The voluntary tech guy. Like Batman – but fighting downtime rather than crime.
We left off the last section saying we’d look next at how to protect against heresies and controversy. Spoiler alert! I am about to argue that the single most important thing a true Christian can do here is know how to handle scripture correctly. This is another enormous topic – so as in all the […]
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In the previous part of this series we looked at three major translation theories – and looked at the complexities of translating even a simple word such as “flesh”. A few times I’ve found myself in a discussion around how ‘Pauline’ missionaries (like New Tribes Mission) handle translating words into very rare languages (like those […]
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At the very start of this series I said we’d answer three questions: What actually is the Bible itself (the “canon of scripture”)? Where does it come from? How is it in English? What is a Bible translation (what we have in English today)? Does our choice of Bible translation matter? Is there one “perfect” Bible translation […]
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Last time we left off with an unanswered question: given scripture is written or spoken by prophets, apostles, scribes, and “apostolically[sic] approved” people – then in what way is scripture divinely inspired? Does this not leave us with yet another book written by the hands of men? Question:Is the Bible simply dictated by God? Some […]
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A couple of years ago I ran a 2-part series for our church’s Wednesday evening bible study titled “What actually is the Bible?”. The goal was to answer three essential questions: What actually is the Bible itself (the “canon of scripture”)? Where does it come from? How is it in English? What is a Bible […]
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