Resources that Help (Part 2)

In my previous post I mentioned that there are three types of tools I use regularly that help us study the Bible faithfully. They are: 1) Resources to help us investigate Bible backgrounds 2) Resources to help us investigate Biblical languages 3) Resources that help pull all we would investigate together. In this post I will share about resources that help us investigate Biblical languages. The Bible was translated into English. The Bible was not written in English. The failure to realize the implications of the previous two statements has not only been the source of one of the modern church’s most ridiculous squabbles but it has also been the wellspring of poor preaching and teaching over the years. The original languages of the Bible are Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic; not Shakespearean English. So when we study the Bible we are not trying to get back to the meaning of the words in the KJV, we are trying to bring out the meaning of the words that appeared in the Greek