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Originally Posted by fellside  Okay, so this guy has gotten more aggressive than I'm used to in discussions. He's called me a hypocrite, a viper, foolish, a blasphemer.
His claim is built around that Old Testament Jews didn't believe in eternal torment, and they would have read the NT differently that the manipulated Christian church does. He says that we don't understand the meaning of the word αιωνιον (aionios). In all these verses that I show eternal suffering, he says the word is not eternal but "ages" or "through the ages" or something. He also claims that most of the early church was annihilationists and universalists. But that the Catholic Church changed our interpretation of greek words to fit their "evil" doctrine.
Maybe I should just stop with him if he's going to be like this. But I really don't have much of an argument with him since I have no knowledge of church history. | Ask him where he got his degree in Koine Greek or who he studied under.
Chances are, he read a book, and that book told him that the word meant something different. Ask him if he's performed a comprehensive word study on the greek word and what results he's turn up in what contexts, particularly in Scripture and early church writings.
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