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Subject: John 1:1
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unquiet1 28.05.10 - 10:11am
facts show that John did not say ''Jesus is God'' but that the word was god which is intended to mean the word was divine.
The facts will reveal that the most respected scholars of the Trinitarian world do themselves insist that John was not indicating'who' the word was but 'what' the word was.
without going into details of Koine greek language just look at how other bibles from the past have translated this.
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unquiet1 28.05.10 - 10:12am
John 1:1 from different bibles
'the Word was Divine' (Goodspeed, E.J. An American Translation N.T. 1923).
'the Logos was Divine' (Moffatt, J. The Bible 1950).
'And what God was, the Word was' (New English Bible 1961).
'the Word was Divine' (Schonfield, H.L. Authentic N.T. 1956).
'The Word was with God and shared his nature' (Translator's N.T. 1973).
'and the word was a god. (The New Testament in an Improved Version, Upon the Basis of Archbishop Newcome's New Translation: With a Corrected Text. 1808)
'and a god was the word.' (The Emphatic Diaglott, interlinear reading, by Benjamin Wilson.1864)
'and the nature of the Word was the same as the nature of God' (Barclay, W. N.T. 1968).
We have an abundant testimony from leading Trinitarian and Non Trinitarian shcolars. Notice how these scholars unanimously agree that John is not indicating who the Word was ('God') but what the Word was (divine). *
unquiet1 28.05.10 - 10:21am
when you as a human have a son.... will your son be human or be a reptile....? your son will be human. the same substance as you are. but he will not be you! John 1:1 highlights the quality of the Word, that he was 'divine,' 'godlike,' 'a god,' but not Almighty God. This harmonizes with the rest of the Bible, which shows that Jesus, here called 'the Word' in his role as God's Spokesman, was an obedient subordinate sent to earth by his Superior, Almighty God. *
unquiet1 28.05.10 - 10:23am
There are many other Bible verses in which almost all translators in other languages consistently insert the article 'a' when translating Greek sentences with the same structure. For example, at Mark 6:49, when the disciples saw Jesus walking on water, the King James Version says: 'They supposed it had been a spirit.' In the Koine Greek, there is no 'a' before 'spirit.' But almost all translations in other languages add an ''a'' in order to make the rendering fit the context. In the same way, since John 1:1 shows that the Word was with God, he could not be God but was 'a god,' or 'divine.' *
unquiet1 28.05.10 - 10:27am
Joseph Henry Thayer, a theologian and scholar who worked on the American Standard Version Bible, stated simply: The Logos was divine, not the divine Being himself.'' And Jesuit John L. McKenzie wrote in his Dictionary of the Bible: ''Jn 1:1 should rigorously be translated . . . 'the word was a divine being.''' *
