Wednesday, August 23, 2017

God's Word is perfect, but Christians "all stumble a lot"

Update: on infallibility, please see my Translator's Preface to The Christ Family Bible.

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The Holy Bible can be translated so as to preserve its perfection and infallibility, for example by avoiding the common way of translating the Lord Jesus's teaching in Matthew 5:48, where He is made to say that listeners will be "perfect". Christians actually "all stumble a lot", God's Word in James 3:2 says. 

The infallible translation of Matthew 5:48 would instead read, "Thus you will be absolute [i.e. unqualified, in loving all], as the Father of yours, the Heavenly [one] is absolute."

Here as most elsewhere in the Holy Bible we see the operation of the Competitive Principle, where God's Word allows for misunderstanding by the uncooperative reader.

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