Bible Question (short): When did God's inspiration stop? |
Question (full): It seems that I am being misrepresented here as trying to throw out all scholarly work throughout the centuries, and all of the wonderful things that have been discovered through knowledge of ancient languages and cultures. This is deffinately not the case. I think that this information can be very helpful for mature Christians to glean further insight into many Biblical passages. My point is quite simply that they are not necessary. In other words, they are like the dessert in the meal, they may taste sweet, but are not essential nutrients. I think that really the question becomes when did God stop inspiring His Word. If you believe that the translations that we have today are merely a "scholarly help", then I agree that regular folk can't truly read God's message to them, and that they would have to "go back to the original manuscripts". On the other hand, I believe that God loves the regular folk so much, that He has continued to inspire His message to them throughout the centuries. It just doesn't make sense that He would leave something as important as the truth and completness of the Bible to depend on the hands and minds of His fallible creation. Therefore, I believe that God has maintained ALL of the ESSENTIALS even in the current English translations of the Bible. |