The fact that you lard your posts with personal attacks on my character and qualifications demonstrates your arguments are without merit.
These are not personal attacks. A personal attack would be something like "you are ugly and your momma dresses you funny." I am certainly not saying that. You may be quite handsome and you may dress yourself to the nines.
It is not an attack to point out a deficiency. It is especially not an attack when someone calls into question your self-stated abilities, in Greek, in this case. No, this isn't an attack, this is stating the obvious.
If you will notice, I have never mentioned anything about your character, mostly because you've never claimed anything about your character. No, you claimed that you knew Greek--an assertion easily disproven. Disproving a fallacious claim (or an over-inflated opinion of one's abilities) is not an attack.
That you don't know the difference suggests you are playing the martyr, saying "that meanie is beating me up because of who I am." In actuality, I am taking you to task for claiming to be something you are not.
First I never claim or suggest I have any expertise in Greek grammar. Your posts demonstrate that your claimed expertise serves only to use argument from authority which as you know is a logical fallacy.
That you have no expertise in Greek grammar is plain for all to see.
Here, again, you play the martyr. It is not a logical fallacy to use an argument from authority when you can work the text as an authority. You probably should learn what this logical fallacy actually is. Here's a link to a simple presentation (
here).
You have convinced me that "for salvation" is the compliment and not as firstfruit.
So we have the object being "you" and the compliment being "for salvation." Chose you is complimented by the purpose statement for salvation. Yet none of this has anything to do with our difference.
But, you should understand that I do, indeed, know more than you when it comes to Greek grammar and syntax. While I'm not infallible, I am well-researched.
And think: You don't even have to pay me for these free Greek lessons!
The rest of your "technical" argument is all assertion and no substance as my post demonstrated.
It isn't assertion. It is established grammatical fact that you are unable to engage, refute, or comment on. That you disagree with the substance of the text leads you to dismiss the arguments of myself (and Mounce) out-of-hand. That is rather small on your part.
For the record, I do have a Master's Degree in this stuff. While that doesn't make me an expert, it does put me ahead of many, especially those in your position. It isn't like I'm a plumber trying my hand at Greek. I have been trained and I still keep up with it.
And...that's not an "attack." It is a simple fact.
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