The following is a pre-recorded program. So what do the Hebrew and Greek texts really say?

It's time for The Line of Fire with your host, activist, author, international speaker, and theologian, Dr. Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution.

Michael Brown is the director of the Coalition of Conscience

and President of Fire School of Ministry.

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Here again is Dr. Michael Brown.

Hey friends, welcome to the special edition of the Line of Fire.

I have been soliciting questions on our Facebook and Twitter accounts. Hey friends, welcome to the special edition of the Line of Fire.

I have been soliciting questions on our Facebook and Twitter accounts, Bible translation questions, questions about specific verses, questions about the Hebrew, questions about the Greek, questions about different translations of the Bible in general.

And we're devoting the entire broadcast today to digging into those questions together. You know, a lot of people feel that if I could just know the Hebrew,

if I could just know the Greek, then the word would open up to me, as if English translations

are somehow suspect, as if there is this hidden conspiracy of Bible translators

and all different denominations and over the centuries and different branches of the church

and the synagogue as well and they're all suppressing what the text really says. No,

no, quite the contrary. Scholars for many years now have been doing their best, and Bible translators have been

doing their best to open up the meaning of the scriptures so that people could read the Bible

in their own language. And as I've studied Hebrew for decades and Greek less so, but studied

languages enough to know how to use the best dictionaries and come to solid conclusions

about Greek as well, I can tell you that we have many fine translations, many beautiful

translations, but no translation is going to be perfect because it comes through human hands.

And every translation on a certain level is a commentary. What do I mean? That if you will look at

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