{"id":6091,"date":"2015-07-18T01:06:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T01:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2015-07-18T01:06:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T01:06:27","slug":"accuser-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/6091\/accuser-4\/","title":{"rendered":"“Accuser”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey John,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I really enjoyed the meetings this weekend.\u00a0 The songs you sang, what sweet feelings. The tract on Stir Up The Gift Of God<\/span> <\/a>was wonderful too.\u00a0 I love the part in there where you said that’s the answer for everything.\u00a0 I had been reading Matthew\u200b and I\u200b am glad we are beginning to read \u200bthrough \u200byour translation.\u00a0 I had a question on 4:1, 5, 8, & 11.\u00a0 There, you used the word “Accuser” but in verse 10 you used “Satan”, and I was wondering why.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jr<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

============<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hi Jr.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I spent a lot of time \u200bon this, and the\u00a0decision was not easy. \u00a0 Thanks for asking about it. \u200b \u00a0I will give you a brief answer.\u00a0 I hope it will do.\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Wherever you see the word “Accuser”, the Greek word <\/span><\/span>diabolos<\/span><\/span><\/strong> is in the original text. \u00a0 Wherever you see the word “Satan” in my translation, a different Greek word is in the text, the actual name, “Satan”.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The usual translation of diabolos<\/strong> is “Devil”, but I decided not to go with that because the word “Devil” is so full of Christian mythological baggage that “Devil” doesn’t help the Reader understand the evil creature that is being referred to.\u00a0 Satan’s ancient role in heaven, and now on earth, is “the Accuser of the brethren”.\u00a0 So, instead of “Devil”, I translated diabolos<\/strong> as “Accuser”.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey John, I really enjoyed the meetings this weekend.\u00a0 The songs you sang, what sweet feelings. The tract on Stir Up The Gift Of God was wonderful too.\u00a0 I love the part in there where you said that’s the answer for everything.\u00a0 I had been reading Matthew\u200b and I\u200b am glad we are beginning to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091"}],"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=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}