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Welcome to the Baptist Board. Wow, I had not heard that story, but I'm not surprised. Hyles was usually obsequious to "Dr. John," but I personally think that was for his own advancement. I knew David Cummins somewhat because at one time he was a Baptist World Mission field administrator, I...

Thanks for a good post. I have just ordered the book.

There is a controversy about that going back to the early church. I believe that there were two Philips, an apostle and a deacon, and that the deacon Philip was the evangelist Philip mentioned in Acts 21, but Apostle Philip is the one said to have become a cross-cultural missionary in the...

Here are the Bible translation degrees I am aware of, and their curricula: Baptist Bible Translator's Institute: Baptist Bible Translators Institute, Bowie Texas - Baptist Bible Translators Institute, Bowie Texas. The current website does not list the curriculum any more, but when they did not...

And the failure to translate "Son of God" for Jesus is a huge weakness. It is capitulation, not faithfulness to the Scriptures. "Son of God" is a crucial theological term. For that phrase our Japanese NT, we rejected the term used by all others for the Son, Miko (御子), which is the gender...

Good thoughts. Good points as long as you realize that textual criticism is a quite different discipline from Bible translation (I'm sure you do), except that they both involve the original languages. I have known of translators who tried to do both, such as Nathan Brown (first Japanese NT...

Good thoughts. So, along with a lead translator, native linguist, style editor, etc., should a translation team have a dedicated theologian? Caveat: many missionary translations are the effort of a single translator, many times without a national linguist. This is on the surface of it...

One thing that I thought someone would catch and no one has, is whether or not Philip planted the church in Samaria; I said he did not, and therefore he was not a church planting missionary, e.g. apostle. Note that there was an apostle named Philip, but he is not the same man as the deacon...

Here's an essay that highlights this issue: “Son of God” Unresolved: Ten Years After a Landmark Petition, Translators Continue to Remove "Son of God" and Insert Islamic Teaching into New Translations - Biblical Missiology

How important for a Bible translator is it to know theology? Can one be a good translator with just knowing some linguistics and somewhat of the biblical languages? About the translators with Wycliffe, D. A. Carson wrote: "I am a huge admirer of their work, some of it undertaken in highly...

"Do the work of an evangelist" and "Be an evangelist" do not have the same meaning. I can say "I do the work of a carpenter" when I built a bookshelf without being one. And I would not make a very good carpenter! As a missionary planting churches, I occasionally did the "work of an evangelist"...

Another cool usage is that "Orpheus forms for himself τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, a group of wild animals, who listen to him in the Thracian mountains where there are no people" (BAGD entry).

As a former missionary striving to be biblical, I reject several traditional views: institutionalism (my mission board did not start institutions, only churches), education (missionaries can be teachers, but a person who only teaches is not a missionary), etc. A biblical missionary, based on the...

Please note that I was referring to the original twelve, who were special in that they were chosen directly by Christ, will sit on 12 thrones judging the 12 tribes, and will have their names written in the foundation of the New Jerusalem. I was not referring to the secondary apostles listed...

Correct about the Greek, but then you have to research the usage. Only one man was called an evangelist in Scripture, and he did not do cross-cultural evangelism or church planting. This is a general statement. It could describe a pastor, missionary, or vocational evangelist. Modern...

Did Jack ever?? (Quote sources, that is?)

In regards to the rejection of Montanism by Eusebius in his The History of the Church (mine is the translation by G. A. Williamson), he quotes extensively from Apollinaris, a 2nd century pastor at Hierapolis in Phrygia from 171, who was a contemporary of Montanus. Eusebius himself made no...

I think one reason my view of apostleship shocks people, and often immediately draws opposition even among careful theologians, is that we have put the apostles on a pedestal. They were merely men, often blundered, and yet were used by the Lord. We've heard sermons about Peter and his big mouth...

It's a pleasure to interact with someone who has read the literature! Understood. I'll leave it there, but I do think it illustrates my point that "apostle" was commonly used after the canon was closed. I always get a kick out of the Didache saying that if an "apostle" comes by, he's a heretic...

I understand your answer, but actually, I don't believe that either document is considered pseudepigrapha. They are both anonymous. But granted, the Didache appears to teach baptismal regeneration, and The Shepherd of Hermes is just plain weird, if you've read it. :Coffee