[B-Greek] NWT: Is it an accurate translation of the Greek?

Arthur King amgking at sbcglobal.net
Fri Feb 24 14:18:26 EST 2006


I am not aware of any context in John's gospel, or in any other NT
text,  for rendering "QEOS" as "a god" in John 1:1. 
Would it not be reasonable to expect that John or some other NT writer
would have mentioned who or what is/are the other god/gods in the
implied Christian pantheon? 

Arthur King

--- Joe R <joseph.ripley at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> It seems there are arguments for "a god" or not.  I have been reading
> 
> about the Arian controversy
> and it seems the Arians used the argument that hO QEOS was reserved
> for 
> the Almighty and QEOS
> was used for a lesser god. But I don't remember what was said about
> the 
> counter argument.
> 
> At the end of the day few will be persuaded by argument, we all have
> our 
> gut feeling about it.
> One thing puzzles me is why we assume they were more enlightened in
> the 
> 4th than in the 1st
> century. They had an Emperor at and presiding over their meetings but
> 
> most of us believe that
> Paul and the others were being inspired by God when they wrote what
> are 
> our Scriptures.
> 
> Thanks -- Joe Ripley, Glasgow, Scotland.
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