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Originally Posted by MDOC
Not just words, man. The spirit and the power of it by the Holy Ghost.
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Which come through the words! What is being ignored here is that the
very words are the
vessels for the "meaning, message," etc etc that is said to matter more than the words. It is sheer nonsense to say that the words are less important than the "message" or the "meaning." The words are how God chose to
convey the message. In fact, we must care for the words, because the message is not always clear. We must have the
exact words God used to give the meaning if we are to tell what the meaning is with surety. It is the
words God promised to preserve. It is the
words that we can count on to learn the meanings even when the translators did not understand the "message" they carried.