jory micah word study

ory Micah’s Word Study Fallacy on calling Holy Spirit “She” October 4, 2016 by SLIMJIM Some Jory Micah has posted this on her Social media (Twitter, Facebook): 14590018_10153750156091879_6453935964954370800_o Her theology is *tweeked.* There’s a word study fallacy being committed here. Both Hebrew and Greek is a language that have feminine and masculine forms (actually Greek also have neuter forms as well). That means some words lexically are of a particular gender. But that does not necessarily mean that what the noun is would exactly be that gender. For instance the Hebrew word for eagle, נָ֫שֶׁר, and the Greek word for eagle, ἀετός, are masculine in form. But that doesn’t mean that eagles are all male in gender. It just so happen that the word eagle as a noun is in it’s root masculine in form. One is deducing too much from the gender of the word here if one makes it that eagles are essentially male in its nature. Of course there are other reasons why we believe that there are female eagles. This is exactly what’s going on with Jory Micah’s word study. She’s not accounting for Scripture’s use of masculine pronouns with the word “Spirit.” I want to take this one step further. With that kind of bad reasoning I wonder how she would take it when the Greek noun for sin in the Greek is feminine ἁμαρτία and the noun for evil is the feminine κακία. Does that mean sin and evil is feminine? Is evil a “she?” Is it right to extrapolate from that all kinds of biases in the debate about gender roles and use this as an argument against feminism? Of course not. Again I don’t want to be sidetracked from the focus of this post that here she’s making a word study fallacy and that if we adopt her method it is self-refuting towards some of her own beliefs. She doesn’t know how to blush with the bad handling of the original language. Share this: RedditEmailFacebook18TwitterPress