Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jking@apollo.hp.com (John King) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Holy Spirit an "it" Message-ID: Date: 22 Sep 89 02:19:18 GMT Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass. Lines: 24 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Micheal Seimons comments on the Greek at Mark6:7, and Eph 2:2: Thank you Mike for your detailed comments on the Greek. After reading your post, I went home to check the grammer books. I must conclude that you are correct. In my haste to make a point I was looking at the suffix for genative adjectives when I should have been looking at nouns. Of course the definate articles were not much help since in one case they could have been M or N, and in the other case M,F, & N. So, with some egg on my face, I must back off from my original thesis. I should add that it was mine & mine alone. I thank you for pointing it out. The important thing is not to 'win' a discussion, but rather to get to the truth. The good thing about the net is that, even though there is a lot of misinformation flying around, somebody generally ferrets out the truth. I still contend that the holy spirit is an 'it', and not a 'he', but, alas, I must conclude that this can neither be proved nor disproved from the Greek. Jack