Words wither and blogs fade away…
Forgive me if you’ve heard this song before, but I've decided to stop blogging at He is Sufficient. I truly appreciate all of the wit, wisdom and words of faith that you have shared with me over the past few years. I wish you well in all of your endeavors, whatever they may be and wherever they may lead you. “God is sufficient for the needs of His people”. Amen!
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Demon possession or the common cold?
One of the common themes we encounter in reading about the miracles of Jesus’ healing is that many of the people were possessed by demons or filled with unclean spirits that caused their afflictions: “They came to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases; and those tormented by unclean spirits were made well.” [...]
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Terms of endearment
Suzanne made a lovely post a while back on diminutives in the Bible, as related to John 13:33 (REB): “My children, I am to be with you for a little longer; then you will look for me, and, as I told the Jews, I tell you now: where I am going you cannot come.” I [...]
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In defense of Bible translation tradition
Jim Swindle has written a defense of traditional, formal equivalence Bible translations: For some Bible scholars, the more traditional translations are good mostly for complaining about. They can’t stand such translations as the English Standard Version, the New American Standard Bible, or the New King James Version. These Bibles use “formal equivalence” instead of the [...]
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Is predestination linear or non-linear?
I’ve been trying to follow discussions of predestination on a number of blogs recently, notable Soul deSaenz and Undeception, but still haven’t been able to get my head around the concept that the salvation that we believe in only finds full fruition in some number of elect people, who were predetermined before the world was [...]
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Living on God’s highway!
Bryan Lilly has commented on a CNN article in which some Christians are convinced that Interstate 35, which runs from Texas to Minnesota, is the fulfillment of a prophecy in Isaiah 35:8: A road will be there and a way; it will be called the Holy Way. The unclean will not travel on it, but [...]
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Interview with Dr. Ed Blum, General Editor for the HCSB
If you have any interest in the HCSB translation (and if you read my previous post, you know that I do), run don’t walk to Will Lee’s blog, Anwoth, where he’s just posted the transcript of a lengthy interview with Dr. Ed Blum, General Editor of the HCSB: I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. [...]
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Choosing a modern Bible translation, part 5
Rick Mansfield has written a nice post detailing his current “Bible quiver”, which contains the usual suspects that he’s noted before: NASB, HCSB, TNIV and NLTse, with a number of other translations in a secondary role. As I’ve been on my own quixotic search for a modern Bible translation or translations, I thought I would [...]
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Style and tradition in translation
Brian Fulthorp made the following comment in my post on translation errancy: I often wonder too if the biggest difference is mostly just stylistic differences – a couple translations can use different words which are actually synonyms of each other (based on the same Greek word) that are chosen more for stylistic reasons more than [...]
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Silence of the tongue: a charismatic exorcism