This particular work by Bell didn’t hold my interest like many of his others did. Part of the problem was that he trailed off onto other topics briefly. One of the many underlying points was God and sex are connected. God’s unity (Echad) mirrors a relationships unity (Echad). Echad is the Hebrew word that could be translated ‘one’ or ‘one in a group sense’, but even then I don’t think that fully captures the depth of this word.
Of all books I’ve completed, this is one of the hardest to summarize. While this book doesn’t skirt the woman/man and submission/giving aspects of scripture, it’s not written from a Protestant complimentarian perspective. As much as Bell drew on scripture, I think he also draws on some of his trainings in physiology psychology. If you have an interest in this area, this book might be for you. If you are relationship challenged, this book is definitely for you.
ELCA Lutheran leaders announce that a new Lutheran church body will be formed for those leaving the ELCA.
From their website,
Leaders of Lutheran CORE (Coalition for Renewal) have voted to begin work on a proposal for a new Lutheran church body for those who choose to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, they announced Wednesday, Nov. 18.
The votes by the ELCA Churchwide Assembly in August to allow pastors to be in committed same-sex relationships have created a biblical and theological crisis throughout the ELCA and have generated conflict in local congregations. Many congregations and individuals are considering the possibility of leaving the ELCA or have chosen to redirect giving away from the national church.
The full statement is here. There’s always a pretty extensive support list. You can view it here.
This is my opinion. What will keep this conservative ELCA wing from joining with the LCMS or WELS? You’re not going to believe it, it differing views on the roles of women.
I believe that the word-for-word translation claim is a “myth”, at least a translation that is usable. A word-for-word rendering of John 3:16 comes out like this:
So for loving the god the world because the son unique gives because all the believing into him not destroyed but have life eternal
For some of the original Gk. words, I could have selected a number of different English words. Which word is the right one to choose? Mileage will vary and context can be a determining factor as well as opinion. An excerpt from Bruce Metzger’s translation group:
…a purely word-for-word approach would be almost unreadable…Mt. 6:9-10 in a word-for-word rendering
Father of us who in the heavens, be holy the name of you;
Come the kingdom of you;
Become the will of you as in heaven and upon earth.
Hopefully you can see that translating is much more complicated than most let on. To rearrange the original wording is normal in translating. To be forced to substitute two, three or four words in place of a word in another language is also normal.
Today we are announcing the beta release of NLTinterlinear.com, a new website dedicated to helping people study the Bible in the original languages alongside the NLT text.
The website is based on a detailed morphological matchup between the Greek New Testament and the NLT text. The matchup is produced by James Swanson, an author and editor who has devoted his career to writing and editing concordances, and lexicography based on semantic domains. This matchup allows us to produce an interlinear that includes an exhaustive Greek-English Concordance of the New Testament.
You’ve got to hear it to believe it. This is from the King James Only Amazing Grace Baptist Church. This is the congregation led by Grizzard that recently made the news for public burnings of the NIV Bible translation. They also destroyed books from Rob Bell to James White to John Piper to Mark Driskol. Driskol? uh… Well, pretty much everybody is labeled a heretic. Boo and hiss for their pile of shame on the Gospel and the Christian faith, but the song is so silly its funny.
And by the way, if you are in this movement or a Church like this, you’re in a cult…
I apologize if this post doesn’t seem in good taste. I don’t know what it is about cats. When I visit a certain friend, their cat always must climb on my chest and then turn around, and gives me a case of ‘cat butt’ right in my face. Now when I ran across this pic, imagine my horror…
World Magazine, the publication that had originally stoked the fires of this controversy, did a cover story on the TNIV. That story was, in my view, an inaccurate and, at times, inflammatory account. I wrote a fairly brief letter to the editor. They published only a part of that letter. The end result was that I was made to look worse for my written effort. The result of this was to generate more mail, a great deal of it angry and accusatory….Most made assumptions and many called me names and expressed their horror at my departure from the faith. [bold emphasis added]
Application security vendor Cenzic today released its security trends report for the first half of 2009 application. In it, Cenzic claims that the Mozilla’s Firefox browser led the field of Web browsers in terms of total vulnerabilities.
According to Cenzic, Firefox accounted for 44 percent of all browser vulnerabilities reported in the first half of 2009. In contrast, Apple’s Safari had 35 percent of all reported browser vulnerability, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was third at 15 percent and Opera had just six percent share.
Well, pretty much everybody is labeled a heretic. Boo and hiss for their pile of shame on the Gospel and the Christian faith, but the song is so silly its funny.
I apologize if this post doesn’t seem in good taste. I don’t know what it is about cats. When I visit a certain friend, their cat always must climb on my chest and then turn around, and gives me a case of ‘cat butt’ right in my face. Now when I ran across this pic, imagine my horror…
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