Recent content by John of Japan

Fact alert: the KJV is an English Bible, and there are billions of people in the world who do not speak English. Therefore, "in the whole World" is not factual. In fact, there are billions of people in the world who do not have access to any Bible translated from the texts of the KJV...

I mostly agree with you about this. However, you say that it the translation philosophy is "far more" important than the Greek text chosen. To me that is like saying the heart is far more important than the liver. But if you lose either one you are dead. Considerations in choosing the NT Greek...

With your many, many words here, you are mixing up the Hebrew Masoretic Text and the Greek TR. Dr. Price is a Hebrew scholar, not a Greek scholar. He does not claim to be a Greek scholar, and is not an expert on the Greek. He never taught it. I took Hebrew from him, not Greek. So all of this...

Either way, the church is obeying the Great Commission, and that is foundational to a church. Having said that, I do think faith promise giving is an excellent way to engage the church members personally in missions. The emphasis on personal involvement raises their missions consciousness.

In our church, we put them outside in the stocks...in the snow...in the cold...all night.:Cool Seriously, though, we don't consider it a pledge in our church. It's simply a private promise to the Lord that if He provides the money, it will go to the missions program. Fulfilling this is totally...

The JWs seem to admire the Greek but can't learn it correctly. I had some interaction along that line with the translator of the Japanese JW version. They translated pisteuo (πιστεύω, believe) as 信仰を働かせる, shinko wo hatarakaseru ("make your faith work").

I have to add that in spite of it all, the KJV is still an awesome translation, and I read it every day! ;)

It is always amusing when someone states that the British scholars of 1611 were far better at Greek than modern scholars. There was so much they didn't know. For just a few examples, they did not know the Granville Sharp Rule, because Sharp (1735–1813) wasn't alive then. They did not understand...

This is ignorant. I have for years translated a verse of my personal devotions from the Hodges/Farstad Greek NT and/or the Byzantine Textform Greek NT. Both of these have a lot of footnotes (the "apparatus") referencing many various mss. Again, Daniels shows his ignorance by saying "The...

Actually, many have substantiated it. I myself can substantiate it. I have done a base translation of the entire Scrivener TR Greek NT into Japanese, and in the process compared the NKJV, the KJV, and the TR. I can thus substantiate that the NKJV is "faithfully based on the Textus Receptus." My...

The truth is, every single one of these examples is a valid rendering from the TR. I checked. I do disagree with the 1 Cor. 1:18 rendering, but it is completely allowable from the Greek, since the original is a present passive participle, meaning it can be translated with either imperfective or...

Speaking of Bible translation biographies, a fascinating one by Margaret Stringer, an IFB translator is...

Which means there are still over 3000 languages with not a verse of the Word of God in their languages. Baptists must wake up to this sad and shameful reality.

I checked it out. Praise the Lord for them! While I greatly respect Wycliffe and its translators, and have read several of their translators' biographies, they have several faults. The main one to me is that their translators are not trained in the original Hebrew and Greek. This means their...

Bible translation is my bread and butter--literally! As a missionary to Japan I led the translation of a new Japanese NT, and now the team is working on an OT. Our NT is the first ever in modern colloquial Japanese from the TR. There was a previous NT from the TR in 1928, but it was in classical...