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!
Category Archives: quotes
Ambiguous grasping in John 1:5
I am continuing my survey of Bible Translation books, now reading Donald Kraus’ volume, Choosing a Bible For Worship, Teaching, Study, Preaching, and Prayer. Kraus is Executive Editor for Bibles at Oxford University Press and presents a fairly even-handed review of translation philosophies, from strict interlinear to cultural paraphrase, though most of his time is [...]
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Reflections on the messianic daughter and the image of God
In his book, In the End – The Beginning, Jürgen Moltmann writes that in contrast to the tradition of the Messiah as a male child as written in Isaiah 9.6 (“to us a child is born, to us a son is given”, there is another messianic tradition in scripture, the Wisdom tradition, that “identifies the [...]
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Working out community exegesis
Down the rabbit hole we go… In a recent comment thread at New Leaven, Bryan L presented the idea that there is a theme of a new exodus within Isaiah that some authors believe Mark adapted and structured his gospel narrative of Jesus around. Bryan cited works by Rikk Watts, Joel Marcus and David Pao. [...]
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The coherence of the Word
I’m slowly reading through Greg Boyd’s “God of the Possible” and came across the following quote, which was offered in the context of doctrinal coherence, but I thought had some interesting applications for the Bible translation debates: Such doctrines provide a framework in which the Word of God makes sense, and this [...] is important [...]
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Translation as sacred text…
In the latest flareup of the translation vs. original languages debate, David Ker offers this nugget of a quote: [...] evangelicals actually believe that a translation of their sacred text is itself a sacred text. Or in other words we believe a translation is the word of God. The other groups you refer to believe [...]
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Grokked, not yoked?
Luke 20:34-36 (TNIV): The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. [...]
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Continuing on with salvation…
Somewhat of a follow up/tag on to yesterday’s post on the function of salvation, I came across the following quote in Harold Best’s “Unceasing Worship” book: God’s creatorhood entails much more than making things; it includes salvation, which is a unique kind of creating work, drawn from the wells of a triune imagination, the extent [...]
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Quote: “They want me to write differently…”
To somewhat seriously follow up on some banter I made on Lingamish regarding God’s choice of heavenly music, here is a quote from one of my favorite classical composers, Anton Bruckner (1824-1896): They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of [...]
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Signs of the sufficiency of Shaddai