I typed in Google about "speaking holy language" and got a lot of websites discussing or arguing or maybe pontificating about the following: Is speaking in tongues (ecstatic speach) a holy language? <No. ecstatic speach doesn't have the structural qualities of a language so it is not a language-- holy or otherwise.> What is the …
Tag: bible translation
What Makes the Holy Bible Holy?
So it started with a shared media content thing on FB. Some preacher was arguing that we should not simply go to church with a Bible app on our cellphones. We should bring our (paper) Bibles because, "It is called 'The Holy Bible' not 'The Holy Cellphone.'" I am sure there is a great name …
Theology and Anthropology, Part 3
I think of this part as a bit more straightforward. Cultural Anthropology is important in contextual theology. Consider the above image. The Bible comes to us as divine revelation that is embedded in certain source cultures (Ancient Jewish and Hellenstic-Roman particularly). If we accept that the canon of Scripture is closed, and identify that the …
Is the Bible Translatable? Part I
Is the Bible translatable? Now when I am asking that, I am not asking whether the words of the Bible can be translated into another language. I am asking: Can the Holy Bible be translated into another language and still be the Holy Bible. Can the Bible be translated and still be reliable? These two …
Quote from William Tyndale (1494-1536)
"I had perceived by experience, how it was impossible to establish the lay-people in any truth except the scriptures were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue that they might see the process, order, and meaning of the text... I wish that even the weakest woman should read the Gospel--- should read the …