Greek and Matthew 27:54 question

[gdemoss]

I wanted to do what I did not have the skills to do.

This is a very humble approach to solving the dilemma. I commend your asking others for help and realizing your own limitations. It is very possible that the Holy Spirit guided you to take this action whether you understood it as such or not. For this cause, I have sought the more tediously to confess my limitations verbally unto God and ask for his guidance in the matter directly. I am a lot more confident in the result that comes from my inquiries though it doesn't mean that I always immediately understand what I have been shown correctly. Many times I will think I understand when i have yet to receive all the data on the subject that I am being led to understand and think I have it when I do not. Only when I act upon an unfinished revelation do I end up with much regret.

That said, depending upon which part of the body you are, you have the skills necessary to preform the function of that part. I covet being the apple of his eye as that is the point at which light enters into the body, the pupil. Desiring wholly that his body be filled with his glorious light!

As I said earlier, I am careful not to condemn any translation out of hand because it is entirely possible that the Holy Spirit did choose to translate the whole translation using one person and also choose to render the verse in question as it has been presented. I do not have any inner witness of the Holy Ghost that is telling me that what I am reading here is wrong, only that it doesn't follow carnal rules of interpretation made by men.

As for what God uses to bring someone to the gospel, my own journey began by being 'tricked' into calling out unto him for help by the aid of his messengers in the rock music industry. I have seen the handy work of God clearer and clearer as my heart has become purer. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see (perceive) God. Careful not to speak evil about that which we might not understand as Gods ways are truly past finding out. Each time I have had him revealed in something that helped lead me out of the world and unto him, I have cried profusely at how hard he fought for my soul. I love him because he first loved me enough to leave a bread crumb trail that ended at the cross. Oh My God, what a savior!

Peace.

[JohnD]

I believe one of the wisdoms of the Bible is to know the real truth and see how those who do not know the real truth respond to a supernatural event recorded in scripture. Take Nebuchadnezzar for example. Did he really know God the way the Jews at the time did? Or better yet the way we know God today? But look at how the encounter with the true God affected him.... Son of the Gods a son of a god... the pagan Roman soldier called it as he saw it... something really spectacular took place and he signed off on it best he could. Gomer Pyle might have said "Shazam!"

What I am saying is that because it may not be theologically precise casts no shadow of doubt on what is true. The various ancient flood legends for example do not cast doubts on the Noachian flood. They support it as a matter of fact. They are the pass downs filtered through generations of human ignorance and superstition. The Genesis account is the eyewitness account as dictated to the scribe Moses by the God wh owas there to see it. The ancient myths and legends only support the facts by their testimony that there was an earth shattering flood way back when.

[JohnD]

Oh, and sometimes the Bible records a historic statement even if it is not accurate. Take the lies in the letter of Claudius Lysias to the Governor about how he rescued Paul when he was really about to turn him over to the Jews or beat the daylights out of him in a mini inquisition... oh yeah... there is that...

LOL

The Bible records what he wrote and you will notice with no editorial.