{"id":13949,"date":"2023-07-17T17:21:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13949"},"modified":"2023-07-17T17:21:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T17:21:09","slug":"church-from-two-different-greek-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13949\/church-from-two-different-greek-words\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Church&#8221; from Two Different Greek Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Good Morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Regarding your comment:\u00a0&#8220;The word &#8216;church&#8217; is used\u00a0in the New Testament books 114 times (KJV).\u00a0 It should not be there at all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I took my concordance out and counted.\u00a0 There are 114 uses of the word &#8220;church&#8221; in the King James Bible from the Greek word:\u00a0<em>ekklesia<\/em>.\u00a0 And once, &#8220;church&#8221; is used (in Acts 19:37), but\u00a0that comes from a different Greek word, which would make the count 115.\u00a0 It seems that the translators were compelled to translate both words incorrectly?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I remember you talking about this years ago and how important this is, because it trains a person to misunderstand what is actually being communicated in the Scriptures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">It is incredible that such a blatant mistranslation is never mentioned by anyone I have met in Christianity, and when I have mentioned it in conversations, I would get, for lack of a better way to describe it, a deer in headlights look, or just no interest at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Thanks For All The Hard Work,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Wendell<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>Hi Wendell.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>In Acts 19:37, the Greek word there means &#8220;temple-robbers&#8221;, and so, in that case, &#8220;church&#8221; is an acceptable translation, for a temple (or mosque,\u00a0etc.) is a church.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><span style=\"color: #0013a3\">Yes, Christian translators do seem compelled by their faith to mistranslate\u00a0ekklesia\u00a0as &#8220;church&#8221;, and it is astonishing how many people accept that translation without questioning why.\u00a0 But then, as in all things, if God does not open our eyes to His truth, we have no choice but to remain blind.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s keep praying that God will deliver His precious people from church religion, and make us all one in His Son!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, Good Morning. Regarding your comment:\u00a0&#8220;The word &#8216;church&#8217; is used\u00a0in the New Testament books 114 times (KJV).\u00a0 It should not be there at all.\u201d I took my concordance out and counted.\u00a0 There are 114 uses of the word &#8220;church&#8221; in the King James Bible from the Greek word:\u00a0ekklesia.\u00a0 And once, &#8220;church&#8221; is used (in Acts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}