Showing posts with label translation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label translation. Show all posts
Saturday, 8 August 2026

From Anguish Languish to English Language: Trains-lading debt Furry Tail avowed Beers into a Fairy Tale about Bears

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 It's been decades since I first posted Furry Tails to this blog, and since most of my readers are from countries other than the one in ...
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...
Monday, 5 January 2026

A Calvinist Bias in the Translation of Hebrews 10:38--but was it an NIV innovation?

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"Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him." --Hebrews 10:38 KJV Note t...
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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...
Wednesday, 15 February 2017

Who are our neighbors?

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On my way through town the other day I noticed that several yards contained the same sign , with a message in Spanish, English, and Arabic. ...
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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...
Monday, 19 May 2014

Beer and the NIV

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In an earlier post , I decried the TNIV for translating shekar as "other fermented drink" rather than "beer" in Numbers...
Saturday, 12 April 2014

Pelagia the Harlot: An interesting account (part one)

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I'm posting excerpts from an online English translation of Lives of the Fathers . There's a lot to comment on here, but for now I...
Tuesday, 11 March 2014

According to the NIV, Ishmael was always in his brothers' face. But was he?

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Genesis 16:12 O/T/N/NIV He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and h...
Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Pangur Bán: An indoor cat made immortal by writer's block

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This Old Irish poem was found at the bottom of a manuscript in the Benedictine Abbey of Reichenau, situated on an island in the lake borderi...
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...
Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Was Rachab a Harlot?

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Was Rahab Really a Harlot? So asks the title of an article in the September-October issue of Biblical Archaeology Review.  But that's...
Thursday, 30 May 2013

Where in the Middle East was the Red Sea?

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95,295 views I've been online a bit of late researching the fairly recent (as Bible scholarship goes) theory that the Israelites, upon ...