No wedding is complete without someone saying, “I had no idea what I was doing when I said ‘I do’.” Well, it is time to put that refrain to death. This generation is learning from its mistakes. May the next generation know exactly what “I do” means. It goes like this....
We (i.e. Peter and I against Yancy and Mike) have reached a dead end on Rom 4:1, so I want to step back to the preceding verse which is difficult as well as ambiguous. I am not satisfied with the traditional treatment of this verse in the commentaries nor the...
What passages do you gravitate toward when evaluating a new Bible translation? Here are a couple of examples: Henry Neufeld: In one place I watch closely in Bible translations, 2 Corinthians 5:20-21, The CEB does use one translation I didn’t think quite make it, “God...
Christians have said and written plenty of words. We hear long sermons about one word in Scripture. The rite of passage for a preacher is to linger in the book of Romans for at least a year. The longer the better. Every week I walk through a seminary library that is...
This verse has been cited as an example of the challenges of Bible translation, so I thought it would be helpful to approach the question of accuracy in translation and some of the linguistic and theological assumptions we bring to a text by looking at the verse in...
For about a year now I have been enjoying using Logos 4 Bible software. It is not my purpose to do a full review here but I wanted to pause from our regular blogs to rise up and call the folk at Logos blessed! Because this software has been an immeasurable blessing...
