Jehovah Witnesses & The Trinity
Farrell Till jftill@midwest.net
Sun, 03 Jan 1999 22:40:51 -0800 (00915453651, 2.2.32.19990104064051.00d9df54@midwest.net)
At 12:55 PM 1/3/99 -0500, Greg, Nancy, and James Todd wrote:
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>>>BLACKFOOT
>>>But what about "wisdom" being the female gender as
>>>mentioned above. Does that not prove that it couldn't
>>>have been referring to Jesus?
>>
>>>JAMES
>>>Even though the noun translated as "wisdom" is always
>>>in the feminine gender, the word is personified, that
>>>is, takes on the role of a person. This would allow
>>>for the person to be a male or female, which in this
>>>case it is personified to be a male.
>>>
>>>The word "love" at 1 John 4:8 is also in the feminine
>>>gender, but that doesn't make God female does it?
>>
>>BLACKFOOT
>>Yet, I'm not talking about genitives. I'm talking
>>about plain and simple gender words.
>
>NANCY
>The gender of words such as wisdom, love, freedom, justice, table, sky,
>moon, sun, book, house, wall, etc, etc, etc, has nothing to do with the sex
>of the object or concept. Obviously, wisdom, a table, the sky, a book, etc,
>do not have sex. The gender of these concepts/objects is strictly
>grammatical gender. Most Indo-European and Semitic languages have
>grammatical gender.
>
TILL
This is true in French too. A woman's purse is masculine, but a man's
necktie is feminine.
Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net