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1 | NIV bible | Bible general Archive 2 | Taleb | 110501 | ||
Thanks, Hank. I read a neat book once on this topic. Before I believed the Gospel of Jesus Christ, I spent some time on skid row. In order to obtain a free bed and bowl of soup, I HAD to attend the chapel meeting. Too often I heard what sounded like gibberish, such as, “For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.” (Romans 7:19-21) Needless to say, I had absolutely no idea what they were trying to say. Had they used something like the NIV, well I wouldn’t have gone away with only a bed, supper and slip for breakfast. I would have become a believer a year earlier. “When I want to do good, I don’t. And when I try not to do wrong, I do it anyway. But if I am doing what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing it; the sin within me is doing it. It seems to be a fact of life that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. ” I would have jumped up and shouted, “I know exactly what you are saying. I have the same problem. How do I get rid of this sin that keeps me from doing what I know is right?” Blessings, Taleb |
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2 | NIV bible | Bible general Archive 2 | Hank | 110508 | ||
Taleb, I think your example from real life (in this case, your own life experience) is powerful evidence that today's heralds of God's truth need to take heed that they present that truth in the vernacular of the man in skid row, the soccer mom, the clerk at the check-out counter -- not just to the learned, the scholarly, the elite. I think preachers and teachers of the Word who insist on using a "literary" translation exclusively, be it the King James or another, are exhibiting a foolish consistency which Emerson called the hobgoblin of small minds. --Hank | ||||||