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Very true. Capitalizing divine pronouns is a form of honorifics. Having ministered in a language with extreme honorifics, Japanese, I like this English honorific tendency. I've even seen it outside the Bible recently. Another form of English honorifics is addressing people as sir, ma'am miss...

Amen to all of that.

Another theological issue that comes up in translation is the usage of honorifics as relates to God. Virtually all languages have honorific morphemes (sounds with meaning) and even semantics (word meanings), but some have a lot more, such as Japanese, Thai, etc. The problem develops especially...

"Arminianism." Not connected with the nation of Armenia. Just sayin'. Trying to be helpful. :) Doctrinally I'm with you.

We had a supporting church in Hawaii for many years. Had to stop there every furlough. Tough duty, but someone has to do it. :Biggrin

In any martial art, misdirection is very important. We call it "a feint." So in Judo, I make fake a hip throw and go from there to Osostogari, the outer reaping throw. A boxer of MMA fighter may jab with his left to draw the block, then hook with his right for the KO. A wrestler may shoot in for...

And Webster says about misdirection: "the act or an instance of misdirecting or diverting" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misdirection). So misdirection may or may not have words involved. If there are no words ("an untrue statement" as your definition says), then it cannot be a...

The first battle of AI. David employed misdirection by pretending to the Philistines that he was crazy. They bought it, but he had not lied, just misdirected. Or, the Nazis come to my door and say, "Where is the Jew?" I answer, "Give me a break. How would I know?" I have not lied, but...

Misdirection involves the other side misunderstanding what I say, not me speaking something that is not true. If misdirection is lying, then God commended lying at the battle of Ai.

There is no need to lie. I would use misdirection. And pray. God cares what happens in such situations.

I have Chiniquy's book and read it many years ago. At the time I believed what it said, since it is biographical. There are scholarly books out there that do a good job informing about the religion, such as Lorraine Boettner's book. I don't remember that one. Pretty sad. He cared about souls...

I have occasionally looked at The Two Babylons, but never felt drawn to using it as a source. Never seemed scholarly to me. And as for Rivera, he was proven to be a fake (don't ask for details; it's been years) by somebody. When I myself looked at his claims, I too felt he was a complete fake...

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...