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Spirit or Ghost?

Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by robycop3, May 27, 2005.

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Originally posted by Preacher's Boy:
kjv was written a very long time age....and language chanhes over tine...take for example the word fear commonly used int kjv..we are to fear God. When written he word to hold in awe...ove the centuriens in has come to mean to be afraid of...we're not suppsed to be afraid of God, we're supposed to hold him in awe.

Ghost is the same kind of situation...ghost now means exclusively the restless image of an deceased person. That meaning is very old and included kjv time of writng. Howerver, the use of ghost and spirt as synomyms is now larely lost.

WE have to careful to not use emerging langage differences to spilit hairs in a text hundreds of years old ...obviously in kjv languare to two words are used to describe the same thing, which in modern english is caller almosy exclusively spiret
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VERRRY Correct!

#61 robycop3, Jul 12, 2005

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