Opening Question

What are some of the challenges in translating the Greek and Hebrew texts of the Bible into English, and other modern languages around the world?

Introduction

Although Adventists do not hold to verbal inspiration, this does not mean the words chosen by the Bible writers were not important. We might think that words always “mean what they mean,” but this is not the case. Individual words only have meaning in a given context. For instance, in sarcasm, the words usually indicate the exact opposite of what they mean (“I can’t wait to have a root canal!”). In symbolism, the word ...