Hello, I'm Creflo Dala, and this is the Creflo Dala Ministries podcast.

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builds your faith, and above all else, helps you to understand grace and empowers you to change.

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This is my Bible.

This is the book where supposedly we get all of the truth that we live by. But there's one thing about this Bible that we hadn't spent a lot of time talking about is that this Bible was not written in English originally.

The English language was not the original language for this Bible.

The original language for this Bible, Old Testament mostly, was originally Hebrew, and the New Testament

that we lived by and study came from a Greek language. So this Greek language, as well as this

Hebrew, the Greek language is so vastly different from the English language.

That's the first thing you got to understand.

It's so vastly different from the English language.

Sometimes you come across a word where there is just no equivalent in English.

And if you read the Greek translation of the Bible, sometimes it seems like, well, they

need to put a conjunction or something in there to hook it up.

But that is important.

And for some reason, over the years as ministers of the gospel, I don't know if we ever thought it was important enough

to share it with the congregation.

It's the stuff that they share in seminary with the preachers

and it needs to be shared with the congregation.

And because our Bible is translated into English,

we tend to read it with an English understanding.

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