DEFINITE ARTICLE EPHESIANS 2:8 TRANSLATORS BIAS
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:26 am
For years the religious world has been looking at Ephesians 2:8 wrong. It has been used for years to uphold this idea of salvation by our own subjective faith alone. Well just within the last year and a half, I along with another gentleman have been discovering for ourselves the world of untranslated definite articles associated with the word "FAITH".
It is amazing to find this one in Ephesians 2:8, it is found in the Majority text (Textus Receptus), but is not one time ever translated into english "THE FAITH". I understand that a good bible student would understand the force of "...and that not of yourselves" within the context , but with this revealed to more people, this allows an understanding direct just within the verse.
I have yet to find out whether or not it is in the codex Sinaiticus, I know that Ephesians is found in that codex, but I have yet to find out if it renders the definite article.
For some you may wonder why this is important, it is important because it changes the whole perspective of this one verse which is a pillar of those who contend for "FAITH ALONE". The verse never taught this idea in the first place ,but now if one can see that the original majority forces this to be "OBJECTIVE" faith and not our own, then maybe they will see the truth, and that is that we are not saved by faith alone.
My question to you out there, is have you any knowledge in regards to what the reading of codex Sinaiticus is in this verse, Ephesians 2:8?
Or maybe you demand that Ephesians 2:8 is really talking about our own subjective faith and cannot come to the idea that it is objective, then state your case, because if people start catching on to this truth through out the whole N.T., things may change a little.
Hope to hear from you
It is amazing to find this one in Ephesians 2:8, it is found in the Majority text (Textus Receptus), but is not one time ever translated into english "THE FAITH". I understand that a good bible student would understand the force of "...and that not of yourselves" within the context , but with this revealed to more people, this allows an understanding direct just within the verse.
I have yet to find out whether or not it is in the codex Sinaiticus, I know that Ephesians is found in that codex, but I have yet to find out if it renders the definite article.
For some you may wonder why this is important, it is important because it changes the whole perspective of this one verse which is a pillar of those who contend for "FAITH ALONE". The verse never taught this idea in the first place ,but now if one can see that the original majority forces this to be "OBJECTIVE" faith and not our own, then maybe they will see the truth, and that is that we are not saved by faith alone.
My question to you out there, is have you any knowledge in regards to what the reading of codex Sinaiticus is in this verse, Ephesians 2:8?
Or maybe you demand that Ephesians 2:8 is really talking about our own subjective faith and cannot come to the idea that it is objective, then state your case, because if people start catching on to this truth through out the whole N.T., things may change a little.
Hope to hear from you