Interesting thread Point, counterpoint, I remember myself participating in this silly ping-pong nonsense too. I don’t do that anymore, I just let my rather large friend (800 lbs and very sensitive about his weight) do all the work for me.
Using a snippet from another thread:
I’m reminded of their (witnesses) argument(s) with John 1:1. They go through all sorts of acrobatics with Greek grammar, God or “a god”, Theos, ho Theos etc. However, they have a much bigger problem then that in the very beginning of the sentence. It seems this Word fellow shares something rather significant with this God fellow. It seems they both were in attendance somewhere at the very same time, maybe they were watching a movie or went to a ball game together; no big deal lots of us do that with our friends. Oh wait, I see it wasn’t a ball game or a movie, it seems they arrived in a place called “the beginning”. They both existed in the beginning at the same time, not the little fellow first, not the big fellow first, but at the exact same time, in equality. Yes, that’s the eight hundred pound gorilla in the room, that Word fellow is just as old that God fellow!
The very dyslexic Freeman
(Who thanks his English professor who drilled him on sentence structure until his eyes bleed)