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Q&A:Plagiarism: Difference between revisions
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Acts 17:28 states: | Acts 17:28 states: | ||
:''...for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’'' | :''...for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’''<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ac 17:28.</ref> | ||
This cannot be considered plagiarism for the following reasons: | This cannot be considered plagiarism for the following reasons: | ||
#Paul did not write the Book of Acts, Luke did. What we have here is Luke relating Paul's speech on Mars Hill. | #Paul did not write the Book of Acts, Luke did. What we have here is Luke relating Paul's speech on Mars Hill. | ||
#Paul clearly states that he is quoting someone else - a poet. So he is putting everyone on notice that these are not his words. | #Paul clearly states that he is quoting someone else - a poet. So he is putting everyone on notice that these are not his words. | ||
How anyone could construe this as plagiarism? Plalgiarism is defined as the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. Paul is not trying them to pass them off as his own ideas and clearly states that these are the words of a Greek poet. | |||
==Jesus' Sermon on the Mount on Moses== | ==Jesus' Sermon on the Mount on Moses== | ||