, Hu", which is one of the names of God, Psalms 102:27 and here of the Messiah, the eminent seed of the woman, should bruise the head of the old serpent the devil, that is, destroy him and all his principalities and...

Ah! I was looking at the wrong "not". But it seems to me that the ERV's "he considered his own body now as good as dead" means that he rated his body as so old that it was as good as dead. That seems very similar to saying, "he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an...

How can you be so certain? In all epistles that we know are by Paul, he begins by introducing himself by name. Hebrews just starts: “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has...

I agree that size doesn't (or shouldn't) matter. The crowd of 5000 men, plus women and children, was not a church. A better example in my view would have been from Acts: “Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added [to them].”...

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 considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb: "Without being weakened in faith" means he was...

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 Gill's writings that gave you the idea that he had no issues with calling God "it". If you answered and said, "Here is a passage from Gill's works where he...

The usual meaning of "ghost" in English is a phantom or a spectre.

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 translations, and they have "not" too. For example, the NKJV has: “And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was...

Have you got a quote from Gill where he refers to God as "it?"

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 English "ghost" means a phantom. One dictiary says: "A ghost is the spirit of a dead person that someone believes they can see or feel. ...the ghost of Marie...

Yes, that's the exception. But that doesn't make "ship" a grammatically feminine noun.

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, "Did the KJB put spirit where the Greek has "phantasma?" Here is one of the verses that uses "phantasma": Mt 14:26 And when the disciples saw him walking on...

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 know which was which?

But Greek isn't English. Some languages make all their nouns masculine, feminine and neuter. For example, in Latin, the word for "table" is "mensa", which is a feminine noun. In French, the word for "car" is "voiture," which is a feminine noun, That doesn't mean that when translating into...

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", they do so to translate the Greek word phantasma, which does mean "ghost." Phantasma is never used for the Holy Spirit.