Showing posts with label Greek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greek. Show all posts
Sunday, 2 August 2026

The NIV's Reformed slant in Galatians 6:16

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Part and parcel of Calvinism is the notion that the Church has replaced Israel as the object of Divine favour and as the recipient of Divine...
Sunday, 26 December 2021

The Never-dying Confusion over the Never-die Promise of Jesus

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"Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the...
Monday, 17 August 2020

Who are the false teachers in Acts 20:30?

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 As I posted earlier ( here , here , and here ), The Newer and Improveder International Version has a hard time being consistent with its tr...
Monday, 24 September 2018

Does χιλια ετη mean a thousand years?

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As promised in my last post, here is a critique of Peter Hoover's view of the Millennium. In an email broadcast on August 12, he wrote b...
Tuesday, 6 December 2016

A sister, a wife: Lingering patriarchy in the Newer and Improveder NIV

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It is well known that the major impetus behind the latest two revisions of the New International Version was egalitarian. Egalitarianism has...
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Monday, 6 April 2015

1 Peter 2:2--Another Calvinist mistranslation in the NIV

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"Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation," --NIV 1973-2011 "As infa...
Tuesday, 17 March 2015

The pro-Calvinist slant of the NIV

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I have not written on the NIV for some time, but recent posts by Brian Abasciano brought out the fact that a pro-Calvinist interpretation of...
Wednesday, 2 July 2014

Pelagia the Harlot, part three

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Having written earlier about Pelagia the Harlot ( here and there ), it's time to wrap up my evaluation of this ancient account (but see...
Tuesday, 24 December 2013

A Review of R. H. Allen's "Guidance on Abortion"

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I recently came across what purported to be a Bible-based look at the abortion issue, written by a youth pastor. Since probably most abortio...
Thursday, 30 May 2013

Missing in Action: The NIV's Young Men in 1 Peter 5:5

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Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God re...
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Monday, 14 November 2011

Brothers in the hood: Racism in Romans 9:3-4. NIV

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I have earlier defined racism as: The belief that one's own race is superior to all others, and that with that superiority come cert...
Saturday, 24 September 2011

The NIV in Philippians 1:1--an inclusive translation?

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I earlier wrote a post on the O/NNIV's flipflop on women and children in Acts 21:5. My readers might have caught this (according to B...
Friday, 23 September 2011

Priscillian and Leo on the Johannine Comma

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I have written earlier on the Johannine Comma, without mentioning Priscillian, who is thought by many to have been its author around 380. ...
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Thursday, 9 June 2011

Roman Catholics react to the loss of their New Testament

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During the 1970's it was a common misconception that the term "separation of church and state" was enshrined in the US Constit...
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Thursday, 19 May 2011

Copasetic

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I first heard the word "Copasetic" used about 25 years ago. It was immediately clear from its context what the word meant: satisfa...
Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Where did all that water go? The NIV and Luke 14:1-4

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In John chapter two, we read of Jesus turning water into wine. In Luke chapter fourteen, we read of Jesus making water disappear into thin ...
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Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Did the Apostle John die a natural death?

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Century IX . From the   Chronicon   of George Hamatolos ( the sinner ), codex Coislinianus 305 (Lightfoot-Holmes 6): Μετα δε Δομετιανον...