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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

I have some more from history. :Sneaky Here are two of the earliest church documents we have, the Didache (AD 100) and The Shepherd of Hermes (AD 150). The Didache: “Let every apostle, when he cometh to you, be received as the Lord; but he shall not abide more than a single day, or if there be...

I know that "evangelist" is the term used by some theologians (Chafer, etc.) for the modern church planting missionary, but that doesn't hold water. Modern evangelists such as John R. Rice object to this position. Rice had a genuine brouhaha with Chafer over this. Note: 1. Philip is the only...

That's a good OP, but there is something missing: there were more apostles than just the 12 and Paul. The most immediate example is that Paul and Barnabas were called apostles together in Acts 14:14: "the apostles, Barnabas and Paul." However, beyond that, there were others: Andronicus and...

A major difference, again, is the autonomy of the local church. This website shows the hierarchy of a main denomination of the Mennonites: Church Structure | Mennonite Church USA. Mennonites are a denomination, as this website says, but the typical Baptist will deny that there is a Baptist...

Easy peasy if you grew up in the '60's. It's the plastic water bottle.

Well, it's a hymn. Who pays attention to the lyrics?? :Biggrin

Nope. You used the generic "Independent Baptists." That's better. I did not use the term "mainstream." I think IFBs are two independent to have a "mainstream!" ;) Of course there was influence. But there were no direct connections. No early Baptist pastor or other leader I know of came from...

Point taken.