Foster's Theological Reflections

Regarding Jn 1:1c, Jehovah's Witnesses and Trinitarians both say that the Logos was deity in a qualitative sense (i.e., he was "div...

I've saved the file to my computer, but you can see the information online here: https://zrhaydon1.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/koch-stag...

Interlocutor: "John 1:35 seems to create a conflict with Mark 1:12 in the Greek Gospels, since both place him at different places 3 da...

There have been questions raised about Genesis 2:19, and how it should be rendered: "And out of the ground the LORD God formed every ...

Just to keep readers up to date, these set of posts deal with Chrys C. Caragounis' analysis/critique of Stanley Porter's verbal aspe...

"The adjective 'perfect' [in 2 Tim. 3:17] is ARTIOS (only here in NT), and 'thoroughly furnished' is the perfect passiv...

Written 7/17/03 and edited 6/27/16; 7/24/16; 8/6/16. The Greek is οὐδὲ γὰρ ἀποθανεῖν ἔτι δύνανται, ἰσάγγελοι γάρ εἰσιν, καὶ υἱοί εἰσιν θεο...

When I say that the Bible contains redundancies, I use the term in the way that linguists do. Moises Silva offers the following input with r...

So far in this analysis of Caragounis' criticisms of Porter's aspect theory and biblical translations (verses that he has rendered f...

John 1:3-4 (Greek): πάντα δι' αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἕν. ὃ γέγονεν ἐν αὐτῷ ζωὴ ἦν, καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἦν τὸ φῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων...

Greek : καὶ γὰρ Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, τὸ ἀδιάκριτον ἡμῶν ζῆν, τοῦ πατρὸς ἡ γνώμη, ὡς καὶ οἱ ἐπίσκοποι, οἱ κατὰ τὰ πέρατα ὁρισθέντες, ἐν Ἰησοῦ Χρισ...

I base this part of the discussion on page 329 of Caragounis' The Development of Greek and the New Testament . Translations of Stanley P...

"I answer that, A thing may be a matter of rejoicing in two ways. First directly, when one rejoices in a thing as such: and thus the sa...

In part III of my review about the debate between Caragounis and Porter, I now focus on Revelation 1:8 and how one might translate the verse...

From time to time, I get requests for information dealing with Ignatius of Antioch. I'm providing a variant of a post submitted here bef...

I have already pointed out that Caragounis severely castigates Stanley Porter in The Development of Greek and the New Testament: Morphology,...

Revelation 1:1: Ἀποκάλυψις Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἣν ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ ὁ θεὸς δεῖξαι τοῖς δούλοις αὐτοῦ ἃ δεῖ γενέσθαι ἐν τάχει, καὶ ἐσήμανεν ἀποστείλας ...

This series of blog posts will revolve around a book written by Chrys Caragounis entitled The Development of Greek and the New Testament: Mo...

2 Chronicles 24:17: καὶ ἐγένετο μετὰ τὴν τελευτὴν ᾿Ιωδαὲ εἰσῆλθον οἱ ἄρχοντες ᾿Ιούδα καὶ προσεκύνησαν τὸν βασιλέα· τότε ἐπήκουσεν αὐτοῖς ὁ...

(1) Otto Kaiser (OTL) professes that the King (or Messiah) mentioned in Isa. 9:6 is EL GIBBOHR insofar as he is "the representative and...