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this is different but similar:
3rd Century Greek:
Acts 2:31 foreseeing, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that neither was he left in hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
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no mention of SOUL
KJV [textus receptus]
Acts 2:31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
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mentions SOUL
so the word ψυχή is added here!
3rd Century Greek:
Acts 2:31 foreseeing, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that neither was he left in hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
^
no mention of SOUL
KJV [textus receptus]
Acts 2:31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
^
mentions SOUL
so the word ψυχή is added here!
that's the important key here.
we know how the word ψυχή is supposed to be used by the Greek Texts. so any place we see where it's been added or has replaced another word we should immediately wonder why did this happen. for my own reasoning, i am thankful we do have the closest to the original Greek Text by what we read in Jerome's texts, the Septuagint, and the Creeds. so we know the consistency of how words are being used. that is our [Red Flag] moment when we see the English manipulate any specific word.
let's just be honest here. it is literally impossible that the original Greek is wrong.
the CREEDS alone are based off them!
so when the English translation changes over 251 Verses and adds over 1,000 words, it no longer is God's Holy Word we are reading! it's close. but not as authentic as the original Greek.
we know how the word ψυχή is supposed to be used by the Greek Texts. so any place we see where it's been added or has replaced another word we should immediately wonder why did this happen. for my own reasoning, i am thankful we do have the closest to the original Greek Text by what we read in Jerome's texts, the Septuagint, and the Creeds. so we know the consistency of how words are being used. that is our [Red Flag] moment when we see the English manipulate any specific word.
let's just be honest here. it is literally impossible that the original Greek is wrong.
the CREEDS alone are based off them!
so when the English translation changes over 251 Verses and adds over 1,000 words, it no longer is God's Holy Word we are reading! it's close. but not as authentic as the original Greek.
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what literally [[((DISTURBS))]] me the most about Concordances is for the most part any given word has multiple possible meanings.
WRONG!
when Jesus spoke or the Holy Spirit Inspired words to be written, THERE WAS ONLY ONE SINGLE MEANING AND PURPOSE!
this is why i have let my Strongs and Youngs become dust collectors. the 3rd Century Greek was translated how the WORD was meant to be understood. there's no possible second meanings. it is what it is. and that makes understanding God easier!
WRONG!
when Jesus spoke or the Holy Spirit Inspired words to be written, THERE WAS ONLY ONE SINGLE MEANING AND PURPOSE!
this is why i have let my Strongs and Youngs become dust collectors. the 3rd Century Greek was translated how the WORD was meant to be understood. there's no possible second meanings. it is what it is. and that makes understanding God easier!
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what Bible Translation are you using where Ephesians 6:6 has the word [SOUL] in it?
it can only be the Original Greek:
6 not according to eye-service as pleasing men, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul;
look at the KJV:
6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
the Greek already is translated correctly so no need for concordances.
it can only be the Original Greek:
6 not according to eye-service as pleasing men, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul;
look at the KJV:
6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
the Greek already is translated correctly so no need for concordances.
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The many English Bible versions including critical text and the Tr shows Eph. 6:6 translated the Greek psuche as "heart" (NIV, NASB, NKJV, etc), only the LSB, which has been derived from the YLb which is garbage to you have it. This seems to me that you are herding into trouble. You offered many in your post lapses but i restrained myself because they off topic. Now how would you explain conservative and critical scholars used to translate the Gk psuche as "heart" and not the "soul" in Ephesians 6:6? Thanks
Umm, how come you know it? Are you of caliber than those have translated them as heart? You are at odds my friend. I just suspect, you are still new to the bible version issue as the way you answer things, you even didn't consider that lsb were also based on the tr and masoretic text, though it got it wrong in Eph 6:6 as soul. Translation must also go for the context, if not this makes no sense.
One of the problems with translation is the English language itself. For example, Greek has three words for love, English has one. It's the same problem with the word "life. There are three words for life also.
The answer is in Genesis 2:7. God breathed the breath of life into man and he became a living being. The KJV says "living soul" but that is inaccurate. We know that man is a tripartite being, as is God. We are spirit, soul and body. There are 3 words for "life" in Greek. They are bios, physical life, pseuche, soul-life and zoe, which some scholars say that is the uncreated life of God that Jesus has in in Himself. For example, Lord says, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Zoe". I am convinced that this is correct.
When God created man, his human spirit was empty. Adam was alive physically. His soul was also alive, as evidenced by his ability to reason, show emotion and to choose. His body was also obviously alive. When Adam disobeyed, his spirit became submerged in his soul and remained inactive. So Adam lived out of his soul. This is also known as the "natural man".
English usage in KJV times was that "soul" and "life" were synonymous, hence "S.O.S.", which is an abbreviation for "save our souls." Likewise when referring to passengers on a ship, it was not unusual to refer to them as souls. It's not common usage now. So "soul" and "life" are synonymous.
Translators try to differentiate between the soul as the organ of expression and the life that resides in the soul, which makes us who we are as individuals. The first version of the NASB translated "pseuche" as "soul-life". I don't know why that changed. Now translators use context. My understanding is that "soul-life" is a perfectly good translation.
