Featured Is 1 Timothy 6:16 Poorly Translated?

Total shift of subject, trying to avoid the fact "eternity" has more than one meaning, and one of its meanings is having a beginning but no end.

 

The idea that because Christ is eternal, and we are "in Christ" that eliminates our beginning has no basis in scripture or logic. Scripture refers to those in Christ as once being children of wrath, therefore referring to our mortal beginning.

1 Corinthians 12:13 refers to the fact we are "in" an eternal being, and we have been sealed within that being with another eternal person, but at the same time refers to our beginning, before we were given eternal life.

1 Corinthians 6:17 says the one being joined to the Lord is one spirit. The idea is we possess the same zeal for godliness, fully committed to being Christ-like. The verse does not suggest we become Christ's Spirit with no beginning.

Hebrews 9:14 simply says Christ's Spirit is eternal, which is not in dispute.

As far as the electrical circuit illustration, if you choose an AC circuit, it illustrates your mistaken view, but if you choose an electrical circuit in a vehicle, a DC circuit, the juice only flows one direction.

 

Fine, you certainly can posses or have a point of view, but you cannot demonstrate or confer immortality. Only one of our graves is empty, the tomb with the stone rolled open. And the "devil's immortality" will be demonstrated with eternal suffering in the Lake of Fire, Revelation 20:10

 

Note to put too fine a point on it, but the KJV has "dwelling in the light which no man can approach" which "adds" lots of words, if that is your point. A more literal translation might read "making his home in light inaccessible" or "making his home in inaccessible light." While nearly every translation has "in" I did see one that skated the issue with "inhabiting inaccessible light."

 

Please stop with your off topic "taint so" posts. Any dictionary or lexicon supports my view, your view of a single meaning is not to be found. While eternal does mean without beginning or end, it also has the meaning of never ending, i.e. our eternal life where we shall not perish.

 

So the translation into English did not necessitate "in" and nearly every translation added it as a whim? And what about inhabiting inaccessible light?

Folks, the use of "in" is a non-issue. According to Mounce, the Greek word translated dwelling means to dwell in or inhabit, so dwelling in is not actually an addition but just an accurate translation.

In summary, 1 Timothy 6:16 translation choices could be improved as follows:

"the One demonstrating immortality, dwelling in inaccessible light, whom no human has seen or can see, to Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen"

 

Apparently the subject is being changed from the claimed "add" of "in" to the implication the translation choices offered for 1 Timothy 6:16 somehow says Jesus is not the light of the world. Why such deflections are being posted is beyond me.

"the One demonstrating immortality, dwelling in inaccessible light, whom no human has seen or can see, to Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen"