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| Asurprise Registered user Username: Asurprise Post Number: 1659 Registered: 7-2007 |
I wanted to repost something that I've written before on another thread, because of it's importance: Adventists take the word "pneuma," translated "spirit," and say that means "air." They use examples like pneumonia, and pneumatic, etc. to "show that spirit means air." But they're not really READING the Bible! For example, I looked up 1st Corinthians 2:11 and also looked in my Greek/English New Testament. Both of the words "spirit" and "Spirit" come from the Greek "pneuma". "For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God." 1st Corinthians 2:11 In effect, Adventists are calling the Holy Spirit the "Holy Breath!" That little Beginning Greek class that I audited really came in handy! (In class, we learned the sounds of the various letters. The text book has the letters and their sounds written out. I got an Interlinear Greek/English New Testament that shows the English translation under each Greek word.) Even a novice could look up the Greek letters and their sounds in my textbook ("Greek for the Rest of Us" by William D. Mounce) and then look at the Greek letters in the Greek/English New Testament. The word translated "spirit" even has the same number of letters as "pneuma" - p-n-e-u-m-a. Of course I looked in the books that I own, but I found something on the internet.... http://biblos.com/1_corinthians/2-11.htm I would like to add that a person is in 1st Thessalonians 5:23 "...spirit, soul and body..." Here's a website that shows the Greek alphabet with English sounds: http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/lessons/alphabet.html And here's another: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/greek.htm | ||
| Doc Registered user Username: Doc Post Number: 649 Registered: 2-2003  |
I know the guy who runs the omniglot site, he comes from Bangor in North Wales, where I lived for ten years. That's just by the way. You're quite right of course. I think a good verse for this is Romans 8: 16, "The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God." If the human spirit is impersonal, then that makes no sense at all. Adrian |
