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So the Word hated here is not what we would look at in the same English context. The Hebrew Word Sane pronounced Saw Nay. The first time we see this word used is with Jacob and Leah. This means less favored. Again not the way we look at it in the...

Tyndale translation (indeed he did translate the Pentateuch) Yf a man haue two wyues, one loued and another hated, and they haue borne him children, both the loued and also the hated. As a side note, Ihave seen that a lot of newer...

👍 There are some well-grounded men who have come from Masters, but there have also been a few wackos.

Mr. MacArthur and his entire ministry is highly regarded in our household. But, he wasn’t infallible. My wife and I listened to one of his sermons once regarding Lot, Sodom and Gomorrah. When he began to list the sins of Sodom, he somehow weaved...

That is a good point. 👍 I think his comment on Deuteronomy 21:15 reflects what he felt and/or wanted to be true. I'm not a Hebrew expert, but English translations don't render it the way he suggests, Interlinear translations don't, and neither...

It just occurred to me that even the Legacy Standard Bible doesn't give the translation as he suggests. It reads, “If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, if the...

PS> And looking specifically and only at the Hebrew, note that the original 'scroll' text does NOT have vowel pointers - they were added in the Masoretic text. Much of the verb tense information is from them. "If a man has," is certainly as...

He makes an unmerited assumption, that "of course! - the first wife must be dead." That is the 'translation bias' error. Note that "has two wives" - currently - is a subset of the claim "has HAD two wives." Indeed, he has, and does.

One of my wives came across notes in a commentary on Deut. 21:15 that I've not encountered in any translation before. I can't find any support for what is written in the notes, but I'm wondering if anyone has dealt with the passage and can shed...

I tried to figure out how he could claim that it was originally rendered as " has had two wives" . I could not figure out how to torture the words into that kind of a translation. If I believed in MO, I would then like to believe that Moses...

Fall on your knees and praise God that he has blessed you with insight that even a giant like John MacArthur failed to perceive. God is good.

Pan-baptist.... it'll all pan out in the end.

Christian, disciple, follower. All good terms. But, the modifiers do help to explain your perspectives without having to delve too deeply into them and one by one. It shortens the “get to know you” period. But then, you end up having to...

When I went to the PK Men's March in Washington back in the day (anyone remember that?), we had a very small group from our church going, so we hitched a ride with the Baptists on their bus. I remember hearing them say, "I am a Christian first...

I’m not the council of Jerusalem police. Just like Paul says that I don’t have to verify if meat was offered at an altar, only to reject it if I find out that it was; I feel no compunction to challenge everyone I meet on their adherence to Acts...