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I'll give you a perfect example of what I'm talking about. A couple of years ago I was discussing the Gospel of John with a student from Dallas Theological Seminary. He insisted the Bible teaches that God is not anthropomorphic, metaphysically, because John 4:24 demands such an interpretation. I pummeled him with scholarship indicating how anthropomorphism was the norm for the Ancient Jewish understanding of God, and how it passed over to the early Christians. He went further to say that the "rules of Greek grammar" insisted on his interpretation, and he said this was something he learned from his Greek professor at DTS. Now this is something you could only learn at a "Bible college."
I emailed Evangelical Greek authority, Carlton Winbery about this and he pretty much said this was nonsense. The question for God's metaphysics is one for a theologian, and not something that can be conclusively determined through "rules of Greek grammar."
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