Which translation do I choose?

In an age when there is a wide choice of English Bible translations, the issues involved in Bible translating are steadily gaining interest. Consumers often wonder what separates one Bible version from another.

The contributors to this book argue that there are significant differences between literal translations and the alternatives. The task of those who employ an essentially literal Bible translation philosophy is to produce a translation that remains faithful to the original languages, preserving as much of the original form...

With a strong emphasis on the scriptural basis for each doctrine--what the whole Bible teaches us today about a particular topic; clear writing, with technical terms kept to a minimum; and a contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of the Bible is required reading for understanding the relevant passages of Scripture. Topics include Canon of Scripture: the list of all books that belong in the Bible; Authority of Scripture: all words in Scripture are God's words because that is what the Bible claims for...

With clear writing--technical terms kept to a minimum--and a contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of Salvation explores God's common grace to redeem those who will be saved, and to demonstrate his goodness, mercy, justice, and glory. Topics include but are not limited to the order of salvation--from God's choice of people to be saved to the chosen people receiving a resurrection body; effective calling--the act of God the father speaking through the human proclamation of the gospel to summons people to...

With clear writing and a contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of the Church explores the community of all true believers for all time--the church. Topics include but are not limited to the invisible church--the church as God sees it; the visible church--the church as Christians on earth see it; the purity of church--the degree of freedom from wrong doctrine and conduct; the primary purpose of the church--ministry to God, believers, and the world; the power of the church--its God-given authority to...

With clear writing and a contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of the Future explores the fulfillment of Scripture--the bodily return of Christ. Topics include but are not limited to the primary views of the Millennium (thousand years): Amillennialism--the reign of Christ is now being fulfilled; Postamillennialism--Christ will return after the millennium; Premillennialism--Christ will come back after the millennium. Whichever view the reader subscribes to, the end result is clear: there will be a...

With clear writing--technical terms kept to a minimum--and a contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of Who God is explores the existence of God through inner knowledge and evidence found in Scripture and in nature. Topics include but are not limited to Traditional "Proofs" for God's Existence: covering cosmological, teleological, ontological, and moral evidence of the Creator; The Trinity: the three distinct persons each equal to the whole being of God; Creation: including the assertion that, when all...

With clear writing--technical terms kept to a minimum--and a contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of Man and Sin explores how mankind is distorted, but not lost, through sin and is renewed through redemption in Christ. Topics include but are not limited to the creation of male and female, including harmonious personal relationships, equality in personhood and importance, and difference in role and authority; equality and differences in the Trinity; the essential nature of man; and our inherited guilt...

With clear writing--technical terms kept to a minimum--and a contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of Christ and the Spirit explores Jesus Christ as fully God and fully man in one person. Topics include The Person of Christ: including the virgin birth--uniting full deity and humanity in one person while enabling Christ's humanity to be without inherited sin--and the incarnation--the act of God the Son whereby he took himself a human nature; The Doctrine of the Atonement: the work Christ did in his life...