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Good question, and I'm sure this is what pro-AI translation people would say. First of all, translation ability is a spiritual gift. It is in the list of spiritual gifts as "the interpretation of languages" (1 Cor. 12:10). God gave me this gift, and I dare not use it for any secular purpose...

Just for the record, the Bible translator who lectured on the dangers of AI Bible translation is one of the top two Bible translators I've ever known. He was the lead translator for the Mongolian Bible, and currently is a consultant on up to ten missionary Bible translation projects. He learned...

No problem. :Cool

Perhaps, but not in Bible translation, because that is obedience to Matthew's Great Commission, and AI cannot obey God. Google translate can use AI to produce a Bible document, but it does this by analyzing the syntax, the semantics, and places on the Internet where the passage has previously...

Ward is a good man. No offense, but what does this have to do with AI translation?

This is an excellent post with lots of relevant information. I have nothing to add. Thank you!

I hadn't thought about doing that, but you are right. So to put it in different words, AI cannot be impartial because the creator of a given AI platform has biases.

Excellent post. Thank you! Headed for a wedding now; maybe I can interact later. Thanks for the post anyways! Confused It's a gimmick. The editor with a PhD is a unitarian, and the other guy has an "engineering background," so I suppose he has no theology training. Neither man shows evidence...

Exactly. One other thing that was pointed out in yesterday's lecture is that AI engines do not know the proper terms in a given language for biblical concepts unless there are already translations in that language out on the Internet. Also, they cannot follow the non-Internet research being...

I may not get back to this for a while, since I'm headed for a niece's wedding, then a family time at the Ark. But I thought I'd get this going. I'm sure there will be plenty of opinions. Was greatly blessed by the speakers in the missionary Bible translation conference I just attended. The...

Please back up and help me on something. You're behind. I've posted several posts you haven't answered, but the most important one to me is, what is your position: universalism, annihilationism, or what? Also, I would like you to answer Post #75. Then I will answer this post.

I agree completely. That's the whole purpose of His sacrifice on the cross.

Back to the OP. I am currently attending a conference on missionary Bible translation, and it's been wonderful! One lecture was on Tyndale as a Bible translator. This man went through incredible hardship to give us our very first English Bible translation, fleeing until he was finally caught...

Not to continue this rabbit trail ;), but a slight correction: gehenna occurs 12 times, yes, but the 12th is not Jesus but James 3:6. So Jesus used the term 11 times, and James once.

We'll agree to disagree, but you have made an interesting point. But if you really want to dig deep in this difficult subject, Alva J. McClain's Greatness of the Kingdom (1968) is the dispensational classic--though to be fair, I don't know if he would agree with all I've written here. ;)...

Again, not a valid comparison, because of the meaning in Matthew of "Kingdom of Heaven."

As I said, it's not correct to include "Kingdom of Heaven" in the study, because that was Matthew's way of referring to what the other Gospels called "Kingdom of God," and it was referring not to the place called Heaven, but the influence of God on earth. This is helpful.

It's not a myth to me. I did my own study on the subject. That phrase in Matthew is simply the Matthaen version of "Kingdom of God," designed to help the Jews understand "Kingdom of God." It rarely if ever actually refers to Heaven in Matthew. Not exactly fair to throw in "General Mentions."...

Here is what many mistake in their doctrine of eternal Heaven and Hell. When you go to Heaven you lose your sin nature. But other than that, you have the same soul you had on Earth. You are the same person. You do not suddenly have a different personality. Hell is the same. When a lost...

Along that line, Hell is not for believers only. In fact, Jesus taught, "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels" (Matt. 25:41). If Hell was not created for humans, but for demons, how is it not...