... What results is a "pre-digested" Bible containing the interpretation of the "translator." Worse still, paraphrases are often simple re-renderings of a text from an older English translation into more modern, up-to-date language without consulting the original languages at all. Besides being inaccurate, paraphrases are often trendy. The vocabulary they used or the ideas ... meant? Thus the theological presuppositions, and personal biases and assumptions of the translator, while less important than for a paraphrase, still play a major role in determining the resultant translation. The New I...

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... This event in Acts 19 is cited by many Charismatics and Pentecostals as being supportive of a post-conversion Baptism with the Holy Spirit; but this is based on an unclear translation of the original Greek by the authors of the King James Version, which reads, 'Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?' (v.2). Instead, the literal ... translation reads: 'Believing, did you receive the Holy Spirit?', or 'Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?' And this is the translation given by all other versions of the Bible today. As readers will notice, this clearer ... transla...

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... scholars to be Elijah and Moses. They believe that Elijah and Moses will return during the great tribulation and witness to the world about Jesus Christ. This would be a literal translation of this passage in order for this to be true. This passage is symbolic to represent the two witnesses similar to Moses and Elijah. In Revelation 11:5 John states that ... ...

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... in their own faiths, their acts of injustice are later justified as needing to be done for they needed to get right with God. In the Preface of the Koran translation the author states, "It must be acknowledged too, that the Koranattributes to power and justifies blood shedding, persecution, slavery, and polygamy."34 By retelling these wide known fictional ... ...

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... scholars to be Elijah and Moses. They believe that Elijah and Moses will return during the great tribulation and witness to the world about Jesus Christ. This would be a literal translation of this passage in order for this to be true. This passage is symbolic to represent the two witnesses similar to Moses and Elijah. In Revelation 11:5 John states that ... ...

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... suggests that the answer to the condemnation objection is to the wasting of male semen. Daniel A. Helminiak, Ph.D., author of "What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality" says that the translation of the words "man- lying-with-man" was translated from Hebrew to Greek wrong. The Hebrews had no word for homosexual behavior therefore it was translated as "the man who ... ...

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... become much more explicit. The RSV translates the verse way " "You were unmindful of the rock that begot you; you forgot the God who gave you birth-. Now the translation-the God who gave birth- is accurate but very tame. The Hebrew word that is used here for God can only be used to describe a woman writhing in labour pains ... ...

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... his Gospel were he states that " He who believes and is baptized will be saved (Mark 16:16 RSV); but he who does not believe will be condemned." In early translation the distinction that is was the disbelief in Christ that condemned them was not as clear. Due to this misunderstanding the Church started to baptize infants thereby setting a dangerous precedent ... ...

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... of its past. Linguistic Breakdown The English word "gospel" comes from the Anglo-Saxon "god-spell" meaning "God story"# or "good story." The word gospel, in every instance, is the translation of euangelion. The word eu meant, in classical Greek, "well" as opposed to kakos which meant "bad" or "evil." Aggello meant "to bear a message, bring tidings or news, proclaim."# Our ... ...

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... safe. God help me. Amen." Excommunicated and condemned by the Church, he sought refuge at Wartburg Castle, protected by the elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony. There, he began his translation of the Bible, an important step in the development of the modern German language" (Bainton 1997: 144-148). Perhaps one of the main key factors in the rapid spread of ... ...

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