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Question #56 -
QUESTION:
What should I do where my Bible and my Greek Lexicon contradict?
ANSWER: Throw out the Lexicon.
EXPLANATION: Oftimes
a critic of God's Bible will point to a Lexicon or Greek grammar
book for authority in an effort to prove that a word has been
mistranslated in the Bible. This is rather foolhardy, and flies in
the face of their purported claim to accept the Bible
as their final authority in all matters of faith and practice.
It must be remembered that God never
claimed that He would provide us with a perfect lexicon or an
inerrant Greek grammar. He said that He would provide us with a
perfect Bible.
Thus, on the weight of our own acceptance of
the Bible as our "final authority in all matters of faith
and practice" we must all accept its
rendering of the Greek as more accurate and authoritative than the
opinion of the fallible human authors of our
Greek study guides.
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