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Having the Bible in the language and translation which speaks to people best is essential for evangelism, discipleship, and church growth. Jesus told his followers to take the gospel to all the world, but there are still thousands of communities without God’s word in their own languages. Today, 1 in 5 people don’t have the Bible in their ...
Translation is not simply a way to convey the message: translation is the message. The incarnation translates and embodies God’s love for creation. That translation of God’s love into human history, commencing with Abraham and climaxing in Jesus, is the great and gracious risk of the mission of God. That risk of translation became global as ...
Jun 29, 2017 · The Bible doesn’t answer these questions from a merely academic perspective. It tells us the story of God and His people. It unveils the plan of redemption through the blood of Jesus Christ. It tells us what the future holds. The Bible is God’s Word to us. But if we are to live under the authority of God’s Word, we need to understand what ...
Article by Dave Hare, Bible Translator in Cameroon. Current surveys indicate that there are over 7,300 living languages in the world today. Of these languages, only about 700 languages (less than 10%) have a full translation of the Bible. 1 Although this statistic is staggering, you might wonder if there is a need for the Bible to be translated into all the world’s languages.
A translation of the Bible is a scholarly attempt to translate the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words of the Bible into an understandable modern language (i.e., English). According to Wycliffe (a prominent Bible translation organization), 717 languages have a complete translation of the Bible. Biblical scholars and linguists work to ...
That’s why, at Life.Church, we’re passionate about Bible translation and getting God’s Word to everyone, everywhere. So we’ve partnered with illumiNations to support teams of local leaders in key areas around the world as they work to translate the Bible into their native languages. illumiNations is an alliance of 11 Bible translation ...
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Why we translate the Bible. Bible translation is a crucial activity in the mandate of the church as it seeks to be effectively involved in God’s mission in the world. We believe God calls us all to be involved in mission in some way, since living out and sharing the good news of God’s Kingdom is an appropriate response in love to his ...
