In article , gpatton{at}bayou.com
says...
>
>Sarah Kanary wrote:
>

[snip]
>Very interesting!1 That meaning of the word "day" could make a
>difference with one's understanding of Luke 23:43 which reads: And he
>said to him, "Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in
>Paradise."

Do you mean to tell us that you finally accept the correct exegesis of this
verse, and accept the comma being where every manuscript that _has_ a comma has
it?

Will wonders never cease!


>I know that some like to pick and choose the meaning of a word.  If
>they want to believe that in one verse in scripture "day"
means "day"
>they read it as "day".

Please, don't _encourage_ them!

> But, if they don't like the word "day" in
>another verse of scripture they find a way to make it read like they
>want to read it.
>
>But, I kind of like a day in Genesis and Luke to be about 24 hours
>long. I kind of like a week being seven days rather than seven years.
>I know that I am a patient laid-back liberal, but I am somewhat
>conservative when it comes to time.

But you seem to have missed the point: in Hebrew, therefore in Genesis, 'day'
really can mean 'an age'. One cannot make the same argument in Greek, not, at
least, unless you can show that the author really was thinking of the Hebrew
word, not the Greek.

However, I am so glad to see you accepting an exegesis of Luk 23:43 that does
_not_ follow the JW rationalization!


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quidquid boni habet, tribuat illi a quo factus est.
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