And the consequences of that simple truth can be far-reaching.
Like the chapter breaks and verse numbers, which sometimes lead us to draw conclusions that were never intended. Or punctuation - the translators have done a wonderful job, but sometimes their decisions take us in one direction when the writer may have meant something else.
Neil Rees looks at these and many other later additions and embellishments to the sacred text, not least the process of translation itself, and detects a key shortfall in our understanding of God's word today: Are we missing the mission heart of God?
Contents:
1. Not Everything in Our Bibles Is Inspired by God
2. 'Chapter One'
3. 'And I Looked for a Man Among Them'
4. Did You Know...
5. A Fine Little Number - What Verses Have to Do with Women
6. The Most Surprising Verse in the Bible
7. The Parable of the Soils
8. 'The Woman You Put Here with Me'
9. 'Do You Truly Love Me More than These?'
10. First Hezekiah, Chapter 4
11. And Did You Also Know...
12. Do You Understand What You Are Reading?
13. Are We in Concordance?
14. Something Old, Something New
15. 'Let Us Eat and Drink, for Tomorrow We Die'
16. No Comment
17. 'And Finally, Brethren'
ISBN: 9781842912935
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: KINGSWAY - published 09/02/2007
Format: Paperback