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I'm trying to figure this out. What would keep a man from going to church more than once a month when he can be active throughout the week at the church?

Arthur Pink didn't go to church the last 15 years of his life. Just sayin'. :Cautious

Here is another principle of Optimal Equivalence: “Optimal equivalence appreciates the goals of formal equivalence but also recognizes its limits” (HCSB, "Foreword"). "Formal equivalence" is the term Nida invented for literal translation. It points to the idea that literal translation tries...

Ah. Thanks. I should have caught that my own self.

I've always been curious about something concerning atheists and agnostics. So many of them, going way back into previous centuries, like Robert Ingersoll, and now now Bart Ehrman in this century. My question is, why do they fight so hard against someone they don't believe in? No one in Japan...

Yep, that's him. And he knew the KJV OT better than anyone. I remember once he was walking down the college halls with a facsimile copy of the 1st ed. KJV. A KJV-Only student saw it and said, "Oh, can I read it?" Of course he said yes, but then the student couldn't figure it out!

I can't even tell what you mean by this. Please communicate more clearly. You've been vague and ambiguous throughout this thread. I have my own library with 1000s of books; my son has his library with 1000s of scholarly works. (His office is next door to mine.) Our school library has 10s of...

Are you kidding me? LOL! I read books on Christianity all the time. I'm a professor of Greek, theology, and missions in our Bible college and of theology and Bible translation in our seminary, and I have read copious books to keep up with the disciplines I teach. Also, I'm currently taking a...

The greatest proof of the reality and power of the Word of God, the Bible, is how it changes people. In Japan I was the thrilled spectator of how the Word of God changed U. San, a Yakuza gangster and head of a drug pushing gang. Even before he trusted Christ as Savior he loved the Bible and was...

What in the world are you talking about? There is no "missing gospel." Are you talking about the phantom oral tradition of "Q", which exists in no document? And the "one chapter on the money traders" was never "removed." it exists in the 4th century Vaticanus manuscript of the NT. For crying...

No, Bart Ehrman is a textual critic, so he does not say that the Bible has been "rewritten." (He is listed as an author along with Metzger of the 34th edition of the textbook on that discipline, The Text of the NT.) If you think he does say the NT has been "rewritten," I'd like to see a quote...

Here is another principle of Optimal Equivalence. “The primary goal of translation is to convey the sense of the original with as much clarity as the original text and the translation language permit” (Holman Christian Standard Bible, “Foreword.” Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers, 2009, v.)...

Please get your facts straight. First of all, it is meaningless in this context that he has "PhDs in theology." I don't care how much an atheist is educated, if the degrees are from the wrong place he's wrong from the start. Ehrman's PhD (just one, I believe, not "PhDs") is from Princeton, which...

This is completely false. The Bible has never been "re-written." The Greek and Hebrew mss remain the same. However, it has been re-translated many times.

Christian author Philip Yancey has just confessed to an adulterous affair that took place for 8 years: Philip Yancey admits extramarital affair, will step away from ministry work to focus on marriage. I'm going to throw away the book he wrote that I still have. Adultery is an awful, evil sin...

Amen! Well said.

As independent Baptists, we have no "association" and no headquarters of any kind. As a former missionary, I like this very much, because it means that missionaries are not supported by a group but by individual churches! We had friends in our supporting churches, and were even visited once by a...

It also opens the question of what exactly is due process. Is the determination of harm to my citizens by another nation considered to be due process? Is it due process to kill someone in war because you were commanded to by your government? Are governments allowed to punish evil-doing...

What is your definition of murder?

There are various versions of the Baptist Distinctives, but to me a normative version is one that has five or six valid points, not dumbing down what a Baptist is, but not overdoing it either. There have been Baptists like this ever since the English Baptists at the beginning of the 17th...