Okay, maybe I should have said, Understanding "genders" in relation to nouns in Greek is common knowledge for those of us who have learned Greek along the path of our Christian ministry.
no one said we should use dynamic of an english translation, of course we should use dynamic in comparison on greek not english. you point fails to make any sense, I repeatedly have shown you how two of your " good translations" contradict. So again your point fails. I am not going to talk about this particular piece of evidence as it is been refuted. I don't have much time these days, if you bring up another illustration I will adress that instead.
I have never studied greek, but I use blue letter bible to look up words in greek, then I can search them using various dictionaries and resources. but I am not an expert, and I doubt you are since you keep referring to greek 101 over and over again. I know how to look up tenses, and words but I cannot read greek. But like I said if you have a word for word translation, greek becomes less important, as if you are using the NIV which uses dynamic equivalent, and changes the words. But regardless I posted another example of where the NIV is missing a text from the greek and no one has decided even to defend the position of the modern translations, In this post:
The fact that you are not actually reading or comprehending my posts means that you are no longr open to debate. For.me to continue this conversation with you, you must admit two of your good translations contradicted. I posted it several posts back I won't repost it. If you can do that for me it will prove you are open minded enough to continue our discussion. However if you wish to reply to the verses in Matthew that the NIV omit, we can do that too. But you are not being fair with your repies. You are not actually adressing them or refuting them with facts, you are just negating them. Saying you disagree with something is not a refutation.
I refer to Greek 101 because you (who challenged me in another thread to defend your position from the Greek), appear to not even have knowledge of that which is covered in Basic Greek (101).
So ok, you know more greek than me. Is that what you want to know? Can we be done? You obviously can't reply to my post about the NIV leaving out fasting and prayer from the new testament. I shouldn't have to explain the implications of that to you, you should already know if you are a student of the scripture. But just look up the importance of fasting and prayer in the life of a believer and google why the NIV leaves it out, why the NASB and ESV leave it out. I am not in the least bit intimidated by greek, 99% of Greek is a click away. What I am concerned about is your pride. You seem to belittle others based on you own deficiencies. See if I didn't have a reply to the logical posts here but could belittle my opponents knowledge of Greek to steer the topic away from the premises of the thread I could. But the Holy Spirit would convict me not to. Because knowledge of tenses is not really the topic at hand. I already admitted that the post was in error, and corrected it. Yet you pose to rub in the fact that I didn't do one more click of the mouse and find out the Greek to find out basic greek tenses can mean girl or boy. I gueas like I said, having a reliable translation has lessened my need to study greek. But if I was stuck using the NIV for example I would be required to know more greek because of all the changes it made. There are over 10,000 changes between the NIV and an interlinear of the textus receptus.
Ok so two translations both = a good translation. So 2T= GT, but 1T does not equal the other 1T. Two of your English translations say different things. So both of them cannot be a good translation. It's basic logic here, and if you can't see this then there is no need to discuss this further. Thanks for the debate.
that would be most modern translations, why would you not like it?
check out this unbiased study on byzantine text type. He went out to disprove byzantine text type and ended up endorsing it:
I suggest you at least read it, and try to debunk it. I doubt you can. Whatever you have read is not like this. This is the best argument I have found, I have searched a bunch.
