If We Can Trust Our Bibles, Why Study the Originals?

How the Original Languages Help Us Understand God's Word and Worship Him 

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How do the original languages deepen our study of the Word?

Multifaceted, but because the Bible was written originally in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, translations do a wonderful job, however, nuances be missed in translation. We still get the meaning, we can know the idea of what the original manuscript was saying, but studying, key word there, allows us to dive deeper, understand better, and more accurately.

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Was going to explain why the original languages are important, but instead, let’s walk through it together!

You can generally trust your translation.

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Here are just a few reasons why at least a surface level understanding of the original languages are important.

Original languages for study: 

• Grant a greater understanding of nuances in the text 
• Help us test teaching and detect false teachings more easily 
• Better understanding of translations and discerning translation types 
• Grow in a richer, worshipful understanding of God's Word 

In this episode we are going to briefly unpack each one. 

The point here. Know your Bible. Know it well. Know it with humility before God. Let it shape you, let it master you. So you know and love the LORD.

Greater understanding of nuances in the text 

Matthew 7:7

Ask seek knock 

Explain tenses briefly 

"Tense in English refers to both the time when the action of the verb takes place and the form of the word."

11 William D. Mounce, Basics of Biblical Greek: Grammar, ed. Verlyn D. Verbrugge, Third Edition (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009), 123. ]

Test teachings (not critically) and detect false teachings more easily 

John 1:1 

"the Word was God", not "a god".

Refuting Jehovah Witnesses. There’s no article before theon. 

Better understanding of translations and discerning translation types 

Romans 3:23 Different translations 

ESV, NLT, NIV, NET and others. 

Psalm 37:4 Gloss for delight and it’s use in Is 57:4

Grow in a richer, worshipful understanding of God's Word 

John 19:30

The beauty of tetelestai

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Resources:

Biola on Tetelestai

Blue Letter Bible on Tenses and other Greek goodnes

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