[B-Greek] You Are Smarter Than a Lexicon (?) The beat goes on...

Larry Heflin ljheflin at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jun 4 18:31:45 EDT 2010


I think the chorus is singing a rather cynical tune regarding the motive of the people who offer such tools and also of those who may use them. I just can't bring myself to share the indignation. It's a struggle enough to get people to read the Scriptures in their native language, so if someone has enough interest to dabble in the originals I will not discourage it. It's more likely to lead to something good than bad. Most of the people I know that are motivated enough to take an interest in such tools would not operate under the delusion that they are language experts, nor would they represent themselves as such simply because they do word studies, etc. They tend to recognize and give due respect to what is genuine based on more than the ability to sprinkle a message with a Greek word or two, or the pounding of an interlinear on a pulpit. There always has been and there always will be the dupees and the dupers. Historically, those who present
 the greatest threat have always been those with genuine skills who harm other experts as well as the sheep. If I may express my own cynicism, I am more cynical of those who walk the hallowed halls of acedemia than of those who built them. And if I might trespass into theology, hell no doubt is full of people fluent in Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, etc, and has no shortage of experts (1 Cor. 1:26-29). Or, maybe this is all just academic.

Larry Heflin, BaD


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