What the Bible Actually Says
If we are really Bible people, then we won’t let our rhetoric about the dangers of moralism (or antinomianism!) get out of kilter with what the Bible actually says. I tried to point that out in an article about to be published in mercilessly-cut-to-950-words-form on dead tree pulp (I’ll link to it when it’s available), and I think Michael Kruger has done an even better job of making the same point here. Read it!
Why Bother to Learn Very Well English? OR, Where Are All the Quechua Majors?
Argument Learning a language after childhood is very difficult, so difficult that language learners require powerful motivation. Why then do people learn German? Chinese? French? What pushes them on? Cultural enrichment is one possible motivation. Intellectual stimulation is another. But then why do so few American high schools offer Quechua or Hausa or Garifuna? Are these languages not culturally enriching and intellectually stimulating? You might argue that there are levels of cultural...
New Category: KJV
Over ten years ago, one of my God-given spiritual leaders said in a class that King James Onlyism is actively seeking converts and that, unfortunately, seeking peace by refusing to address the issue was not an option. Conflict was coming, and we needed to go on the offensive. This was coming from a man who is well known for standing firm and standing graciously. This was not an invitation to pugnaciousness or sowing discord among brethren. The school I went to growing up was and is King James...
Another Example of Language Change in the Last 400 Years: Punctuation
Three minutes ago I discovered another passage I had been misreading for years because I always thought of it in 400-year-old KJV language: As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider. (Isaiah 52:14-15 KJV) It was the dashes in the ESV that...