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🗓️ 15 February 2017
⏱️ 7 minutes
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0:00.0 | Today's question comes from Trisha. |
0:06.7 | Hello Pastor John. |
0:07.7 | My name is Trisha. |
0:08.7 | I'm from Michigan. |
0:09.7 | I know the ESV is your preferred translation, but it sometimes find the wording of the ESV |
0:14.4 | hard to understand. |
0:15.6 | So I often switch to the NIV, the Holman Christian Standard Bible, or the new living translation |
0:21.1 | for clarity on a passage. |
0:23.4 | Do you think it's important to stick with one translation for reading and meditation? |
0:26.3 | As a Christian, I want to live and breathe scripture because I know it's the very word |
0:29.8 | of God. |
0:30.8 | I would love to hear your thoughts about sticking with one main Bible translation. |
0:34.8 | I've read that many Puritans not only used one translation for their entire life, but |
0:38.8 | also used the same physical Bible for a lifetime. |
0:42.5 | Knowing it so intimately is to have a visual memory of where the text was on a given page. |
0:48.0 | Will I be missing out if I only use the ESV and come across wording I don't fully understand? |
0:53.4 | What would you say Pastor John? |
0:55.2 | I love the way she asked the question about wanting to live and breathe scripture. |
1:00.8 | That's beautiful. |
1:01.8 | And she's right that I find the ESV, the English Standard version, to be a translation |
1:08.7 | that while not perfect, there aren't any strikes such a good balance between formal equivalence |
1:16.1 | to the original language as far as possible and readability and appropriate dignity while |
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