Acts 13.48

[Athanasius]

If you're searching for the "serious bible student"

I would opine that almost every here qualifies as a "serious bible student".

Almost, absolutely. I, of course, must be excluded for being the token Hebrews 10:26er. But the rest of you, you know, you're pretty good

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Oh, this was the opinion of someone the other day who decided I had gone about ameliorating my GD in the wrong way.

[Fenris]

Almost, absolutely. I, of course, must be excluded for being the token Hebrews 10:26er. But the rest of you, you know, you're pretty good

Being able to make such an obscure reference seems to me to be able to qualify as a "serious bible student".

[Athanasius]

Almost, absolutely. I, of course, must be excluded for being the token Hebrews 10:26er. But the rest of you, you know, you're pretty good

Being able to make such an obscure reference seems to me to be able to qualify as a "serious bible student".

That's a popular one among the Christians, surely?!

[IMINXTC]

Certainly shows the dearth of comprehensive, well rounded bible education today

[Fenris]

That's a popular one among the Christians, surely?!

Not being a Christian, I wouldn't know.

[Mr.E]

Salvation has no relationship to election. The nation of Israel was a chosen nation but surely not all Jews were saved. Jesus elected the 12 disciples and said that one of them is the devil. Not all disciples were saved. Election is to be placed in a privileged position in the plan of God, not including salvation since believing the Gospel message is optional.

A serious student in my definition is one who has disciplined himself to study and understand the original language of NT. He must have a very strong grasp of NT Greek.

[RabbiKnife]

A shame so many dont meet your standard

For guess I’m not a serious student

Shucks

[Fenris]

A serious student in my definition is one who has disciplined himself to study and understand the original language of NT. He must have a very strong grasp of NT Greek.

What about Hebrew? Yeah or nah?

The peculiar thing is that the characters in the NT most certainly did not speak Greek. They spoke Aramaic, although they certainly were also fluent in Hebrew.

[Athanasius]

Salvation has no relationship to election. The nation of Israel was a chosen nation but surely not all Jews were saved. Jesus elected the 12 disciples and said that one of them is the devil. Not all disciples were saved. Election is to be placed in a privileged position in the plan of God, not including salvation since believing the Gospel message is optional.

A serious student in my definition is one who has disciplined himself to study and understand the original language of NT. He must have a very strong grasp of NT Greek.

I once had a professor introduce his (postgrad) textual criticism class in Aramaic, and having finished, said in English, "if you didn't understand what I just said, leave". Not a single person left, but not a single person could tell him what he said -- and the class continued.

Why just Greek? Why not Hebrew, and Aramaic -- and I see Fenris has beat me to the punch, but here we are.

[RabbiKnife]

Salvation has no relationship to election. The nation of Israel was a chosen nation but surely not all Jews were saved. Jesus elected the 12 disciples and said that one of them is the devil. Not all disciples were saved. Election is to be placed in a privileged position in the plan of God, not including salvation since believing the Gospel message is optional.

A serious student in my definition is one who has disciplined himself to study and understand the original language of NT. He must have a very strong grasp of NT Greek.

I once had a professor introduce his (postgrad) textual criticism class in Aramaic, and having finished, said in English, "if you didn't understand what I just said, leave". Not a single person left, but not a single person could tell him what he said -- and the class continued.

Why just Greek? Why not Hebrew, and Aramaic -- and I see Fenris has beat me to the punch, but here we are.

Oooo, I can interpret!!!

“Fenris punched Athanasius first!”

Did I do that right?

[Athanasius]

Salvation has no relationship to election. The nation of Israel was a chosen nation but surely not all Jews were saved. Jesus elected the 12 disciples and said that one of them is the devil. Not all disciples were saved. Election is to be placed in a privileged position in the plan of God, not including salvation since believing the Gospel message is optional.

A serious student in my definition is one who has disciplined himself to study and understand the original language of NT. He must have a very strong grasp of NT Greek.

I once had a professor introduce his (postgrad) textual criticism class in Aramaic, and having finished, said in English, "if you didn't understand what I just said, leave". Not a single person left, but not a single person could tell him what he said -- and the class continued.

Why just Greek? Why not Hebrew, and Aramaic -- and I see Fenris has beat me to the punch, but here we are.

Oooo, I can interpret!!!

“Fenris punched Athanasius first!”

Did I do that right?

Almost, it was

"Fenris will punch Athanasius first!"

[RabbiKnife]

Salvation has no relationship to election. The nation of Israel was a chosen nation but surely not all Jews were saved. Jesus elected the 12 disciples and said that one of them is the devil. Not all disciples were saved. Election is to be placed in a privileged position in the plan of God, not including salvation since believing the Gospel message is optional.

A serious student in my definition is one who has disciplined himself to study and understand the original language of NT. He must have a very strong grasp of NT Greek.

I once had a professor introduce his (postgrad) textual criticism class in Aramaic, and having finished, said in English, "if you didn't understand what I just said, leave". Not a single person left, but not a single person could tell him what he said -- and the class continued.

Why just Greek? Why not Hebrew, and Aramaic -- and I see Fenris has beat me to the punch, but here we are.

Oooo, I can interpret!!!

“Fenris punched Athanasius first!”

Did I do that right?

Almost, it was

"Fenris will punch Athanasius first!"

Rats.   I never could conjugate all those verb tenses…

[Athanasius]

Salvation has no relationship to election. The nation of Israel was a chosen nation but surely not all Jews were saved. Jesus elected the 12 disciples and said that one of them is the devil. Not all disciples were saved. Election is to be placed in a privileged position in the plan of God, not including salvation since believing the Gospel message is optional.

A serious student in my definition is one who has disciplined himself to study and understand the original language of NT. He must have a very strong grasp of NT Greek.

I once had a professor introduce his (postgrad) textual criticism class in Aramaic, and having finished, said in English, "if you didn't understand what I just said, leave". Not a single person left, but not a single person could tell him what he said -- and the class continued.

Why just Greek? Why not Hebrew, and Aramaic -- and I see Fenris has beat me to the punch, but here we are.

Oooo, I can interpret!!!

“Fenris punched Athanasius first!”

Did I do that right?

Almost, it was

"Fenris will punch Athanasius first!"

Rats.   I never could conjugate all those verb tenses…

Well it was prophetic, you know.

[IMINXTC]

• Comparing scripture with contextual  scripture trumps greekspeak everytime.