Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made for relationship, we insist on our own way. Made for beauty, we are satisfied with sentiment. But new creation has already begun. The sun has begun to rise. Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world. It is time, in the power of the Spirit, to take up our proper role, our fully human role, as agents, heralds, and stewards of the new day that is dawning. That, into the new world, God's new world, which he has thrown open before us.
N.T. Wright -- Simply Christian, p. 237
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Humor in Bible Translations
“It’s time to lighten up!
Check out the following translation in the ESV:
There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left. (Luke 17:35, bold added)
Perhaps to Lady Gaga’s Grammy winning Bad Romance.
(Notice how the ESV’s sibling, the NRSV, avoids this by adding “meal” .)
Check out the following translation in the ESV:
There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left. (Luke 17:35, bold added)
Perhaps to Lady Gaga’s Grammy winning Bad Romance.
(Notice how the ESV’s sibling, the NRSV, avoids this by adding “meal” .)
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