gengwall

“He stated that it was unwise to base a doctrine ( or view of a passage) on a word that is used only once in the bible. He said that this is what egals do with “authentein” in 1 Tim 2.”

Excuse my filpancy but I find this quite amusing. First and foremost, the egal view of 1 Tim 2 does not at all “hinge” on the one word authentein. And although it occurs only once in the NT, it should be noted that there are other occurances in Greek literature which paint a pretty clear picture of the type of authority the word describes.

This is actually a straw man argument on the part of comps. They claim that the egal argument relies on this one word. Then, rather conveniently, they say that you can’t base an argument on a word that only occurs once, thereby, supposedly, dismissing the egal argument in one mighty rhetorical flourish. Of course, the intial claim is completely false, hence the straw man.

What is lost in this little slight of hand is that they have absolutely no evidence that authentein means what they say it means. A point you brilliantly made in your reply to your friend.