Mark

Kristen,

“This is why I don’t focus my main arguments on the meaning of Greek words.”

I appreciate your stance on Biblical authority- i really do. However, the problem with your position by rejecting the meaning of biblical words, is that you are giving your ‘own’ meanings to those biblical words.
To ‘really’ understand the passages we must understand the Biblical words, so that we interpret the passage correctly.

I agree that the ‘whole’ meaning of a passage is not based on the words alone. Thus, why i disagree fundamentally with some interpretations that focus on ‘universal’ language as the focal point. All relevant data needs to be understood in a passage, aswell as what the ‘words mean’ in a normal context.