Danoh , would you even go as far as to accept the english language had no word for the translators to use to adequately describe the Greek word "pisteuo"? The Greek have pistis for the noun for Faith . The Greek have pisteuo for the corresponding verb . The English has no verb form for Faith .
Can you recognize this one fact , that they had a word that we can't translate ?
We differ on that much.
I don't study a thing out from a supposed meaning in some dictionary somewhere.
Admittedly, part of my reason is that I am well read; which means I have had a very, very wide exposure in actual, repeated practice, to where words actually get their meanings from - from how they are found being used by whom, in relation to what, in light of what, to whom, and so on.
The result of all that being that I long ago learned to study a thing out in Scripture also, not through one word or another isolated from its whole - rather, to study a thing out within the whole that is the particular doctrine it is actually based on, and merely a part of.
That...is my dictionary.
Not Vine, not Greene, or whomever, rather, the Scripture's own, ever built-in dictionary, through how it too, ever makes use of all the above.
This is so reliable - this built in concordant aspect of the Word of Truth that even if a passage had been translated "Therefore being justified by tomato" - that's right, I said "tomato" - nevertheless, that word "Therefore" helps clue me in, as to where else in the Scripture itself I might turn to for that "FORM of sound words" that had actually been intended.
Look - either the Scripture is more than enough on its own, or it is not.
I tend to believe the following assertion...
2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
The result, whenever I do "a word study"?
Jeremiah 15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
And you know what, many of us MADs are like that - able at the drop of a hat to just quote from all sorts of parts of the Scripture, stored up in the mentality of our soul, simply by reason of use, by reason of actual time in that actual Book, itself.
Something our many opposers never notice, even as they forever remain stuck in their ever parroted conclusion that all we care about is Paul.
How is it then that many of us are ever so very familiar with so much of the Scripture outside of Romans thru Philemon?
You keep your Vine's - until you are fully persuaded in your own mind otherwise, Rom. 14:5.
That is where you presently are.
In memory of that o so ever glorious Cross in each our stead - that is...Romans 5: 6-8.
