From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 18 2002 - 07:28:14 EDT
At 12:09 PM +0100 4/18/02, David Thiele wrote:
>I recently received a posting on an another forum
>which is dedicated to more theological discussion.
>The issue at hand was the nature of justification. I
>am raising this here, not to import theology to this
>forum, but to get clarification of an argument based
>on the meaning of the Greek word LOGIZOMAI.
>
>The post I received contained an extract from the Blue
>Letter Bible (whatever that may be) which concluded
>with the following statement: "This word deals with
>reality. If I 'LOGIZOMAI' or reckon that my bank book
>has $25 in it, it has $25 in it. Otherwise I am
>deceiving myself. This word refers to facts not
>suppositions."
>
>Does this statement accurately reflect the meaning of
>LOGIZOMAI. It certainly does not seem to agree with
>the what I have always understood about the word.
The argument is, I think, specious. Look up LOGIZOMAI in LSJ, in BDAG, in
L&N and you will find a range of senses and texts illustrating the diverse
senses, including Paul's 1 Cor 13:10 where he even analogizes human
understanding and reasoning before the ESCATON as hWS NHPIOS LOGIZESQAI.
Moreover, I'm not much at arithmetic and over the years I have found more
than once that my LOGISMOS that I had $25 or whatever in the bank has
turned out to be sadly mistaken.
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Carl W. Conrad
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