Supersillymanable
Puritan Board Freshman
Hello my fellow Puritan appreciators!
So, I have recently started at University studying Theology (please pray for me about that btw, the professors are incredibly liberal, and that's being charitable. This is my head of theology department: Francesca Stavrakopoulou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia if you watch the BBC at all, you'll know what I mean) and I'm having quite an incredible time.
In my stay here, I have become good friends with a flat mate of mine called Andrea, she's from Cyprus and so speaks Greek. Her family come from and the vast majority of people she knows go to Greek Orthodox churches in Cyprus. From what I understand, she loves God, loves Jesus and doesn't really understand fully the differences between a the Protestant faith and Greek Orthodox (let alone reformed!), but loves the Gospel. She's never heard the Bible in her own language, let alone read it, as they don't read the Bible in their language, only in Koine Greek (and Hebrew occasionally when they read from the OT). The Lord had brought about some incredible conversations between us, particularly the other evening when she was helping me pronounce the stuff I was learning in my New Testament Greek classes properly, which lead to us going through John 1 and Genesis 1, which she found wonderful and was full of questions and asked for us to do a Bible study the next day!
The thing that makes me really sad is that she doesn't have the Bible in her own language and has never read it in her own language. She can read New Testament Greek because it's the same alphabet etc, but doesn't understand any of it really. I've tried to find a version of it in modern Greek, but all I can find is the original Greek Bible, put together by modern textual critics. Does anyone know of a place I can get a MODERN Greek translation so I can get her a Bible she can read in her own language? She's really hungry for the word and I thought it'd be an incredible gift for her.
Thank you so much in advance!
So, I have recently started at University studying Theology (please pray for me about that btw, the professors are incredibly liberal, and that's being charitable. This is my head of theology department: Francesca Stavrakopoulou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia if you watch the BBC at all, you'll know what I mean) and I'm having quite an incredible time.
In my stay here, I have become good friends with a flat mate of mine called Andrea, she's from Cyprus and so speaks Greek. Her family come from and the vast majority of people she knows go to Greek Orthodox churches in Cyprus. From what I understand, she loves God, loves Jesus and doesn't really understand fully the differences between a the Protestant faith and Greek Orthodox (let alone reformed!), but loves the Gospel. She's never heard the Bible in her own language, let alone read it, as they don't read the Bible in their language, only in Koine Greek (and Hebrew occasionally when they read from the OT). The Lord had brought about some incredible conversations between us, particularly the other evening when she was helping me pronounce the stuff I was learning in my New Testament Greek classes properly, which lead to us going through John 1 and Genesis 1, which she found wonderful and was full of questions and asked for us to do a Bible study the next day!
The thing that makes me really sad is that she doesn't have the Bible in her own language and has never read it in her own language. She can read New Testament Greek because it's the same alphabet etc, but doesn't understand any of it really. I've tried to find a version of it in modern Greek, but all I can find is the original Greek Bible, put together by modern textual critics. Does anyone know of a place I can get a MODERN Greek translation so I can get her a Bible she can read in her own language? She's really hungry for the word and I thought it'd be an incredible gift for her.
Thank you so much in advance!