I stopped following this thread a while back, but I wanted to share something that I stumbled upon on wiki. I'm hoping this will clear up things about what 'atheist' means because in actual fact that term came from the New Testament itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ephesi...atheos.jpg
My first language is Spanish, therefore whenever I see Latin or some Greek words I have a pretty good idea of what it means. The word 'atheoi' is very close to the Spanish word for atheist which is 'ateo'.
'Atheoi' appears in Ephesians 2:12 and its meaning is '[those who are] without God'.
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
There you go. If only Christians knew Greek then this thread wouldn't be necessary =)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ephesi...atheos.jpg
My first language is Spanish, therefore whenever I see Latin or some Greek words I have a pretty good idea of what it means. The word 'atheoi' is very close to the Spanish word for atheist which is 'ateo'.
'Atheoi' appears in Ephesians 2:12 and its meaning is '[those who are] without God'.
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
There you go. If only Christians knew Greek then this thread wouldn't be necessary =)
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
