To: Jerry Shepherd <jerry.shepherd AT taylor-edu.ca>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Re: Usage of Various Bible Translations
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:28:41 -0500
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.