Humpty Dumpty

[Faber]

"When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean" (Humpty Dumpty in 'Through the Looking Glass' by Lewis Carroll).

Those who deny the Trinity often employ the same rational as Humpty Dumpty in their approach to defining the words of the Bible. Since the proper definitions refute their doctrine they resort to attacking the meanings of the biblical words as found in the lexicons.
What they offer is simply their opinion of what they think the words ought to mean in accordance with their beliefs.
"The Bible is inspired not the lexicons" is a claim so often made. What is ignored is that the words of the Bible are to be properly defined otherwise like Humpty Dumpty words can simply mean anything we want them to. Communication will inevitably break down.

[Justin108]

"When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean" (Humpty Dumpty in 'Through the Looking Glass' by Lewis Carroll).

Oh you mean something like this?

If a person (for example "Jason") said that they know every single thought of God then they are making a claim to be God.
It would not be a lie for me to assert that "Jason claimed to be God" if he indeed stated that he knew every single thought of God.

Thus it is not a lie for me to assert that the Lord Jesus claimed to be God when we are to believe His testimony alone concerning the things of God.

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[Faber]

If a cite dictionaries to back up my claim you wouldn't believe them anyway thus affirming what was pointed out in the OP.

Think about it.

-bye-

[marco]

If a cite dictionaries to back up my claim you wouldn't believe them anyway thus affirming what was pointed out in the OP.

You DO cite dictionaries and there's nothing wrong with the definitions which ARE definitions. No one is disagreeing with the definition but with your wrong understanding of what the words mean.

Some dictionaries that you quote from give more than a list of words with their definitions; they have paragraphs of opinion or explanation and it is from this that you sometimes quote, but you present these views as "definitions", presumably because they are given in a lexicon. Of course it is wrong to offer something as a definition when it was never intended to be, by the author.

So: definition - okay. Your opinion about a word - open to question.