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Sep 05 2009
Considering that John Piper has come down hard – and not just him – on the use of gender inclusive language, I thought we should make sure he was telling the truth about the ESV being free of such vileness. So, we briefly examine several verses compared between the KJV and the ESV.
Continue reading “The Gender Inclusive Language of the English Standard Version”
Sep 05 2009
I am a novice at bible translation, but even I know that a ‘literal translation’ is not exactly literal. I wonder if the ESV uses all the ‘O’s’ in the text? Or the ‘the’s’ as in ‘the God, the Christ’ when it is rarely translated in our English bibles.
Jul 05 2009
I know of a few Calvinists, Reformed they call themselves, who use and teach the English Standard Version like many use the KJV. This blogger tells us of an attack against the NIV, the TNIV and the NLT by Ligonier Ministries:
The whole point of this so-called talk was subtle and dishonest attacks against the NIV, TNIV and the NLT. It was suggested that these translations are just about money and they are a “war on the word of God”. In the end, this whole things leads to a pied-pipering to the English Standard Version. All I have to say is bye, bye Ligonier Ministries, RC Sproul, and Renewing Your Mind. My time is short and there’s better things to listen too that don’t waste my time and fill me with dishonest rhetoric.
Frankly, I like the NLT. It lacks the dry committee feel of the ESV, and of course, there are other problems with it (see here.) I like the style of it, and indeed, sometimes I like the NIV. (Of course, I generally like to study the originals). The ESV is purposely translated to appeal to the Reformed. Fine. But as the author above said, dishonest rhetoric is not needed at this time.
I am not saying give up your ESV’s. Keep them. Read them. Enjoy them. Just leave the onlyist arguments to the kind folks who defend the KJV.
Oct 27 2008
Zach Nielsen–shamelessly stealing Abraham Piper’s idea–is offering a free black genuine leather ESV Study Bible, chosen from those who sign up to subscribe to his blog.
Aug 22 2008
John Hobbins starts us off this week with an excellent post on the recent decision by the Vatican in pulling any prounaction of Yahweh in offical services, documents, etc… Not sure how I feel about the entire thing, of course being an Economist/Modalist/Oneness/Emanationist believer, my God is named Christ.
The blogger at Gay Christian Watch posts a delightful article on those who just cannot stand negativity. He quotes Derek Prince:
“The Bible gives us no liberty to tolerate the incursion of evil into the church.”
There is a young woman (Katy Perry) that is giving anquish to her parents, like so many children do these days. Remember them in your prayers.
Here is a pdf on why NOT to ask Jesus into you heart. Interesting, I must say. And Mike has a few thoughts on ‘Easy-Beliefism’. You all know that I don’t agree with him on most of his doctrine – how could I – but I have found him interesting and right, overall, many times.
Today a Awilum told me about some free downloads of flashcards and practice sheets designed to help students learn the Hebrew alphabet. Very helpful stuff.
Chris Arnzen of New York’s Iron Sharpens Iron radio program speaks with Pastor Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries. The topic is the influx Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism into the evangelical camp under the guise of Spiritual Formation through the growing influence of The Cult of Guru Richard Foster who is not an evangelical but a Quaker mystic. You can listen to and download the entire program here. HT: Watcher’s Lamp
GCM brings us news about the troubles in the COGIC. It isn’t just Rome, you know.
Jim West comments,
Such things make no sense, but they go on.
Last week the High Court of Justice issued a temporary restraining order halting construction work by a Jewish organization in a Franciscan monastery on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion adjacent to the Cenaculum, the Latin term for the room where the Last Supper was held. The court also issued an order preventing the Jewish organization – the Institute for the Study of the Family and Family Laws in Israel – from moving people in to live in the monastery, known as the Franciscan house, just outside the Dormition Church.
Dude… there’s no way the room venerated as the site of the Last Supper was actually the site of the Last Supper. The building is far too late!!!!!!!!! And the location of that event is utterly unknown anyway!
For an even-toned defense of the ESV and anticipation of Oxford’s edition with the Apocrypha, check out The spread of the English Standard Version at Quo Vadis, a blog by an Episcopalian priest in the Diocese of Tennessee, Jody Howard. And this is Iyov’s response to some of Jody’s, um, points.
By her father. A Saudi. For the high crime of converting to Christianity. Israel News reports
A young girl in Saudi Arabia was brutally executed by her Muslim father this week after he learned his daughter had converted to Christianity. Middle East business news website Zawya.com reported that the man, who is a prominent member of a “virtue committee,” first cut out his daughter’s tongue and held a one-sided religious debate with her. He then burned his daughter alive.
Nick helps us out with paganism, patristics, and the Scriptures.
