Married to the Cloth

  There are no perfect translations. All of the translations of the Bible have been done by human scholars who were faithful and worked diligently to understand and interpret scripture. Just as no two readers ever read the same book, no translators interpret the same thing the same way. Each person brings their own bias, culture, and perception to their interpretation. “The best Bible translation is the one that you actually read “ is a true statement. Or as the NET publishers say, “ The most important translation of the Bible is not from the original languages to English, but from the printed page into your life. ”  My dad became a believer through a catholic version of 1980s “the way” Bible. Like I said previously,  the NET Bible was significant to my brother’s walk and ministry as he pastored to those whose first language was not English. He is brilliant, he speaks a wide variety of languages and dialects. But there is a lot of things we say in English that are hard to...

 I was truly blessed with a great selection of Bibles to review for Thomas Nelson. Before my brother went overseas as a chef in the Middle East, he told me about the NET translation. As a nonnative English speaker it was a version he could understand and easily translate into the numerous languages he speaks. It is a great resource for communicating eternal truths. In 1995 the NET Bible translation project began at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature as an English version for distribution over the internet. Thus the “NET” Bible’s name. It was begun back when there was no free online Bible sites, like “pre-google” for those young  people who don’t remember the dark ages before internet, or what a BBS is. Bible translations have copyrights and limit the number of verses you can publish without paying royalties. This was a revolutionary idea to get the Bible online free to anyone. Another goal they had was to keep it continually updated and to make correction...