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The phrases "everlasting life" and "eternal life" come from two Greek words, the adjective, aionios (αἰώνιος), which doesn't really mean "eternal," and the noun, zoe (ζωή), a word meaning "living" both in the sense of existence and "making a living." Jesus uses these words…
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When we read the word "hypocrites" in the NT, we think we understand what Jesus is saying. But the English word “hypocrite” is an untranslated Greek…
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In the first article in this series, I discussed how the word “eternity” doesn’t really mean “eternity” in the sense we use it today. In the second…
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The Greek words translated as "glorify" and "glory" are from the same Greek root, but the translation of that root as "glory" is misleading. The English…
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In analyzing the verse John 14:12 (He that believes in me…), I noticed something very strange. A deeper analysis showed that this oddity did not affect…
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The word “heart” is correctly translated in the Greek New Testament, but we can understand what it means more clearly with a little exploration. The…
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Jesus refers to the Greek words that are translated as “the Holy Spirit” only twelve times, but in these verses he uses the two keywords in four…
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Jesus uses the phrase “the son of the man” to refer to himself almost ninety times. He seems to do it largely for fun, the humorous use of illeism that…
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