sotzo
Puritan Board Sophomore
Why is it OK that we don't have the original autographs?
It seems to me even if we had them, most of us could not understand them anyway without them being translated to our native tongue, thus moving from the infallible autographs to a translation.
Secondly, even if we (by "we" I mean people like me, rather than some of you seasoned Greek / Hebrew linguists llike Metzger, et al), we would still be subjective interpreters of the text...not advocating a relativistic interpretation grid here...just that we are, after all, not able to objectively grasp the truths of an infallible text in a way that is commensurate with their force as infallible.
Thoughts? I am trying to sort through what the implications would be of actually hacing the autographs and what that would mean practically for our Christian lives.
It seems to me even if we had them, most of us could not understand them anyway without them being translated to our native tongue, thus moving from the infallible autographs to a translation.
Secondly, even if we (by "we" I mean people like me, rather than some of you seasoned Greek / Hebrew linguists llike Metzger, et al), we would still be subjective interpreters of the text...not advocating a relativistic interpretation grid here...just that we are, after all, not able to objectively grasp the truths of an infallible text in a way that is commensurate with their force as infallible.
Thoughts? I am trying to sort through what the implications would be of actually hacing the autographs and what that would mean practically for our Christian lives.