Clayboy on the Preacher’s Fallacy
Clayboy has an informative and well-written post about the mistakes that often follow after someone tries the “what the Greek really says” argument:
One of the biggest warning flags in a sermon comes when the preacher says: “Now, in Greek, the word is … which (literally) means …” Sometimes they know what theyre talking about. More often they are about to pull a fast one.
And by the way, “informative and well-written” after “Clayboy” almost goes without saying.
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Dr. Joel M. Hoffman is the chief translator for the ten-volume series My People’s Prayer Book, author of And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible’s Original Meaning, and editor of The Unabridged Bible. Writing under “J.M. Hoffman,” he is author of the thriller series The Warwick Files. He holds a PhD in theoretical linguistics and has taught at Brandeis University and HUC-JIR in New York City. He presents widely to churches, synagogues, and other groups. more…
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The most annoying and oft-repeated is the “it is finished” where the claim is usually made that “the Greek” says “paid in full.”
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