Toto

The Bible verse that never was

ApostateAbe

In church I was told not to abuse my body because my body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. Now that I know it is more like part of a shared community center, it is time to hit the cocaine.

aa5874

There are other passages in the very same letter that clarifies 1 Cor. 6.19.

The Pauline writer merely suggested that one's body is like the Jewish Temple which was believed to contain the Spirit of God.

1 Corinthians 3:16 KJV1 Corinthians 3:17 KJV

andrewcriddle

I think this is at least oversimplified see the analysis in The rhetorical role of scripture in I Corinthians

Andrew Criddle

spin

I long ago used "Randolph Richards" as a pseudonym in an AIDS discussion forum. You know, randy dick. But this one's for real. Some parents can be so cruel in naming their children.

seyorni

So the problem is with the "simplified" translation?
English does have a singular -- thee, thou, thine -- we've just been neglecting it for the past couple centuries.

DCHindley

seyorni,

Yes, the KJV, still commonly used by fundamentalist Christians, uses the plural forms. For it's time, the KJV was a remarkably good translation and used correct high English.

Due to unfamiliarity with that high form of the language, modern English speakers prefer a translation that uses the "common" tongue.

The Jehovah Witnesses' New World Translation indicates plural forms by simply italicizing them.

Funny, Fundamentalists and Sects are able to deal with this issue better than "mainline" style translations.

DCH

PS: We're like modern Greek speakers, who actually read the NT in a modern Greek translation, rather than the original Koine Greek. Koine Greek is a somewhat simplified version of Attic Greek (dropped the dual, and standardized the declensions of many verbs etc). Modern Greek exists in two forms: A "literary" form for newspapers and books, which is itself a simplification of Koine, and everyday spoken Greek, simplified even more. I'm not sure, but the NT has probably been translated into literary Greek AND spoken Greek.

(NA26 Joh 1:18) Θεὸν οὐδεὶς ἑώρακεν πώποτε· μονογενὴς θεὸς ὁ ὢν εἰς τὸν κόλπον τοῦ πατρὸς ἐκεῖνος ἐξηγήσατο.

(Vamvas Modern Greek Bible 1850 NT) Joh 1:18 Οὐδεὶς εἶδέ ποτε τὸν Θεόν· ὁ μονογενὴς Υἱός, ὁ ὤν εἰς τὸν κόλπον τοῦ Πατρός, ἐκεῖνος ἐφανέρωσεν αὐτόν.

(Metaglottisis Modern Greek 3rd Edition 2004) Joh 1:18) Το Θεό ως τώρα κανείς δεν έχει δει ποτέ. Ο μονογενής Θεός?4 που είναι στην αγκαλιά μέσα του Πατέρα, εκείνος εξήγησε αυτόν.

Toto

The Samaritan discussion between Stephan and Jeffrey has been split off here