One In The Greek

[Costeon]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

So what about hen/heis controversy?

Is it irrelevant?

I'm not really sure what I think about it right now. I haven't studied it enough.

Here are some verses that probably need to be considered:

John 17.11: And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one (hen), even as we are one ["one" here is not actually in the Greek but is implied from the context].

John 17:21-23: 21 that they may all be one (hen), just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one (hen) even as we are one (hen), 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one (hen), so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me."

Here when Jesus says he and the Father are one it does not seem that he is saying they are the same person, but are in the closest possible relationship. Jesus even describes him and the Father as "us." He prays that the believers would have the same kind of unity.

Here is an example where "hen" is used of two people who are working together: 1 Cor 3.8: He who plants and he who waters are one (hen), and each will receive his wages according to his labor.