Biblical Interpretation or Study - Greek or English or both?

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Mac4Yuma

Mac4Yuma

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Jason0047 said:
How we understand the Bible is key to our faith. Can we have faith by ignoring our own language and by going to a language that we do not really know? I am not in doubt that God can teach us Biblical Greek. However, most times people look to the Greek words while trying to ignore the words in English. For they repented in hearing the Word in English and not the Greek. Why do they cast off their initial acceptance of the Word in English? I believe it is because Seminaries have sold many people on the lie that you can't know your Bible unless you study the Greek. I don't believe God ever told me within His Word to study another language in order to understand His Word. On the contrary, God's Word claims that it would be perfect and preserved for all generations.

Am I against the Greek? By all means no. Greek was the original language in which the New Testament was written. But I don't speak Biblical Greek and I don't have Paul or the other apostles to correct my Greek (If I or another scholar did get it wrong). There is no way for me to know the Greek, unless it lines up with the English. For I believe God preserved His Word in our world language of today (i.e. the English). If not, then God's Word has failed to keep a promise and that is just not possible. So I trust in God's Word (i.e. the KJV) in my own current language. I trust it because it has never let me down. For it has always brought forth good fruit within my life.

What say ye?
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In the first days God spoke and mankind understood.

Then came a change and many languages started.

The Bible shows that when God spoke everyone understood in their language.

To "understand" the Bible one needs only God help as you look for the needed interpretation from other verses that explains the ones that are difficult. Also one must remember the Bibles is just a copy many times over from original writings therefore not all the words in the Bible are from God.

Such is why the reader must learn the story that the Bible is teaching and not just parts.

Mac.
 
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