Jehovah Witnesses & The Trinity

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At 22:40 1/3/99, Farrell Till wrote:

>At 12:55 PM 1/3/99 -0500, Greg, Nancy, and James Todd wrote:

>><snip>

>>>>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.


Ray
The Spanish word for penis is feminine.

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