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To: OneVike

Point well taken. You quoted from accurately from the commonly used translations. My complaint is with the translator’s lack of courage to sometimes state things as powerfully as God originally did.


10 posted on 01/03/2010 1:26:38 PM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: theBuckwheat
My complaint is with the translator’s lack of courage to sometimes state things as powerfully as God originally did.

Again, I would have to agree with you. We live in such a pc world that I am often times castigated for using terminology that the Prophets of old would used frequently. They used such harsh language to drive the point home of how God saw their iniquities. However, so many today get upset when you use the original word for a donkey let alone the true description of the way God saw their unrighteous, self righteous works.

Get angry at sin, and you are accused of not loving your neighbor. Call sin, sin and you are called judgmental. compare false teachings to the works of Satan, and you are called legalistic. And this all by so called religious Christians who would rather not be judged.

I can write an apologetically laden message about any of a dozen topics and thousands will read my article. I write a devotional message that uplifts the soul and teaches God's precepts and maybe a few hundred will spend the time it takes to read it. We live in times similar to what Isaiah and Jeremiah likened to the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. The question is, can we stand in the face of evil and apathy that as they did and continue to tell the truth? Regardless of the damage our character will take in the eyes of the world, like Jeremiah, Isaiah and other Prophets of old did, we too must stand tall.

I care for the sadness I notice see in my wife's eyes, when she sees the attacks I take from secular Christians. Attacks that come when I speak the truth's of God's Words. However, God does want His message heard, so I must balance the pc worlds expectations with God's. It and it is a fine line, and while it is a line I will always balance in the favor of God, it is a line never the less.

12 posted on 01/03/2010 2:50:25 PM PST by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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