[mizpeh]

Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

Of course it can ... and it happens all the time .... with words w/ multiple meanings ... i.e. "jam", "set", etc.

but the writers did not express this separation contextually .... as the word does not the multiple distinct meanings some try to force into it.

Trying to skirt around this issue .... really hurts any intellectual honesty in the broader scope of a soteriological debate.

Dan, attempting to investigate all aspects of what is meant by aphesis and why the KJV translators chose to use remission and forgiveness in different places is not being "intellecturally dishonest".

Have you proved there is no contextual distinction found in the use of these words? I don't see much difference but I haven't truly examined closely why the words, remission and forgiveness, are used in different places. Are the really interchangable?

From my understanding they are interchangable, but I protest your use of the accusation of dishonesty against those who might consider that there may be a difference. I have a feeling the Biblical definition of divine forgiveness and our common definition of forgiveness are very different. As humans we cannot remove sin. God can.

Prov 20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.