From: David Coomler (davidco@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us)
Date: Thu Aug 17 1995 - 19:40:49 EDT
On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Paul Dixon - Ladd Hill Bible Church wrote:
KevLAnder@aol.com wrote:
>
> Anyway, Colwell argued that THEOS in J 1:1 has a greater probability of being
> translated "God" (definite), not "a god" (indefinite), since 87% of definite
> predicates preceding the verb in the GNT are anarthrous.
My understanding is that neither is really accurate, and that when
translating it into English it becomes descriptive--in other words, "god"
with a small g. The word was neither completely identical with God (big
G), nor simply an individual god ("a god"), but rather god in an
adjectival sense--or as some translate it, "divine." I think "the word
was god" or "the word was divine" are both more accurate than either of
the two extremes of making the word absolutely identical with God or a
separate god.
David
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