Your use of the tq fallacy was obviously answering my posting the link to my study "Primer for the study of John1:1c" with absolutely no comments on the contents of that study (as explained in #18).
Your follow-up after I even posted the beginning of that study (#19), was the above (#23). How...
Why not start at the beginning:
John 1:1 Primer
For Grammatical Rules "Proving" the Trinity
John 1:1c - English translation: "The Word was God [or 'a god']."
- NT Greek: θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος
---------------"god was the word."
The NT Greek word for "God" and "god" is theos (θεὸς). In the writings...
After receiving a link to one of my personal studies of John's understanding of John 1:1c containing many steps which could be examined and discussed honestly, S.Z. wrote:
S.Z.: "That looks like a Jehovah's Witness source. Not exactly reliable. You should try to see what actual biblical...
I am a JW, but as noted at the beginning of most of my studies, this is not taken from JW sources, but is written from mostly all sources by trinitarian scholars (cited) or my own careful study of trinitarian sources (NT Greek Grammars, NT Greek Interlinears, Concordances, etc.). Even a minimal...
Yes, as even many trinitarian NT experts admit, a man or an angel who is serving God may be called a god.
This leads, of course, to the honest (but hated by many) translation of John 1:1c - "And the Word was a god."
My own personal studies:
Examining the Trinity
John 1:1c Primer - For...
Some trinitarian sources which admit that the Bible actually describes men who represent God (judges, faithful Israelite kings, etc.) and God’s angels as gods (or a god) include:
1. Young’s Analytical Concordance of the Bible, “Hints and Helps...,” Eerdmans, 1978 reprint;
2. Strong’s...
John 1:1c does not say "the Word was God."
Honest translations would say, according to John's use of NT Greek grammar, "the Word was a god."
Examining the Trinity
http://examiningthetrinity.blogspot.com/2009/09/definite-john-11c.html
Logos (The 'Word')
“DECEMBER 25 - Neither scripture nor secular history records the date of Jesus’ birth; even the season of the year is not stipulated.# Some evidence points to spring, but it is not conclusive. The only thing reasonably certain about the coming of the Christ Child is that his birth did not...
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Matthew 7:13-14
King James Version
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and MANY there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which...
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DK20 You are not a scholar in any sense of the word. A scholar actually examines the evidence (especially of those who disagree with him). I am an expert in the study of John 1:1c as written by John in NT Greek. I have studied...
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Did I ask about how other (mostly trinitarian-translated) Bibles have rendered John 1:1c?
Why not actually carefully read my personal study of John's Greek usage which proves my statement??
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Examining the Trinity
John 1:1c is, according to the usage of John himself in all his writings, properly rendered into English as "and the Word was a god."
Examining the Trinity: John 1:1c Primer - For Grammatical Rules That...
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I believe that was covered in my posts. For those who rely on the KJV, Ps 83:18 should cover it also. It is considered by many as an influencing factor in the English language for the past 400 years.
If we cannot use "Jehovah as found in the...
And The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia writes:
“5. ‘Jehovah’ - The name most distinctive of God as the God of Israel is Jehovah .... The meaning may with some confidence be inferred ... to be that of the simple future, yahweh, ‘he will be.’ It does not express causation, nor...