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Originally Posted by Walks_in_islam
You know me better than that. I check them all. The literal translation. Reference. Cross reference.
The place they are carefully separated are too numerous to count.
Equating the two or interchanging the two does not add up. It never has. God always has a place, Jesus has a place beside Him but that place beside God alway defers to God.
John 1 for example keeps getting grabbed like a life preserver but would it be intellectually more honest to interpret it within the context of the rest of the book of John? |
The Greek literally says the appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
It says what it says. What we make of it is subject to lots of things that go beyond the text.