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Your asking me to prove your own point. No can do. (And since you doubt my credentials, I've also taught English in two languages.) You've proven nothing. さようなら。(Sayonara.) God bless you.

There's an old Chinese story that a young man went to an old master of the martial arts and asked for teaching. However, he then droned on about himself for quite a while, until the old master began pouring tea, but did not stop so that the young man's cup overflowed. When the young man...

This is a better explanation. I still don't agree with it. You are not proving that English moral, behavioral and theological categories have changed. You state it without proof as a "linguistic fact." Can you quote a linguist who says this? My Japanese example is very relevant to the...

Good germane post. By way of teaching (I teach Greek), πολιτεύομαι only occurs twice, and it is not passive, but a deponent, passive in form but active in meaning. There are four other words for "conversation," an interesting one being πολίτευμα politeuma (Phil. 3:20), which I believe the KJV...

I'm glad to know you are studying the Bible assiduously. Your post was misleading to me, then, because you gave detailed attention to the KJV English, and only gloss (one word each) attention to the modern English words. That to me is very unbalanced on the KJV side. This I have to disagree...

I did not mean to be offensive, just descriptive. I certainly did not mean to assert dishonesty. Making something up is not dishonesty. So anyway, I apologize. But then I must ask, where did that concept come from? Did nobody invent it (discover, however you want to put it)?

To be clear, there are five words translated "conversation" in the NT (one in the OT which I don't plan to address.) This thread has encouraged me to do a word study of these words, and maybe I'll be able to share that soon.

Have you ever read Hiroshima, by John Hersey, a doctor who was there shortly after the Japanese surrender? The effects of the bombing of Hiroshima were quite different from the Tokyo firebombing.

First of all, thank you for giving me actual examples rather than just opinions. I'm curious. Is this all your own research, or are you referencing someone else's work? (No offense intended; just curious.) Now, on to the content. My main objection is that you are giving a good range of meaning...

Well, I asked for one or two, and you dumped the entire load on me, but that's okay. I can't answer them all right now, but I will just say that I see your answers as opinion. And I certainly have a different opinion. It would b e nice if you gave illustrations of what you are talking about...

Thank you for the illumination about the KJVO thinking on this. I've not read anything by one of them in a long time, but I understand what you are saying here. And of course, I stand with you that their position is wrong-headed. I've read a lot of biographies of tribal Bible translators, and...

This I will grant. Modern English has this. Modern English has this. It is one of the most expressive languages there is. I see no difference in 21st century English and 1611 English. How does modern English not have this? Modern English is the same. Modern English has this. Vocabulary...

By reconstructionism, you do mean the doctrine of R. J. Rushdoony, do you not? I see absolutely no connection with that and this thread.

I'm not sure what you mean by the terms a mature or weakened or imprecise language. Linguists tell us that even the language of the most "primitive" tribe is complicated and grammatically sophisticated (and missionary translators have confirmed that). The primary "weakness" of a language without...

Great! It's an excellent theology.

I hold to the literal method of Hebrew scholar Dr. James Price called optimal equivalence. While striving to translated every word, it aims for readability and literary value in the target language. Also, while translating the grammatical structure of the source language, OE does not fear...

Yeah. He once wrote and asked me why I wasn't in the DBS. I didn't write back. There are several reasons, but perhaps the main one is that when his father died, he kept on the DBS website (A Response To A Critique of “Word-For-Word Translating”) the vicious personal attack against me and our...

"Strong's" is a leading Baptist systematic theology, but well over a hundred years old now. Thus, it is behind the times in many ways, but will be useful to you. It's a good place to start, anyway. It was the textbook the prof used when I first took a systematic theology course back in 1976...

There are two Greek words there, in a prepositional phrase with the preposition ἐν. Here is the full phrase: ἐν τῇ κυριακῇ ἡμέρᾳ. The word κυριακος originally "pertaining to the lord," or "imperial," referring to the first day of the month in the Roman emperor's (the "lord") calendar. The second...

Rev. 1:10a--"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day...."