thou/ye - thee/you

From a message by a Curious Questioner--
>CQ> Subject: HOWCOME?

>CQ> Yo, Richard, why do use the old second-person familiar pronouns? They've been obsolete for a few hundred years now.

Well... Perhaps the absence of any kind of second-person pronoun in that question was a typo? And (grin :) Y'all ought to correct yer own grammer before trying to correct my gooder english, don't ya know. (There were no second-person pronouns of any kind at all in thy message! "HOWCOME?" :)

What some call obsolete, is used by more and more people throughout the world every day. A certain flock of people on a certain BBS [Bulletin Board System] in this area were being critical of the Bible and vainly claiming that they couldn't understand it, because of the thee's and thou's; and every one of those "birds" logged onto that BBS without any difficulty at all, by answering a question which said: "By what number art THOU known?" (And that was NOT a Christian BBS by any stretch of the imagination.)

The PURE english of the Holy Bible (Authorized Version) is much EASIER to understand than everyday so-called American english which makes NO DISTINCTION in the second-person pronoun "you" as to whether it is singular or plural.

In the Bible, ALL the singular 2nd-person pronouns begin with "TH"
In the Bible, ALL the plural 2nd-person pronouns begin with "Y".

Using a Y-second-person pronoun, was how the serpent deceived Eve! The command in Genesis 2:17 was spoken to Adam ALONE (Eve was not yet created), and said in part, "thou shalt not eat of it." The serpent spoke directly to Eve, but said, "Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?"

And from that point on, Eve was deceived into thinking that the command in Genesis 2:17 was plural instead of singular, and she answered the serpent by saying, "God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it." (Ye instead of thou.)

When the Lord showed up later, he did NOT condemn the woman for eating of the fruit, but condemned the man for two things:

"And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life." (Gen.3:17)

The Lord used the exact same six words in Gen.3:17 as he had used in Gen.2:17 when he gave that command to the man ALONE. Eve ate first, but it was NOT her eating that caused sin to enter into the world, but rather, Adam did NOT obey the command to him, and sin entered:

"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:" (Rom.5:12)

Believe on THE Lord Jesus Christ and THOU shalt be saved, and thy house; For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Grace be unto y'all in the love of the truth. Amen. --Richard