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Originally posted by IRISHMAFIA
Are you insinuating that God has gone out of the "inspiration" business
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No, only that the biblical translations from one language to another are not considered inspired... IOW, the choices of how to translate ancient Hebrew into modern English has all kinds of issues, including punctuation, capitalization, trasnaltion of idioms and other figures of speech, sentence structure, and even in the case of ancient Hebrew is that character a letter or a numeral? These choices were made by theologieans, scholars, and linguists, not by prophets of God operating under direct inspiration.
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Originally posted by IRISHMAFIA
and that any writing, telling or translation of scripture is invalid if presented in the English language?
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No, only that differences between the King James Version and the New American Version (for example) represent differences in scholarship, time, choice of what is the "best" manuscript, or, perhaps, theology, but do not result from the inspiration of God. Therefore, people who claim the inerrancy of scripture need to recognize that inerrancy does not apply to a translation. The translators have erred in many instances. If a particular scripture is being studied, the student is well advised to use several translations, compare them, understand what was behind the differences in translation.