[B-Greek] John 20:28-29 - Defending against Arianism
Tony Costa
tmcos at rogers.com
Fri Aug 20 13:48:00 EDT 2004
Greg, the Greek text clearly shows that Thomas addressed this confession to
Jesus by the presence of the dative third person pronoun AUTWi "to him".
John 20:28 is believed by most NT scholars to be the climax of the Fourth
Gospel, the climax of John 1:1 where the Word is called QEOS "God". For a
good treatment of John 20:28 and the usage of "God" in refence to Jesus see
Murray J. Harris. "Jesus as God: The New Testament Use of Theos in Reference
to Jesus." (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1992) This passage has
been dealt with on this list at considerable length.
Tony Costa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Gunter" <g_gunter at yahoo.com>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 1:13 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] John 20:28-29 - Defending against Arianism
> I've been dealing with a person who does not hold to the deity of
> Christ and when I show him John 20:28-29 to show how Thomas had
> referred to Christ specifically as "My Lord and my God" he wants to
> side-step that by trying to claim that, based on the Greek text, Thomas
> is doing nothing more than proclaiming to God as his witness that Jesus
> did, in fact, arise from the dead...nothing more.
>
> Now, I know that that is a ridiculous interpretation and I don't need
> to know greek to know that but since I routinely get on to some of
> these guys (who wouldn't know greek from sanskrit) for trying to be
> little greek scholars by taking Stong's concordance out for every other
> word in the text, I would be grateful if some of you could provide me
> with your educated opinions on the Greek text here and why,
> grammatically, Thomas is referring to Christ as both Lord and God? More
> specifically, please explain why, based on the greek text, Thomas is
> referring to Jesus Christ directly as Lord and God?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Greg Gunter
>
> =====
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> if the participants could remember one thing: If you are going
> to disagree with a person's opinion you should at least be able
> to state that person's opinion to his satisfaction.
> -- Gregorious Maximus
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