Would you trust this man's interpretation of Genesis?
"The Scientific American (my favorite magazine)
and the accounts in Genesis 1 and 2 made sense
only as two quite different ways of understanding texts:
literally (the Scientific American) and figuratively (the Bible).
But in Genesis 6 the Bible
also says that God himself was sorry for having created people.
This I could readily believe because truly good people
seem to be so scarce." How about it?
Do you trust his interpretation of Genesis? Hi, I'm David Daniels from Chick Publications.
What does this man believe? Obviously, the Scientific American, his favorite
magazine is more important to him
than the literal understanding of Genesis.
Would you trust this man to give you a faithful
interpretation of Genesis? This is man #1. Here is man #2.
Would you want this man to preach in your church?
"Jesus Christ would not enjoy
omniscience. That is an attribute of God." Or this one:
"...Jesus did not claim He and the Father to be one,
which would be absurd."
Didn't this guy read John 10:30? I have it right here.
30 "I and my Father are one."
What if I were to tell you that
this guy was forced to leave the seminary he was teaching at,
and afterwards was picked up by a Bible translation
agency, and later chosen
to head a language's Bible translation project?
One more gentleman.
Ready? This man had to resign from a
worldwide Bible translation agency, because he refused to sign a document saying
that he believed God inspired
the Bible. Out he goes.
And guess who picks him up? Another
Bible translation agency! And guess what?
He was chosen to head another Bible translation
project, for another language! Who are these guys, anyway?
Let me give them to you in reverse order: #3
was William Wonderly. This man had to resign from Wycliffe Bible
Translators/Summer Institute of Linguistics
because he refused to sign that document saying he believed the Bible was
inspired -the scriptures.
He was picked up afterward by
the American Bible Society and chosen to lead
the Spanish Bible translation project
known as the Versión Popular,
or Dios Llega al Hombre,
or as it is called today, Dios
Habla Hoy, God Speaks Today.
This here is a Catholic one and this is an interconfessional one. These are
used by both Roman Catholics and Protestants, to this day.
Man #2 was Robert Bratcher. Let me get you a picture of him right here.
Here he is, this guy. Oops. No, this guy.
Robert Bratcher, he said so many things
against the Bible and against Bible-believers, calling them stupid and such,
that they are posted all over the internet. Just look up "Robert Bratcher" on Google
and you're gonna find him.
This man, then, was forced to resign
from the Baptist Theological Seminary in Rio de Janeiro.
And then he was picked up by
the American Bible Society once again, and chosen
to lead an English Dynamic-Equivalence
Bible translation project, called Today's English Version
or Good News for Modern Man (as you'll see it in these different editions. I have a bunch of them here).
Or now it's simply called the Good News Bible.
And once again, here it is,
in an "inter-confessional" (Protestant and Catholic) edition. And
I don't need to explain this one, do I? No. Who would inspire,
who would hire, all these men?
Just one man. Man #1.
His name is Dr. Eugene
Albert Nida. And he didn't just inspire
these two translations. He also guided
over 200 translations in his lifetime,
and listen to his qualifications. Ready?
He was Executive Translations Secretary of the American Bible Society.
He was also a founding organizer of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, a founding
member of Wycliffe Bible Translators, a founding delegate of the United Bible
Societies,
and an adjunct professor at the Jesuit Pontifical Biblical
Institute in Rome.
I tell more about him in my book, "Why They Changed the Bible."
I wouldn't trust a Bible from
any of these guys. Nor would I want them to teach my kids or preach in my church.
I only trust what God preserved, for me,
in English, the King James Bible.
And I only want to support organizations that support
people that translate, believe and teach
God's preserved words.
There is no room for unbelievers in Bible translation.
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.