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“Therefore, all that you desire that men should do to you, you do also to them, because this is the Torah and the prophets.”
- posted: February 09 2004 |
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If the Lord’s Prayer recorded in Matthew 6:9 ff is not the best known passage of scripture in the New Testament, it certainly ranks up there with the best known. In our book, Understanding The Difficult Words of Jesus, David Biven and I pointed out on page 46 two rabbinical parallels to the Lord’s Prayer to which I wish to call your attention in the Passages in Translation for this week.
- posted: January 31 2004 |
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I Peter 3:15 says, in the King James version of the Bible, “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.”
- posted: January 27 2004 |
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In Galatians, Chapter 2, Verse 16, there is a passage in scripture that is of the utmost importance theologically that is mistranslated in most of the recent translations of the New Testament. Interestingly, the old King James has translated this passage correctly, although it is mistranslated in the New King James II. The importance of translating this passage correctly cannot be over-emphasized.
- posted: January 09 2004 |
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In II Corinthians 4:3-4, there is a passage that is not only usually mistranslated but also misunderstood. In the English translation, it mentions “the God of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe.” From that passage, many have erroneously believed that the “God of this world” refers to the devil, which would imply a dualism similar in many ways to the dualism of Zoroastrianism, and completely contrary to the monotheism of biblical faith. The foundation upon which biblical faith is built is monotheism, the idea of one god. However, this one god is known in the biblical text by many different names (see my article here on the Names of God). One of the names for God used in Genesis 21:22 is ‘El Olam’.
- posted: January 03 2004 |
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