Comments on: Why I Still Read The NIV http://afcmin.org/ateam/1832/why-i-still-read-the-niv Helping plans come together, one post at a time Sun, 03 May 2015 14:00:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.9 By: David N http://afcmin.org/ateam/1832/why-i-still-read-the-niv/comment-page-1#comment-3632 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:07:06 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=1832#comment-3632 Dillie-O, thanks for the encouragement!

]]> By: Dillie-O http://afcmin.org/ateam/1832/why-i-still-read-the-niv/comment-page-1#comment-3631 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:03:10 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=1832#comment-3631 Great article! After taking a hermeneutics class in college and understanding the differences in translations, I realized that there isn’t an “authoritative” translation that should trump the rest, unless you want to go back to the Hebrew and Greek. 8^D If anything, having multiple translation readily available for the intense study sessions help bring insights to passages because of how they treat the text for the translation.

This even applies with different languages! I’ll never forget the first time I pulled out my French bible to read the Romans 1:21 passage and realized the verb “know” in that context was the verb that meant more that just head knowledge, but an intimate personal knowledge. It was amazing!

I was giddy to get an ESV for myself, seeing the new maps and who had worked on the project and then realized I have about 14 years worth of sermon notes, personal notes, and miscellaneous annotations in my Ryrie NIV Study Bible, and that is some good stuff that’s hard to simply transfer over to a new bible.

Keep up the good work, from a fellow “nearly inspired” Christian. 8^D

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