christianhope
Puritan Board Freshman
Regarding the bible translation process:
I always have a hard time understanding how so many in our day are ready to discount our beloved calvinistic reformers during the times of the reformation as ignorant or foolish- yet we are ready to trust just about anyone nowaday's to translate our bibles for us as long as they meet the scholarly requirement no matter their character or theology. What ever happened to principles taught in our bibles regarding the requirments of teachers? Do the pastoral epistles now only apply to pastor's and not to those whom we give sanction to translate the very Word's of God? Yet when one now goes to seminary today he is "taught" by such men as Metzger how to properly 'divide the word of truth.' Does anyone else see a sad contradiction here? How can we expect God to be pleased with such methods?
I am not stating this to be offensive or divisive, but I personally cannot distinguish textual criticism from some form of a teaching ministry.
I always have a hard time understanding how so many in our day are ready to discount our beloved calvinistic reformers during the times of the reformation as ignorant or foolish- yet we are ready to trust just about anyone nowaday's to translate our bibles for us as long as they meet the scholarly requirement no matter their character or theology. What ever happened to principles taught in our bibles regarding the requirments of teachers? Do the pastoral epistles now only apply to pastor's and not to those whom we give sanction to translate the very Word's of God? Yet when one now goes to seminary today he is "taught" by such men as Metzger how to properly 'divide the word of truth.' Does anyone else see a sad contradiction here? How can we expect God to be pleased with such methods?
I am not stating this to be offensive or divisive, but I personally cannot distinguish textual criticism from some form of a teaching ministry.