FresnoJoe (09-29-2015)
No it does not, aionion is used in the Septuagint to refer to the duration of God's dominion. From reading your posts in this thread it seems to me that you are influenced by authors and researchers who do Bible related studies and who do not believe that it is divinely inspired at all. They would tell us that everything that is written in the Bible depends completely on the mindset of the times of the authors, for instance.
FresnoJoe (09-29-2015)
Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Literal Greek :
apo chronos aionion
before times eternal
That is pretty much the same as saying that he promised that before time began (at least the time related to the creation that we are situated within). If he promised that after time began then it would be within "times eternal".
FresnoJoe (09-29-2015)
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
(Ephesians 4:17-18)
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
(Psalm 1)
FresnoJoe (09-29-2015)
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
(Ephesians 4:17-18)
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
(Psalm 1)
FresnoJoe (09-29-2015)
FresnoJoe (09-29-2015)
Kinda. Let everything be measured by the Scripture, even if it upsets some of the theology we have grown accustomed to.
St. Augustine, near the end of his career, wrote a book called Retractationes ("Reconsiderations"), in which he reviewed his theology from his younger years and offered some revisions or "second thoughts." I'm not at the end of my career, but I've been reexamining some doctrines I held in my earlier years. I believe that what is true will hold up to scrutiny.
FresnoJoe (09-29-2015)
I already addressed that in an earlier post. Isaiah 41:21ff does not set a limit, nor does it say it is limitless. That is not the point of Isaiah 41. God can tell what he is going to do; something the gods of the nations could not do. That is quite sufficient to satisfy that passage.
FresnoJoe (09-29-2015)
FresnoJoe (09-29-2015)
When God is the referent of aionion, then it can refer to something that is everlasting. But that meaning derives from God as the referent, not from the meaning of the word on its own. Even with God as referent, in which aionion takes the sense of "everlasting," it does not mean "timelessness." It is age or time without end.
Your conclusion in the latter half or your paragraph above fails. For one thing, I do not suppose that everything depends completely upon the mindset of the times of the author, nor do the authors/books I've read on the matter. They take the Scriptures as divinely inspired, as do I. But I do think authorial intent and context are important considerations, and it simply does not follow that taking those seriously indicates a lack of faith in the Bible as divinely inspired.
FresnoJoe (09-29-2015)