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Can We Really Know Who Is God?

Can We Really Know Who Is God?

Continued from Part 19 A debt to Philo God, according to Philo, is an incorporeal, indefinable, absolute Being without any knowable attributes and qualities.  God, being so removed from the world, cannot have direct relations with it. 12 Therefore, Philo introduces an intermediary existence (“words”) between God and the world.13  The “words” are identified with the angels in the Scriptures.  These powers are also conceived of as a single independent being called Logos (“Word”), a term which P
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
A Single Word Absence In John That Skews The Entire Meaning

A Single Word Absence In John That Skews The Entire Meaning

Continued from Part 23 The trinitarian argument that the second theos in John 1:1 does not require the article to be considered definite can only be motivated by theological considerations, whereas to translate the word theos as “a god” is consistent not only with John’s use of the Philonic Logos, but with the New Testament’s general explanation of Jesus’ relationship to God.   There is no reason to assume that the absence of a definite article is implied or understood.  The absence of the artic
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz