Subject: Translation |
Bible Note: Kalos - A post par excellent! It's time Bible readers came to grips with the question of translations. The church sorely needs to know what God actually said, but does it want to know? Along with its infatuation with the demons of easy believe-ism, Word-Faith nonsense, and every brand of liberalism and humanism under the sun, it is hardly surprising that the church is now willing, even eager, to embrace bogus Bibles, and think nothing of following a small band of so-called translators who dictate to it what they think God may have meant by what He said. Have we become so presumptous to think that God doesn't know how to communicate properly and needs His word filtered through the minds of the dynamic equivalence hot shots and slick paraphrastic stylists? Has the modern mind grown so obtuse and flabby that it has lost its ability to think and needs to surround itself with the linguistic crutches afforded by the plagues of dynamic equivalency and paraphrasing? One shudders to think that some of the worst farces of the Bible ever rendered into English have risen high on the charts of best-sellers. Thank you, John, for posting these sobering comments by Dr. MacArthur, and I urge every reader of this Forum to pay particular attention to them. It's time to wake up and stop supporting this mad rush to dumb down the holy word of God. Every time we pluck down our money for one of these literary disasters posing as God's word, we are indeed aiding and abetting them to continue with their pollution of the Holy Scriptures. --Hank |