04-30-2008, 04:04 PM
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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.
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It isn't being ignored, Diligent. I already answered it in post #48. The words ARE important, we DO need to take great care for them, and that is why we have to have the Bible updated from time to time, because over time they change their meaning and lose the ability to convey the message to new generations.
I put it this way in #48:
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It's simply a FACT that different English words in different times convey different shades of the truth and sometimes entirely different meanings, a fact so many here seem unwilling to recognize. The simple passage of time changes the meaning of words and thus changes the meaning of GOD's word. It can't be helped. The words, the individual words, DO matter, they matter a GREAT deal, they have to be ACCURATE, they have to convey what God meant to be conveyed, and if the original English words have changed their meanings they HAVE to be updated so that we CAN have the true individual words that convey the true meaning God intended.
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