The Bible Wasn’t Written in English – Paradigm E9

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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What makes the biblical languages so important? Because the Bible was written in another time and culture, we need to honor its ancient historical context and original languages as we read and study it. In this week’s podcast episode, Tim, Jon, and Carissa explore why an awareness of the Bible’s culture––and our own––can help us be better interpreters of the Bible.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is John Collins at Bible Project, and we are finishing up a series called The
0:09.8	Paradise Series.
0:10.8	We're looking at how we view the Bible.
0:13.6	What type of literature do we think the Bible is?
0:16.3	Since we've started this project seven years ago, the most common question that we get
0:21.0	from people is what translation of the Bible should I use?
0:24.3	It's a sincere question without a real easy answer.
0:27.9	Because behind the question is the understanding that the Bible was written in an ancient
0:32.2	culture and in an ancient time using ancient languages.
0:36.9	And we want to know how do we best understand that time, that culture, and those languages?
0:41.6	This is actually a massive area of learning and understanding.
0:46.2	So I find the simplest on ramp to this whole part of the paradigm is just to focus on one
0:51.9	little part of it.
0:53.2	And it's not like ancient Israelite cultural customs or food in the ancient world.
0:57.8	But just to focus on words.
1:00.0	Words.
1:01.0	Words are the building blocks of language.
1:04.5	Words are the most basic way we try to make meaning out of the realities that we find
1:09.4	ourselves in.
1:10.6	So for example, our English word, heart.
1:13.4	We can use that in a couple different ways.
1:15.8	We can refer to the actual organ that we have.
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