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For anyone who wants to study this issue out more deeply, here are two books: The Inclusive Debate, by D. A. Carson. This is on the side of gender neutral language, but Carson is a conservative scholar. The Gender-Neutral Bible Controversy, by Vern Poythress and Wayne Grudem. This is on the...

No, the term is "authorial intent," and it is about the inspiration of Scripture. If you believe in verbal plenary inspiration, then you believe that God wrote what He wanted (through human authors) in the original mss of the Word of God. Right! Except they succeed in different ways than men...

If we render "brothers" as "brothers and sisters, we are no longer translating according to authorial intent, but with dynamic/functional equivalence, which weights the rendering towards the modern reader ("reader response" theory). I believe authorial intent--what God actually intended the...

There are two different issues here. One is actually feminism. I remember when adjustments were made back in the day to translations in the name of gender equality, which is a feminist issue. That's where the "brothers and sisters" rendering came from, nothing more or less than gender equality...

Interesting topic. Here is my objection to gender neutral renderings. It is taking a modern movement (feminism) and inserts it into a document 2000 years or more old. News flash: there were no feminists or "gender equality" in the 1st century!!! This practice is called anachronism, and is...

No, I don't think I ever met him. But one meets a lot of people on deputation whose name then escapes!

I see no problem. Stephen gave a ton of historical references in Acts before they stoned him. Nothing wrong with historical references.

I ignore Pink, and here's why from a biography of him: From Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink—Born to Write (Richberry Press, 2013) “He came to the conviction that God is the primary teacher and that man really needs no one else to teach him” (p. 28). As a young man, he enrolled in Moody...

Wow, I missed that! It certainly is strange.

How so?

Dispensationalists take the Bible literally for exactly what it says, and love it as God's Word. How is that reading the Bible (I capitalize it) "through a glass darkly"?

I'd love for easternstar to stand up and be counted as to why he/she is so nasty against dispensationalists. Apparently he doesn't think we can be saved. Then there are kyredneck and SovereignGrace who who gave him thumbs, up apparently agreeing that we cannot be saved since we are...

I knew about that because Hyles gave my uncle a DD from that school back in the day (late 1960s?).

Forgive me. From your OP I thought you knew what it was. No offense is intended, but Brother, if you're going to pontificate about Bible translation, perhaps it would be good to know the terminology. I see no need to contribute more here, since you apparently don't understand the proper...

It is continuous, there are historical references (many books have such, including the book of Acts), and there are recurring themes. (I don't believe I ever said there were not themes.)

Yes. And? What verse are you talking about? Correct. And? It's relating a past event, so I see no problem there. No need to. I see no problem with Satan being ejected from Heaven, and the birth of Christ there is the historical story. Satan currently has access to Heaven, as Job 1 shows.

Please note that I did not say "mind," but "brain." Many confuse the two. The mind is part of the soul, but the brain is the physical part of the body where earthly memories reside, that which is affected by Alzheimer's and other brain diseases. This explains the memory phenomena that you...

I am a dispensationalist. I believe the Gospel as presented in the Bible in 1 Cor. 15: Christ died for our sins according the Scriptures, with the burial proving that, and then He rose bodily from the grave, as proven by 500 witnesses. Do you believe some other gospel? And please enlighten us...

My father had Alzheimer's but he never forgot Christ and his salvation, because that's a spiritual thing, not a brain thing. The last time he went into the hospital, his memory was mostly gone, but as Mom was filling out the form she said, "Chuck, what shall I put down for religion?" Dad...

Never heard of this in my life.