DMcFadden
Puritanboard Commissioner
Since I specialize in beating dead horses . . . one more time . . .
IF you want a formal correspondence and "readable" English translation of the Critical Text you only have ONE (or two if you count the HCSB) choice, the ESV.
It is not a case of being blindly ESV, ESV-only, or susceptible to financial motivations. It is simple arithmetic: 1 = 1.
Now, if you are open to a more thought-for-thought translation (I'm not), you multiply your options considerably.
And, if you accept the arguments for the TR/MT as compelling (and I find them more so all the time), you have the KJV and the NKJV.
But, given the scholarly commitments and theory they accept regarding textual transmission, the evangelical and Reformed leaders who have endorsed the ESV hardly have any other choice.
As Rodney King used to say: "Can't we just get along?" Poor Piper, Grudem, Frances Chan, MacArthur, Chapell, Driscoll, Ryken, Schreiner, Sproul, Wallace, and more. Can they help it that once you narrow the decision tree to a CT + formal correspondence + readable translation, there is only one choice left?
IF you want a formal correspondence and "readable" English translation of the Critical Text you only have ONE (or two if you count the HCSB) choice, the ESV.
It is not a case of being blindly ESV, ESV-only, or susceptible to financial motivations. It is simple arithmetic: 1 = 1.
Now, if you are open to a more thought-for-thought translation (I'm not), you multiply your options considerably.
And, if you accept the arguments for the TR/MT as compelling (and I find them more so all the time), you have the KJV and the NKJV.
But, given the scholarly commitments and theory they accept regarding textual transmission, the evangelical and Reformed leaders who have endorsed the ESV hardly have any other choice.
As Rodney King used to say: "Can't we just get along?" Poor Piper, Grudem, Frances Chan, MacArthur, Chapell, Driscoll, Ryken, Schreiner, Sproul, Wallace, and more. Can they help it that once you narrow the decision tree to a CT + formal correspondence + readable translation, there is only one choice left?