Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

At 03:14 PM 1/7/2005, you wrote:
> Chuck,
> I have less and less confidence
> that in many churches the leadership is able to make the distinctions.
>
> Jerry

Even when I was in Seminary (late 80's) Greek and Hebrew were no longer 
required for MDiv students.  A few of us intrepid souls took both and were 
viewed as oddities.  Many a time some classmate or other denounced the 
"waste of time" that such study entailed.  My pat response was, "if the 
Bible is the text you preach from, and you use a translation, you are 
simply taking someone else's word for what it says".

Church leaders today are, by and large, utterly ignorant of the bible and 
what it says.  They get their sermons from idiotic sermon books because 
they cant think for themselves.  So it shouldn't surprise any of us that 
lay people have no clue and run to read horrid versions.

Jim



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