question for the scholars out there

I'd be happy to help, but I don't know any similar Greek word. Can you give us more information? What is it supposed to mean? Where is it used in the NT? :type:

 

Can't help much, for I ain't no scholar! And I don't know the context, exactly, but would say this (and have a much easier word for you, as well) in answer.

A 'doctrine,' that is not clearly spelled out in Scripture, is merely an "opinion."

I'd guess you will not need "phonetic spelling" to understand this word.

Ed

 

The closest I can come for you with this information is hodoiporeo, which means "to travel, journey" (Thayer's lexicon). It is only used in Acts 10:9, where Peter went up on the rooftop to pray as Cornelius "journeyed" towards him. Does that ring a bell?

 

Maybe something from the root "oida", which is "to have information about" or "know".

JoJ mentioned another good possibility for what you're talking about.

Maybe something with the root "ode", which is a reference to an entity viewed as present or near in terms of the narrative context.

 

Ed you are one funny character. I love reading your posts. :thumbs:

 

Thanks, but this one was not meant to be especially humorous, for "unspelled out doctrine" is, in fact, and at best, nothing more than bias, opinion or preference, I would say.

Ed

 

I would agree, but it was still funny . :applause:

 

adiaphoron

 

1. Now this is the only passage that I know fit what you described:τον δε ασθενουντα τη πιστει προσλαμβανεσθε μη εις διακρισεις διαλογισμων
(Romans 14:1).

2. "Now accept the one who is weak in the faith, and do no quarrel over disputation matters" (Rom 14:1, TCG).

3. μη εις διακρισεις διαλογισμων : Do not argue over opinions/disputable matters.

 

Jerome got it. But EdSutton was almost as close.

 

Nope. Can't find this in any Greek lexicon, classical or koine.

 

It's a Lutheran thang.

 

:laugh:
And here I don't speak Lutheran! Shucks.

 

The Lutherans had a fuss back in Melancthon's day over how much Catholicism had to be abandoned and how much could be retained. Those things which were deemed indifferent (such as, we might say, singing the Gloria Patri) were called adiaphora. Why they chose a Greek word instead of a Latin one is beyond me, but the Lutherans have kept the word until this day and use it whenever somebody wants to start doing something that they formerly couldn't.

It always helps if you can state your position in Greek or Latin. The aura of authority glows like a sunrise and detractors are left speechless. If they admit that they don't understand the word, it makes you look smarter than they. If they try to bluff, they'll wind up mispronouncing it. :thumbs:

 

Shazzam! You 'da man, Pipedude. I hereby appoint you the BB resident scholar on Catholic/Lutheran Greek words!

 

Talk about being a big fish in a small pond . . . This is even less prestigious than when I was the New Leader of Fundamentalism.

I need a non-English name for this position to add that aura of authority I mentioned. Somethig like schola residenta de verborum grecorum catholicorum luteranorum, or some Greeky equivalent. But since my new field is now historical dogmatics, I hearby delegate today's wordsmithing to any volunteers who want to take a stab at it.

Absum!

 

Naw, let's not be pretentious. Let's just go with an acronym, one that even upgrades you a little bit from just Latin and Greek words: the gracious and honorable Pipedude, "Resident Scholar of Lutheranism and Catholicism"-- RESLUCP (pro. "re-slop"). :type: :applause: :applause: :applause: