{"id":14828,"date":"2024-07-04T18:58:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T23:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=14828"},"modified":"2024-07-05T19:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T00:03:48","slug":"the-unifying-bond-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14828\/the-unifying-bond-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Unifying Bond of Peace&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hi Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thank you for sending out\u00a0the blog,\u00a0&#8220;The Unifying Bond of Peace&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0It\u00a0is very interesting and feels so right to me.\u00a0\u00a0It reminds me of what we know to be the Kingdom of God,\u00a0in that it is specifically the sum of peace,\u00a0joy and righteousness in the holy Ghost and not literally just principality where God is king (though He is!)\u00a0\u00a0I looked up what other translations have for these verses\u00a0in Ephesians 4:3,\u00a0and I see that most end verse 3 in a period and start verse 4 with &#8220;There is&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0In many versions, &#8220;There is&#8221; is in italics, which I believe means they took the liberty to insert it there when it was not in the Greek. Is that true?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thanks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michael<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Yes, Michael, italics in translations\u00a0always indicate that words\u00a0have\u00a0been added.\u00a0 To do so is necessary and acceptable in very many cases, simply because\u00a0of the difference in languages.\u00a0 Sometimes, however, we have discovered that italics are sometimes added by some translators in order to promote a doctrine in which they deeply believe.\u00a0 We have prayed for help from the Lord to avoid\u00a0making a mistake in that regard, and simply communicate what He was actually saying in the holy Scriptures.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Thank you for the question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/The-Unifying-Bond-of-Peace-PDF.pdf\">The Unifying Bond of Peace PDF<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1809377439321125053\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1809377439321125053<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor John, Thank you for sending out\u00a0the blog,\u00a0&#8220;The Unifying Bond of Peace&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0It\u00a0is very interesting and feels so right to me.\u00a0\u00a0It reminds me of what we know to be the Kingdom of God,\u00a0in that it is specifically the sum of peace,\u00a0joy and righteousness in the holy Ghost and not literally just principality where God is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14828"}],"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=14828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14831,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14828\/revisions\/14831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}