...faith of the authors? Somebody called TeeM mentioned in their answer to one of my questions that Vine's teaches the trinity doctrine re. John 1;1. Therefore, since Jehovah's Witnesses do not agree with Vine's on this, why do they then use Vines when talking about 1 Cor 11:10 and the woman needing a 'sign of authority' or refer to Young etc? Should we not be looking at the original Koine Greek ourselves and comparing scripture on scripture to gather the meaning of words, using our own concordance?
Words undergo change over time, e.g. 'gay' 100 years ago would not have meant 'homosexual' as it does now. This is due to semantic narrowing and broadening. When the clergy from protestantism and catholicism first translated the bible into English, Koine was not in use in Greece so we had no native speakers and no dictionary (Samuel Johnson produced the first ever dictionary in 1755 and it was only an English language one). Hence when bible translation work was done (KJV 1611 and before that via Alfred the Great in the Old English language) the clergy had no native speakers and no dictionaries. To gather the meanings of ancient words all you can really do is compare context of where words appear in texts of the same period.
All the above were authored by clergy who had already been indoctrinated with their own beliefs e.g. trinity, headcoverings, heaven, hell etc. Should they be avoided or not?
Words undergo change over time, e.g. 'gay' 100 years ago would not have meant 'homosexual' as it does now. This is due to semantic narrowing and broadening. When the clergy from protestantism and catholicism first translated the bible into English, Koine was not in use in Greece so we had no native speakers and no dictionary (Samuel Johnson produced the first ever dictionary in 1755 and it was only an English language one). Hence when bible translation work was done (KJV 1611 and before that via Alfred the Great in the Old English language) the clergy had no native speakers and no dictionaries. To gather the meanings of ancient words all you can really do is compare context of where words appear in texts of the same period.
All the above were authored by clergy who had already been indoctrinated with their own beliefs e.g. trinity, headcoverings, heaven, hell etc. Should they be avoided or not?