If You Only Heard Vowel Points Teaching – Would you not be Spiritually Impoverished?

Comment left on EBF's Note on our YouTube channel regarding a "Tittle":

"The English word "tittle" doesn't mean "horn". Is "tittle" a wrong translation?"

EBF response:

It surely doesn't mean vowel point. Anyone saying it means vowel points is making an assumption (a wrong assumption) without any Biblical justification for doing so.

You say it doesn't mean horn. What does it mean? How can we find out what it means? The only way is to look at the Greek word itself. And the Greek word translated as "tittle" is the feminine form of the word for horn. That is our only clue.

Yet some – who do not know what the word means but assume it means vowel points – have arrived at a conclusion by offering no evidence at all. Its unwise to take such a drastic position which results in adding to the Word of God – based on a verse that you really cannot show that it means what you think it means (vowel points).

And what progress in the gospel has this understanding produced? I haven't heard a single worthwhile thing. But ask the question what progress in the gospel did Mr. Camping's Bible study work produce even as he disregarded vowel points – and we can list quite a bit. And what progress in the gospel is EBF's Bible study producing as we also disregard vowel points in our studies? And again the answer is quite a bit. This should not be. If vowel points were truly inspired by God – that would mean they are part of the Scripture – and any denying of them and disregarding of them would be subtracting from the Word of God. And if it that were the case then Mr. Camping as well as EBF teachers ought to be going further and further astray from truth because we are taking away from the Word of God. Yet that's not the case at all. We've been learning many things from the Bible.

But again, what gospel truth is being gained by those following along with these things? Tell us the insights?

I think some people listening to these things are perhaps not noticing the impoverished nature of the teaching – because they also listen to EBF. They receive spiritual food from EBF and so don't feel the full impact of this kind of teaching as much as they would if it were the only teaching they were listening to. But what about the sheep we're called upon to feed? Are they going to be receiving nourishment from hearing about names of vowel points and vague references to music symbols and so on? Where's the spiritual meat in these things? It’s sorrowful that some have come such a long way only to be deceived by something so wooden and frankly dull and uninteresting it reminds me of sitting in seminary class listening to a professor putting forth a lecture instructing us how to understand the Bible in a natural minded way.