Posts Tagged ‘Hermeneutics’
The Holy Spirit and Translation Issues Part 2
Supplied Text Can Affect Meaning As Malinda Kathleen Reese and Google Translate have learned, a direct word-for-word translation from one language to another can create sentences that are rough, incomplete, or even unintelligible. There are occasions when a single word in one language is accurately translated into multiple words in another and vice versa. For…
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As we approach the Scriptures to study any topic, and certainly as we approach the study of a topic as complex and controversial as the Holy Spirit we must keep in mind the difficulties that come with working from a translation. Because the Scriptures were not written in modern English, the Bible that you hold…
Read MorePrinciples of Good Bible Study Applied to The Holy Spirit
As we approach a serious Bible study of a topic as misunderstood and divisive as the Holy Spirit, it bears repeating that careful and correct methods of study are of vital importance. When any topic is being considered, whether it is the Holy Spirit, salvation, or who cut off whose ear in the garden, the…
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