Jul 18 2008
In this week’s edition we have our favorite, old Todd, some detractors and some detractors of those that defend him. Thought only papists (humor) could forgive sins? Guess what, not only can Charismatics forgive sins now, but they can send someone to heaven! What a week! Enjoy.
I have been accused of being unloving in my take on Todd Bentley, especially by Steve ‘The Shack’ Hickey, and I had thought about writing a post concerning the ugly side of love (I still might), but until then, this is a very good one.
A few weeks ago, I mentioned something about Katy Perry/Katy Hudson. Here is an excellent post about her. This is also a social commentary on what happens when talented people fail to give it all to God. Keep in mind, that this girl i appealing to the ‘tween girls (10-13) age group.
A Baptist? I know, I know, but they do have a certain realism about them when it comes to these faith healers. Thanks to this blog for pointing to this article about a real view of Todd Bentley. Here is another real testimony from someone who was actually there. Here is a fellow Canadian on Todd’s recent bout with the boot because of ABC New’s (Nightline) expose (‘aboot him’ – sounds better aloud). Here is a post that you might mind interesting, well those who are concerned with debunking Todd. And this one is a real testimony about the healing power of Todd. It is a major disappointment for me to see Peter Kirk defending Todd, but Scott handles it pretty well.
Sorry, no video about Todd this week, but here is one making the rounds from the charismatics. Suddenly, they have the authority to forgive sins. I thought Protestants protested the Roman position that the priests could forgive sins, and yet this woman suddenly can? And then put him in paradise?
Of the ways of finding out if someone is in fact a true man of God is to remain grounded in the scriptures.
I posted this earlier in the week, but incase you missed it, here it is again. I guess maybe we can hope for the same thing in Sri Lanka as is happening in Japan? Buddhism is denominational, and many varied. One commenter on the post spoke about ‘aggressive evangelism’. The issue, of course, is that Christ commanded us to go into all the world. Tradition holds that Thomas made it to India, so really, they should have been prepared for this. No, it is not the Buddhist way to evanglize, but then again, Christians are concerned about such things as sin and hell, and we have a duty to to the world to tell them of the Christ.
There is a man in Britain! Maybe we can get this guy to stand against Todd Bentley the way he stood against Gene Robinson’s, our latest export.
Here is a small and out of date update to the latest archeological find in Jordan that many claim to be a church from the 1st century AD.
In continuing with ‘Gabriel’s Vision’, I ran across this article from an Israeli based news site.
According to Knohl, the tablet proves that “what happens in the New Testament was adopted by Jesus and his followers based on an earlier messiah story.”
But Gershon Nirel, a prominent Israeli historian and Jewish believer in Jesus, has a different take. He says the tablet is further evidence that Jesus was the kind of messiah Israel was waiting for, even if the rabbis now teach that Jesus failed to meet the biblical messianic criteria.
“Judaism is coming closer to the idea of redemption through the cleansing blood of Messiah, an idea that had been abandoned throughout the last centuries,” said Nirel.
Israeli theologian and fellow Messianic Jew Tsvi Sadan added that even if Knohl’s conclusions rub some believers in Jesus the wrong way, they still represent a step in the right direction.
“One can agree or disagree with Knohl’s conclusion, but the persistence of one of the leading Old Testament scholars in Israel today to prove that the death of the Messiah for Israel’s sake is not a Christian innovation is commendable in light of the tenuous relationship between the Jewish people and Jesus,” explained Sadan.
An Islamic journalist calls good Muslims to dismiss the honor killings so often in Muslim society (and spilling over to our society), seemingly calling it a form of domestic abuse.
This blogger is reporting that the ESV will soon be published with the Deuterocanon, or as you Protestants call it, the Apocrypha. I can hardly wait. (Note to wife, put the date on the calender)
Here is a neat litte video about Chinese Jews (seriously)
Read more here.
Here an article about Obama’s refusal to say that Christianity is the only way, but in the end, why does the religious views of a person who is running for office matter so much? I mean, look at the history of the Presidents thus far? How many actually governed the country by their religious views, professed or otherwise?
What Would Jesus Do If Invited to a Gay Wedding? « Suddenly Christian. I realize that this is a question that has to be asked, occasionally, by some, but the easy answer is really, could you wish them well in their sin?
I posted this yesterday, but it seems tha Archbishop of Canterbury, the titular head of the Church of England, is claiming that Christian doctrine is offensive to Muslims? So?
Dr. Jim West has an excellent flowchart on this post and indeed, I agree.
I have asked many time if we really need another bible translation, but this one takes it a bit further. Remember those books you would get where the story has your name in it…No I am not kidding. Look here. Here is a post on some denominational translation choices.
John Locke (No, not the guy on Lost) on Romans.
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