True Exegesis

A closer look at John 1:1 and the application of Colwell's rule. ...και θεος ην ο λογος - John 1:1 "...and the Word was ___" …God, divine, or a god? Colwell's rule is used to insist the translation should be the definite "God". In his 1933 article entitled A definite rule for the use of the article in the Greek New Testament  he proposes this rule: " A definite predicate nominative has the article when it follows the verb, it does not have the article when it precedes the verb ".  Let's first define what these terms mean:  The predicate is the part of a sentence which describes or modifies the subject . For example John 1:5 begins "And the light shines in the darkness" - the light is the subject of the sentence, and shines in the darkness is the predicate. The function of the predicate therefore is to tell us something about the subject   and almost always contains a verb plus anything following that verb.  The subject + predicate i...

 Almost every Trinitarian you meet will present you John 10:30 to provide scriptural evidence for the Trinity Concept. In the Trinitarian view, It's understood as "One"(ἕν) in Essence along with Agreement and Unity. However, that isn't the case at all when it comes to as one in essence or being. It is a non-sequitur view that is presupposed/asserted into the text. Although Trinitarians would argue by showing "context" such as John 10:33, which says "The Jews answered him, "It is not for a good work that we stone you but for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God.". First, let's note that the Jews denied that they were seeking to stone him because of his good work. Does this make their denial true? Hardly, they had earlier denied that they were even seeking to kill Jesus (John 7:19,20). To give credence to this idea would in fact be calling Jesus a liar as Jesus pointed out the real reasons why they wished to kill him. Their...