Originally posted by npetreley:
"a word of Christ" takes liberties with what is written -- in fact, "the word of Christ" took enough liberties, and now you added more by changing it to "a word of Christ". I guess you didn't waste your money on a Bible after all.
The word is "theos" which is God, not Christ.... It says the utterance "rhema" of God.
Your comments only reveal you ignorance of the original language. My quote of this passage was directly from the most accepted Greek text. Read this artical:
The Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version) utilizes the Textus Receptus ("Received Text") as the basis for the Greek New Testament. The Textus Receptus is based upon various Greek texts as well as some influence by the Latin Vulgate. The earliest work being prepared by Desiderius Erasmus, revised by Robert Estienne (better known as Stephanus), and further revised by Theodore Beza. The text produced by each, is substantially the same, there are some variations between their various editions. The KJV utilizes the Stephanus 1550 edition.
Many of the newer more reliable translations are based upon Alexandrian texts. This site also provides the Greek text based upon such Alexandrian texts, noting however that the King James Version is not based upon such texts. The Alexandrian based text that is shown is the combined Westcott-Hort / Nestle-Aland 26th edition variants.
All three of my Greek text and both of my Greek-English Interlinears use the word "Kristos" not "Theo" and the word for "word" or "rhema" is declined as follows:
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Lexicon Results for rhema (Strong's 4487)
Greek for 4487
Pronunciation Guide
rhema {hray'-mah}
TDNT Reference Root Word
TDNT - 4:69,505 from 4483
Part of Speech
n n
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) that which is or has been uttered by the
living voice, thing
spoken, word
a) any sound produced by the voice and having definite meaning
b) speech, discourse
1) what one has said
c) a series of words joined together into a sentence (a declaration of one's mind made in words)
1) an utterance
2) a saying of any sort as a message, a narrative
a) concerning some occurrence
2) subject matter of speech, thing spoken of
a) so far forth as it is a matter of narration
b) so far as it is a matter of command
c) a matter of dispute, case at law
Authorized Version (KJV) Translation Count — Total: 70AV - word 56, saying 9, thing 3, no thing + 3756 1, not tr 1; 70
The translation "utterance" is not used by most reliable scholarly translations. The word "Rhema" connotes more of a spoken audiable word such as Christ's teachings. It is not used as any kind of Spiritual inabiling as you make it seem.
For example here is the same word "rhema" used in Mat 26:75
And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
English Strong's Greek (Root form) Tense
And [2532] kai
Peter [4074] Petros
remembered [3415] mnaomai
the word [4487] rhema
of Jesus, [2424] Iesous
Notice Nick it doesn't say the "logos" of Christ. When you speak about things you obviously haven't studied you only reveal your ignorance on the subject.
