Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tp0x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Carl Price) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Bible versions Message-ID: Date: 16 Jul 90 06:42:49 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 33 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu >the text. This probably falls somewhere in the middle. The original >comment was about notes with a reading plan and exegetical notes. I'm >inclined to agree that it's probably a mistake to produce a Bible with >builtin exegetical comments. You will be glad to know that's what I meant. The Interlinear AV/RV I use has substantial _translator's_ notes which are invaluable. Also I would again plug a Young's concordance for getting to understand the intended conceptual referent of various words in the original Greek and Hebrew _in_context_. >-- but simply to toss out generations of serious and devoted biblical >study smacks of both ignorance and arrogance. >scholarly study of the Scripture. But one does not want the results >of scholarship to become so pervasive that people confuse it with >Scripture itself, or that they become afraid to react to Scripture for >themselves. I take vague exception to the first quote above. I am called to be a disciple of Joshua of Nazareth, not of Scofield or any other serious and devoted bible student. A direct relationship between me and any expositor is mediation on his part between me and God -- and there can be only one mediator, Jesus Christ. Why do you think that the idea of priesthood and the hierarchy of the Catholic church, unknown to the first century Christians, is so abhorrent? (Or maybe you didn't know that it was. I should apologize for speaking like this.) The body of Christ is a nation of kings and priests. The distinction between "clergy" and "laity" -- and such monstrosities as "ordination" -- are unscriptural. TP