Religious Cults & False Prophets~ Discussions and DebatesFEW WERE SAVED BY WATERHisway "and" is a co-ordinating conjunction, which joins words together for a specific reason.
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kai,
and
I. It serves as a copulative
1. it connects single words or terms:
a. universally, Matthew 16:1
b. it connects numerals; Luke 13:4,11
c. it joins to partitive words the general notion; Acts 5:29
2. It connects clauses and sentences
a. universally, Matthew 3:12
b. In accordance with the simplicity of the ancient popular speech, and especially of the Hebrew tongue, it links statement to statement, the logical relations of which the more cultivated language expresses either by more exact particles, or by the use of the participial or the relative construction
c. it joins affirmative to negative sentences, Luke 3:14
d. it annexes what follows from something said before and so: Matthew 5:15
e. with a certain rhetorical emphasis, it annexes something apparently at variance with what has been previously said and yet
f. it begins an apodosis (the main clause of a conditional sentence), which is thus connected with the protasis (premise of a syllogism), also
g. as in classical Greek, it begins a question thrown out with a certain impassioned abruptness and containing an urgent rejoinder to another's speech
h. it introduces parentheses Romans 1:13
3. It annexes epexegetically both words and sentences so that it is equivalent to and indeed, namely
4. it connects whole narratives and expositions, and thus forms a transition to new matters: Matthew 4:23
5. kai ... kai, a repetition which indicates that of two things one takes place no less than the other: Matthew 10:28
6. te ... kai, see te, 2
II. It marks something added to what has already been said, or that of which something already said holds good
1. used simply,
a. also, likewise: Matthew 5:39 f
b. equivalent to even Matthew 5:46 f
c. before a comparative it augments the gradation, even, still Matthew 11:9
d. with a participle equivalent to although
2. joined with pronouns and particles, also
a. with comparative adverbs: Acts 11:11
b. added to words designating the cause, it marks something which follows of necessity from what has been previously said: Luke 1:35
c. after the interrogative ti, besides, moreover,
d. alla kai, but also: Luke 24:22
e. de kai, and de ... kai, but also, and also: Matthew 3:10
(from Thayer's Greek Lexicon, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 2000 by Biblesoft)
To limit the use of "and" is you have is to limit understanding God's revealed through the filter of an agenda that further limits God's truth to what you choose to believe.
You have also choosen to decide that God's name is Jesus inspite of the fact the NT does not demonstrate that God has a name other than I AM or Yehova. NT:3686
onoma, onomatos, to
name by which a person or a thing is called, and distinguished from others
1. universally: used of proper names, Mark 3:16
2. used for everything which the name covers, everything the thought or feeling of which is roused in the mind by mentioning, hearing, remembering, the name, Matthew 10:41
a. by the command and authority of Christ:
b. in the use of the name of Christ Mark 9:38
c. through the power of Christ's name, Mark 16:17
d. in acknowledging, embracing, professing, the name of Christ: Acts 4:12
e. relying or resting on the name of Christ, rooted (so to speak) in his name, i. e. mindful of Christ: Colossians 3:17
f. for the name of Christ 1 Peter 4:14
3. persons reckoned up by name: Acts 1:15
4. the cause or reason named: 1 Peter 4:16
(from Thayer's Greek Lexicon, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 2000 by Biblesoft)
The "name" of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit collectively is Yehova and indicates to those with a desire to understand Biblical truth that Yehova is ONE GOD composed of 3. Revelation 3:12-13
12'He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name. 13'He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.' NAS
Revelation 19:11-12
11 And I saw heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and He who sat upon it is called Faithful and True; and in righteousness He judges and wages war. 12 And His eyes are a flame of fire, and upon His head are many diadems; and He has a name written upon Him which no one knows except Himself. NAS
It is a bit arrogant for anyone to believe that can attach a single name to God that is not revealed by God in His word. It is also a bit arrogant to decide that God or Jesus has revealed His new name to you when John writes that no one but Jesus knows His new name.
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