The soul is the means of expression, as I've said before. It is not in itself evil. However, the life of the soul is natural, not spiritual. Therefore is is ruled by the principle of the knowledge of good and evil. It is this principle that causes people to be independent of God, and therefore separated from God. Men do not understand why God would reject them. That is why the Holy Spirit has to convict of sin. People imagine that because they "do the best they can", God should not find fault. Christians know better!
Christians need to realise that the life of the soul is not acceptable to God. The way of the cross is to lose the soul life and replace it with the Life of Christ. This is a lifetime work that God performs. Our trials and troubles should cause us to realise that the soul life is inadequate and bring about more and more dependence on Jesus.
We have inbuilt desires, natural talents, likes and dislikes and we are a certain temperament type. We are born like this. When these natural inclinations clash with God's will, we face a crisis. If we choose self will according to natural desire, we will suffer loss. If we submit to God's will, even if it seems the worst thing possible, we will experience great gain.
Every Christian faces his own, personal "Gethsemane". Here his will and God's will seem implacably opposed. Jesus sought to escape God's will. Yet He said, "Not my will......" and won the greatest triumph ever. We also must capitulate at some time, and escape the snare of the natural man. We then become spiritual in experience.
The answer is in Genesis 2:7. God breathed the breath of life into man and he became a living being. The KJV says "living soul" but that is inaccurate. We know that man is a tripartite being, as is God. We are spirit, soul and body. There are 3 words for "life" in Greek. They are bios, physical life, pseuche, soul-life and zoe, which some scholars say that is the uncreated life of God that Jesus has in in Himself. For example, Lord says, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Zoe". I am convinced that this is correct.
When God created man, his human spirit was empty. Adam was alive physically. His soul was also alive, as evidenced by his ability to reason, show emotion and to choose. His body was also obviously alive. When Adam disobeyed, his spirit became submerged in his soul and remained inactive. So Adam lived out of his soul. This is also known as the "natural man".
English usage in KJV times was that "soul" and "life" were synonymous, hence "S.O.S.", which is an abbreviation for "save our souls." Likewise when referring to passengers on a ship, it was not unusual to refer to them as souls. It's not common usage now. So "soul" and "life" are synonymous.
Translators try to differentiate between the soul as the organ of expression and the life that resides in the soul, which makes us who we are as individuals. The first version of the NASB translated "pseuche" as "soul-life". I don't know why that changed. Now translators use context. My understanding is that "soul-life" is a perfectly good translation.
The soul is the means of expression, as I've said before. It is not in itself evil. However, the life of the soul is natural, not spiritual. Therefore is is ruled by the principle of the knowledge of good and evil. It is this principle that causes people to be independent of God, and therefore separated from God. Men do not understand why God would reject them. That is why the Holy Spirit has to convict of sin. People imagine that because they "do the best they can", God should not find fault. Christians know better!
Christians need to realise that the life of the soul is not acceptable to God. The way of the cross is to lose the soul life and replace it with the Life of Christ. This is a lifetime work that God performs. Our trials and troubles should cause us to realise that the soul life is inadequate and bring about more and more dependence on Jesus.
We have inbuilt desires, natural talents, likes and dislikes and we are a certain temperament type. We are born like this. When these natural inclinations clash with God's will, we face a crisis. If we choose self will according to natural desire, we will suffer loss. If we submit to God's will, even if it seems the worst thing possible, we will experience great gain.
Every Christian faces his own, personal "Gethsemane". Here his will and God's will seem implacably opposed. Jesus sought to escape God's will. Yet He said, "Not my will......" and won the greatest triumph ever. We also must capitulate at some time, and escape the snare of the natural man. We then become spiritual in experience.
Mostly because we are of a Western European mindset and not that of Ancient Near Eastern mindset we don't have a more accurate concept of a biblical "soul".
A person's soul is inclusive of body, heart, and spirit.
A spirit is somewhat similar to what we refer to today as disposition or even attitudes.
A heart is where your mind and your will meet up and cause actions. Sometimes your spirit will cause actions but usually its because your Will will teach your spirit. So you can react in a completely knee jerk reaction to something.
We don't have a person divided up in this fashion in our westernized set of thinking....but THEY did. We look at things like personality and cognitive abilities as a person's spirit....but that's not how they did it.
A Life is something that you build for yourself. It includes such things as friends and spouses, children, occupations and standing in your community. It's got very little to do with respiration. But it's related.
A person's blood was thought to belong to God....because all life was created by God. So touching something that didn't belong to you made you unclean.
A person's soul is inclusive of body, heart, and spirit.
A spirit is somewhat similar to what we refer to today as disposition or even attitudes.
A heart is where your mind and your will meet up and cause actions. Sometimes your spirit will cause actions but usually its because your Will will teach your spirit. So you can react in a completely knee jerk reaction to something.
We don't have a person divided up in this fashion in our westernized set of thinking....but THEY did. We look at things like personality and cognitive abilities as a person's spirit....but that's not how they did it.
A Life is something that you build for yourself. It includes such things as friends and spouses, children, occupations and standing in your community. It's got very little to do with respiration. But it's related.
A person's blood was thought to belong to God....because all life was created by God. So touching something that didn't belong to you made you unclean.