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Jun 11, 2019 43 min

The Bible Mafia

from Seminary Stowaways Hosted by Hannah Connor

Today we’re talking about Bible translations. What if I told you that there is a person standing between you and the pure, unadulterated Word of God. No, it’s not Satan. It’s the translator. And also maybe the committee that commissioned the translator. If that sounds weird to you, don’t worry it sounded weird to me too. I mean, a translator just looks at an old manuscript and copies into another language the words that are there, right? Maybe. But what if there is no English equivalent for that word, or what if punctuation is missing!? What then? And it begs the bigger question of how do we decide which translations are most trustworthy and which ones are just rubbish! We’ll get into all that on today's episode. Articles: https://www.seminary.edu/bible-politics-and-theological-bias/ https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2014/10/01/the-politics-of-bible-translations/ Wesleyan Quadrilateral: http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/wesleyan-quadrilateral Ben Stuart’s Sermon: https://faithbridge.org/sermon/is-the-bible-corrupted/

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On this episode, we talk about Bible translators and the benefits of reading multiple translations for a fuller understanding of God's Word.

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