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—God Authorizes Accurate Translations of His Word
by David Fanning I
[Note: David has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in Biblical languages with an emphasis on New Testament Greek.]
Prior to God preserving the New Testament in the first century A.D.,
He empowered the apostles to preach the first gospel sermon in each
person’s own language (Acts 2:8-11); thus making it evident that God
authorizes accurate translations of His word (also study Matthew 1:23;
1 Corinthians 14:5, 28; Hebrews 7:2). Furthermore, when Jesus and His
inspired men quoted from the Old Testament Scriptures, they primarily
used the man-made Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament known
as the Septuagint - yet, they would say “as it is written” (Romans
3:9-18). Thus, we can take comfort in knowing that when we use an
accurate English translation of the Greek New Testament and Hebrew Old
Testament, we are studying the utterances of God in an acceptable
manner to Him (1 Peter 4:11). Therefore, God does not require us to
know the Greek and Hebrew.
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