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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
So to continue this discussion, let me just say that nothing that's been posted here so far - thanks for your partaking in this discussion - convinces me of the validity of substituting a different word (kirche - church) for the one that was written (ekklesia).
Seems pretty doggone simple to me, but maybe I'm missing something . . .  |
How about Paul's fellowship to Timothy, "
that you may know how to conduct yourself in the house of God, the church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth." (3.15)
And the writer of Hebrews, "
But Christ, as a Son over His house, whose house we are."
I'd like to have a dollar for every time I have seen word etymologies get used to provide distorted exposition.
This discussion has gone on far too long, but it's still been a good thing. Bible says to "test all things," (I Ths 5.21) and we have proven that "church" is not such a bad translation.
