Jason Bollman

@Seth_Troutt Ok so a handful of obscure English translations and one prominent Roman Catholic translation, but no major English translations. And all published in the last 40 years or so? Again I would caution against undermining people's faith in God's word for novelty.

@JasonB1689 The OG rendering is the LXX and that predates Jesus. Also NET, NJB, REB, GNT/TEV, NEB.

From a seminary paper I wrote: The ESV renders Isaiah 3:9, 12 as “They proclaim their sin like Sodom…they have brought evil upon themselves…My people—infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them!” This rendering in the ESV is incorrect. There is a well-documented textual problem in 3:12 – the word for infant (nogeshow) is similar to extortioners (nageshim). Also, the next word in the MT begins with an mem, thus the “m” at the end of extortioners would likely have been dropped out not added in; in addition, the word for women (wenashaem) is similar to the word creditors (wenoshim). Thus, because the second difference is only vowellular and the prior is consonantal, the later would be predicated on the former and the two nouns are in parallel. Therefore, as it is more likely that a mem would drop out than be added in, it is thus more likely that the best rendering of the verse is: “My people - the extortioners oppress them and creditors rule over them.” -- Our credit card and national debt is the tell that God is judging our nation per Isaiah 3. Seminary is important; where you go to seminary is also important. [ps I like where @MBTS is headed]

@Seth_Troutt Ok, my apologies. So one. My last point still stands. One out of how many? Pretty sure that's descriptive of the term novelty.

@JasonB1689 lol nets is not that global.oup.com/academic/produ…

@Seth_Troutt Yes, the one translated by proxy from internet submissions.... Brother, I say this in all seriousness, beware of undermining the word of God for the sake of novelty or clicks. Does a statement like yours increase the confidence of God's people in His word or cause uncertainty?

@JasonB1689 One example: the NETS goes this way: ccat.sas.upenn.edu/nets/edition/3…

@Seth_Troutt That's about as a vague a reply as possible, are the "lots of other people" translation experts who've been published? Which major English translation can we find their work in? Do they have the same track record with languages that most of our original translators had? Names?

@JasonB1689 no lots of other people have read it like that, too

@Riddle1689 Is this problematic?

Question for confessional Reformed Protestant men who use the ESV translation: Is it problematic that Crossway since 2018 has the ESV Catholic Edition? ESV-CE FAQ: #faqs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">catholicbible.org/#faqs

@EddyEkofo Is this problematic?

Oh dear.

@BaptistBavinck Apparently we were better off not knowing.

I don’t know who Ryan Hurd is

@EddyEkofo Why should I as a Christian and not a Papist want to engage with Aquinas? Or any other Papist for that matter? Someone so fundamentally wrong on the gospel has nothing to offer.

Read it!

@plainrunner2 @KerryNietz

@plainrunner2 There is good truly christian bonnet fiction out there, you just need to know where to look.

The only way this changes is outside the Christian publishing/producing market. I would also say that, by and large, the Protestant church simply does not know what to do with art - and almost doesn't see the point - unless it's worship music.

@plainrunner2 Bonus, scifi and light horror all covered as well.

@BaptistBavinck @CalebMPowers Agreed, it was the major sticking point for me in the book. I was pleased to see the engineer that honored the Lord in it though. Not the norm for Weir.

@CalebMPowers The Martian has worse language, but is a better book, imo. Weir is brilliant — but Project Hail Mary could be so much better if it didn’t give into the tired humanistic evolution trope.

Man, I really need to read some Andy Weir.

@ColtonYarbro Preordered a copy, Green Pastures was great. Have high hopes for this one.

Let’s go!

@BrokenWharfe Loved Green Pastures, looking forward to this one.

@EddyEkofo @brandon_adams Using this one, thank you sir!

@brandon_adams I got this one saved

Anyone have the Moloch/abortion meme/cartoon with a woman sacrificing her child to have a career? Thought I bookmarked it but can't find it.

@MitchellSheten1 I think it's funny that he uses Pilgrim's Progress as a name and pushes Baxter so heavily, considering Baxter's opinion of Bunyan.

How cute, just like Baxter! I love repeating history ❤️. Whenever you're ready to talk shop, Keach and I will be waiting for you lil bro :). 🫶🦋

@plainrunner2 Aaaannddd.....????

I hear tell its Indie April... Some readers have said "Travel By Star" is what you might get if Lord of the Rings met Lonesome Dove. That's a tall order, but I am thrilled at the comparisons. For my part I will simply say adventure awaits the brave soul. And love is never as far off as we think. P.S. There are some pretty rad horses in here, too.

@MichaelCarlino Guess this doesn't count then.

Whenever someone cites the narrative of the Ethiopian eunuch as warrant for baptism outside of the local church: