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  • Noun – Adjective Agreement

    Anonymous Christian
    Aug 27, 2014
    Theology
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    The verses below (uttered by our Blessed Saviour) are erroneously handled by many translators (non-literal translation is done).

    Firstly, our eternal hell camp wrongly translates these verses as follows (non-literal):

    “Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age (aioni) and in the age to come eternal (aionion) life.” (Luke 18:29 – 30)

    If they were to “say” that the Greek adjective (aionion) is eternal, then to be consistent, the noun appearing in this same verse (aioni) must also mean eternity!

    So, their ‘translation’ ought to read (consistently):

    “ I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this eternity, and in the eternity to come eternal life.” (Luke 18:29 – 30)

    See the “absurdity”?

    In Greek, the noun (aioni) and adjective (aionion) talk about the “same thing”, namely, “a period of time = age”.

    Thus the “correct & literal” translation of the verses would be:

    “Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come, age-during life.” (Luke 18:29 – 30)

    Lastly, to argue that the “coming age” is “eternal”, is “wrong”. Why? Consider the two points below:

    1. If Christ wanted to say that the coming age is ‘eternal’, the author would have inserted the true Greek word for eternity, “aidios” or its derivations as an adjective to mean it eternal. Alternately, the author could have used other Greek words such as the ones meaning “endless” or “deathless” (immortal) to describe the ‘eternal’ duration of the “coming age”. He didn’t & thus we are not to “add to the Word” and just take it “literally” as our Lord said.

    2. If the coming age (singular) is ‘eternal’ or an ‘eternal age’, then it would “contradict” another powerful verse in the Bible which “literally” states that there are “ages (aiosin; plural – more than 1) to come” implying that each of this age must be of ‘limited time’, especially the “coming age” (next age).

    Here’s that verse, “literally”:

    “in order that in the coming ages (aiosin) He might show the incomparable riches of His grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.” (Ephesians 2:7)

    Now you know why the ancient “Greek fathers” themselves such as Clement of Alexandria & Origen were all believers in the True Gospel (the real authorities in “Greek” back at that time!)

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Jonathan Ramachandran is founder at AnonymousChristian.org which serves as a Christian Blog discussing the Greater Hope of Biblical Christian in Christ Alone. He is also an IMO (International Math Coach) and a featuring Guitarist for many bands.

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