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<blockquote data-quote="doubtingmerle" data-source="post: 57141293" data-attributes="member: 6687"><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Can you please give me an example of a geneaolgy of a king, in which the Greek word son is used to mean son-in-law?</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Though they had no word for son-in-law, but they did have a word for "Mary"! It would have been very easy to say Jesus was the son of Mary who was the son of Heli. That would have cleared up a lot of confusion. Instead folks need to come up with the contrived explanation that in this one special case, the word son means son-in-law.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">And in Galations Paul refers to the seed of Abraham, which in the original context meant many descendents, but Paul uses it to mean Christ only. If Paul can completely rip this verse about seed out of context, and assign it a metaphorical meaning that has nothing to do with the original, why could not he be doing something similar in Romans?</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doubtingmerle, post: 57141293, member: 6687"] [FONT=Arial][/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Can you please give me an example of a geneaolgy of a king, in which the Greek word son is used to mean son-in-law?[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Though they had no word for son-in-law, but they did have a word for "Mary"! It would have been very easy to say Jesus was the son of Mary who was the son of Heli. That would have cleared up a lot of confusion. Instead folks need to come up with the contrived explanation that in this one special case, the word son means son-in-law.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]And in Galations Paul refers to the seed of Abraham, which in the original context meant many descendents, but Paul uses it to mean Christ only. If Paul can completely rip this verse about seed out of context, and assign it a metaphorical meaning that has nothing to do with the original, why could not he be doing something similar in Romans?[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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