The following is a pre-recorded program.

We're focusing today on your questions about Bible translations.

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. Get into the line of fire now by calling 866

34 Truth. That's 86634 Truth. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown.

Hey friends, welcome to the line of fire.

We're not taking calls today, but you're going to be enriched by today's broadcast.

I posted earlier in the week on Facebook, said if you have a question about translations

of the Bible or translations of a particular verse or a word in the Hebrew or the Greek,

post your questions, and then I will

answer them. So that's what we're doing on today's broadcast. So I'm not taking calls live.

I'm answering questions that were posted earlier in the week. I think you're going to find

this really enriching and helpful. So I start with a question from Daniel. He says this,

why do we use the Maseretic text when the subtergent was translated from a source that is

much earlier? And the subterogen also resolves many of the problem verses that atheists attack.

Okay, first let me clarify that although the Masoretic textual tradition,

which is composed of thousands of manuscripts, and which dates back to, oh, a little over a thousand

years ago in terms of when it was really developing and growing, even though that textual

tradition with vowels and accents is later, it reflects an earlier textual form that we have

in some of the earliest manuscripts extant. In other words, Masoretic textual tradition is the letters with vowel points and

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