There is no choice to be made. The Greek isn't offering a separate and different meaning. It's simply giving the true meaning. It's then your choice which English words to use to convey the proper meaning.The reason God used the Greek is because it is a much more precise language than the English.
It seems to me however that since you can't refute the Greek you are simply refusing to acknowledge it.
I am sorry. I strongly diagree.
One language is no different than another language. God never said he regards one language better than another. He was able to translate language so that all could hear each other in their own tongues just fine in Acts chapter 2.
There are many problems in thinking the Greek is superior. One, you have a... "one up" on somebody and you appear to be smarter than somebody else (When in reality you have no idea what you are really talking about because you did not actually grow up writing, reading, and speaking the same actual Biblical Greek that Paul and the others did). For there is a huge difference in studying a language many years later from many different sources that have many different opinions on what words mean, and actually knowing what it truly means by first hand experience in speaking that language. For example: Imagine the English language died out and most all books and internet sources on how to speak it were gone. Now, imagine a person discovering a book thousands of years into our future on how to speak English. Do you really expect that person to be able to speak English like you and me? No. Because there are things in that book that may not be covered. Also, languages change with time, too. We see this in our own language. Early Moden English (1600's English) is not the same as Late Modern English (Today's English).
Okay, imagine you are in a class room and you are telling somebody about the Bible for the first time and you start speaking, and writing to them in Greek about it. They are going to be 100% clueless and they are going to trust in.....YOU and not what the Bible actually says VERSUS ....them plainly trusting in their own language so as to understand the Bible to verify the truth for themselves simply and easily. Paul says we are to test all things and hold on to that which is good (1 Thessalonians 5:21). How is one going to do that if you make it virtually impossible for the poor and simple fishermen or common man to study the Scriptures and test things for themselves? If they are really required to study the Greek, would not God's Word say something about that? Did Jesus say His burden was light or that it was easy? Sure sounds like you are making it harder for people. For if you if you speak Greek to people, uou just pulled away any hope they had in knowing the Scriptures quickly and easily for themsleves. For you could be saying one thing in Greek, and they could be (like me) saying something else in the English. But the thing is, they have more of an assurance that their interpretation is correct because they actually KNOW the language that they speak. They have intimately experienced it with other people. There is no room to pass a quick false interpretation upon someone without them knowing it because they really do not speak and write Greek. But if the scholar has a bunch a fancy degrees and has the name Doctor in front of his name, all of a sudden he is like a code key to unlocking the mysteries of the Bible. No way. God's Word is understood by the Spirit and not by studying another language that you do not know and that has most likely changed over the years (And is in constant disagreement by scholars). But go ahead. Keep pretending the Greek is a better way to communicate the Bible to people. Simple people will scratch their heads and just point to what the Bible really says in their own language simply while you claim to be more smarter than them.
I mean, it reminds of when the priests in the Catholic church used to speak the Scriptures in Latin to their congregation. They were absolutely clueless. They had no actual understanding what was being said. Oh, but those priests sure sounded smart, though.
Paul says he would rather speak five words with the understanding than five thousand words without the understanding. When you speak or write Biblical Greek to people (Which is a dead language that nobody has had experiencing growing up speaking anymore), you are speaking confusion to them. It's like the Tower of Babel. Everyone spoke but they had no way of truly understanding each other. It's the same when you speak Greek to people. It's well.... "Greek to them." They have no clue. So you become their god of interpreting the Bible (If that is what you desire).
So no. I am strongly against what you said here. Big time. It is wrong to have a... "one up" on someone making them think you know God's Word better than them because you know a language that you never truly grew up talking or writing for yourself first hand amongst that actual culture.
