My idea is more precise. For example, the Greek Orthodox Church can claim to be charismatic - a Greek word - baptist - a Greek word, episcopalian - a Greek word - presbyterian - another Greek word.....
I almost forgot - and evangelical - another Greek word!
“My idea is more precise. For example, the Greek Orthodox Church can claim to be charismatic - a Greek word - baptist - a Greek word, episcopalian - a Greek word - presbyterian - another Greek word.....”
Indeed, these are Greek words, but the crowd around here will assure you that Greeks have no idea of what their language means. I mean for 1500 years we Greeks completely misunderstood our own language in the scriptures. To make matters worse, when 1500 years later a bunch of German and French speaking folks really did understand the Greek and let the world know what it meant, we Greeks, being really bad people, refused and failed to accept their enlightened Western European understanding of their Greek language and Faith. Can you imagine not acknowledging the superior holiness of those Westerners! But it gets worse, we STILL won’t believe what the Westerners tell us we must believe and we PERSIST in thinking we understand our own language best!
See, T, this is why our Triune God arranged for the NT to be written in Greek, so we could have every possible advantage. We needed the leg up more than the smarter Westerners.