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Evidence for what? No one in Christian circles or Theological academia is arguing for wax candles or suggesting that John saw wax candles. Even KJVO people say he saw oil based lampstand but they say it does not change the meaning to use Candlestick. I would agree if they define candlestick...

I am only interested in reading those English translations that involved a large committee of expert scholars that followed strict documented rules in translating. Read about how a translation like the NIV gets accomplished. The details will reveal that many of your concerns are not...

He's probably right. I will let you know in about three years. :) It doesn't really make any difference to me. I already knew that God was telling me "as I go" which is how I live. I don't feel that God is telling me that I am breaking a command because I am not booking a plane to another...

The Greek word? How it is used in the Greek language particularly in the 1st Century when John wrote. It's not that difficult to find the supporting documents from other Greek writings to prove it was always about oil fed lamps and not wax candles.

I don't think you understand the definition of a dynamic equivalent from the perspective of bible translators. Read that book I mentioned it explains it way different than what you keep saying. The rewording of a sentence to maintain the Greek meaning is in effect a dynamic equivalent. A...

That does not make sense. They don't use the same words as English.

Still same point. It has been translated candlestick. If they thought that oil fed lamps were also called candles then that would be fine. Did they? I don't know. If they though that Candles were wax then they would be wrong. That is an oil fed lamp with branches and bulbs to hold oil.

It would just end up as an argument over the word Hermeneutics being man made. LOL.

It's an English word that did not exist at the time the Greek or Hebrew was written. Your goal is to ascertain what the author meant when he used the Hebrew or Greek word that he used. Instead you are trying to use English translators using the word Candle as support for using the word...

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No, he is a believer and one of the foremost experts in Koine Greek and the manuscripts today. A born again believer in the inspiration of the Word of God. Yes he is an authority on how to translate Greek to English. And I have no idea why you are using the word "saith." Are you having a...

Why do you insist that KJV is Word for Word? Here is a random verse, (the one that happened to be displayed in my BibleHub app) KJV Luke 10:1 1After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would...

That's not how translations work. Read that book I mentioned and do be That is very encouraging coming from someone who has been there and knows what they are talking about. I am not dreading it as much now. I think my school uses Bill Mounce textbooks.

Yes my intention is to show people how to present a case for an interpretation using the rules of hermeneutics. It is the only way to identify authorial intent and by doing so have the "lightbulb" that we all want switch on. If it can be understood that is. Some things are always going to be...

That's why it has to be a relatively new subject matter. Like an interpretation of a particular passage that hasn't been beaten to death in CC already. An often misquoted verse that people use and when you hear them you think... "That is not what that means" but they want to argue about it...

I hope we can come up with something new, that we all can learn from by debating it because it is unfamiliar scriptures for most people. For example I don't want to debate speaking in tongues because everyone is tired of that one. Something we have not debated much or at all would be more...

She called him Son of David so she had a significant amount of Jewish biblical knowledge and was referring to his status as the one promised messiah to come. This title reveals deeper Jewish biblical understanding than Master, or Teacher or Rabbi. It suggests that she might have been either...

Let's find something you and I disagree about concerning the correct interpretation of a verse or passage, and I will start a thread with a voting poll with our names and people can vote on who they think is doing a better job of presenting the correct interpretation.

Start a thread to debate a topic with someone and put your name and the opponent in the poll for votes. Let people vote on who they think is doing a better job. Set it so people can change their vote.

You don't realize that you are not using the Thayer's Greek Lexicon correctly when you think it is supporting the correctness of translating it as candlestick. Just because you see the word candlestick there in that article does not mean that is the word John used. It is telling you how the...