Featured Harmony or Hostility?

LOL. Now that’s rich. My post quoted your post containing name-calling aimed at another poster and you claim it is a “flagrant attempt to insult” you! Sounds like an admission that your own behavior was not Christian behavior.

 

Just for the record, calling someone an “ignorant blowhard” is addressing them and not the topic. And now another post doubling down, repeating the insult, and even capitalizing the offense. Ah, a capital offense!

 

Perhaps some posts could be better worded in addressing the problem with that one.

It is wrongheaded to assume that all possible usages of a word (its full range of meanings) are valid choices for a given context. When dealing with a foreign language, one’s own may not be a good guide in making the decision.

Only someone very familiar with the language, as well as with the time and culture of the passage, will be able to make a good decision. In the case of the Bible, it may take experts from a variety of fields to provide enough information to determine the correct translation.

This doesn’t mean one cannot challenge the experts to find out what process they went through to determine their translation of a particular passage. However, that is not the same as being qualified to replace the results of the experts with inexpert results.

 

But what I have noticed is that none of you have addressed what @Van said but you just attack him. From what I have seen on this board that is a common approach of those that hold to the Calvinist view. Ad hominem attacks but not much in actual dealing with the subject of the OP.

From just a quick read @Van seems to have drawn reasonable conclusions from the text, if you disagree then give your reasons for doing so rather than just the standard Calvinist response. If you want to be taken seriously then start acting that way.

 

Then you haven’t been reading the responses to his threads. Several folks on this board are certainly very knowledgeable in biblical Greek and a couple actually teach it. Van has acknowledged he has no formal education in the biblical Greek and it shows in every thread he starts

They have spent countless time attempting to show Van why his analysis of the Greek isn’t appropriate according to the scholars view of Greek syntax.

Any such efforts are dismissed out of hand with personal attacks (duh!, taint so! false doctrine!! Accusations of being influenced by Calvinism! etc…)

And you parrot that attack by..

1. Claiming no one addresses his claims which is simply false

2. Claiming the “Calvinists” are attacking him.

Peace to you

 

My bad did not notice there were so many comments but as to the attacks on @Van that seems to be quite a common thing on this board. You may not agree with what he has said, I do not agree with him all the time. But do you think the personal attacks are helpful, I don't.

I have notice that most of the Ad hominem attacks come from the Calvinist side of the argument. Not a very Christian attitude.

You and I disagree most times but we do keep it civil even in disagreement.

 

I agree any personal attacks are unproductive. It flows in all directions.

peace to you