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Originally Posted by UntoHim
Examples of LSM’s Etymological Errors
Example #1 Ekklesia—“Called-out Assembly” ...It [ekklesia] simply means congregation or assembly and refers to a gathering of people, really any people, yet in the NT that group of people happens to be Christians...
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I have written on this so many times that it bores me, but Tomes apparently has not paid attention. The NT ALSO uses the word 'ekklesia' when talking about a group of people who happen to NOT be Christians.
See in Acts 19:41. "and with these word he dismissed the assembly" This was an assembly of people who were NOT Christians but the physician Luke called them an 'ekklesia'. Why? Because it was a gathering, a meeting, an assembly. It was a bunch of people stuck together, temporarily, for some purpose. In this case it was a mob, a near-riot, but no matter (and I've been in Pentacostal meetings that could have been mistaken for riots).
Jesus said, "On this rock I will build MY ekklesia." There are other ekklesia (meetings), too, but the ones that gather in Jesus' name are HIS ekklesia.
Lastly, Tomes' stressing the "out" part of "called-out" seems to be much ado about very little. It is well known that Lee got paid by the word, so of course he's going to make hay out of "called-out". Every meeting, or gathering, is "called out" of something else. It is a tautology; it is irrelevant. Lee talked about it to make some messages to sell to the gullible public. But who cares?
A football crowd in Denver Colorado is perforce called "out of" the city of Denver and environs, to "gather into" a stadium and watch the Broncos play. Who cares? Only someone like Lee who gets paid by the word.
The guy was an amateur (I am too, but I write for free). He would use all kinds of tricks to make "filler" to flesh out his messages. One of his tricks was to say what the writer said, usually about 3 times, then say, "If I was writing this, I wouldn't say that
"repeats the phrase for the 4th time", but rather I would have said "X"; but the writer was led by the Holy Spirit of God to write it that way." See how much ink he just spilled? Just to say nothing. Just what to tell us what he, Lee, would have written if he had written the Bible. Which he didn't. Well guess what? I didn't write the Bible either, and I'm not going to convene meetings, and print messages and sell them, telling the public what I would have written but did not.
So we are left with:
1. Lee was an amateur.
2. He got paid by the word (Message).
3. Therefore Lee did a lot of storytelling, and pretended it was authoritative.
Thank you Mr. Tomes for telling us what we already knew. Do you have an alternative to Mr. Lee's Just So Stories? Anything interesting to say, or positive? Or are you just going to continue sniping at Mr. Lee?
I am sorry that I didn't read the whole essay but I didn't see it going anywhere useful.