A TRANSLATOR'S TESTIMONY

A Translator's Testimony



A Translator's Testimony

Introduction

The translation of Bible by J.B. Phillips, with the name of “A Translator's Testimony” has made J.B. Phillip known to the world. When he was preacher in a church in London, he analyzed that people coming in the church who are young have difficulty in understanding the Bible's version of King James that is why he started translation of Bible in modern English instead of Elizabethan English. He wrote A Translator's Testimony out of a profound concern for a lot of Christians who have straightforward faith on being worn by the prevalent broadcasting of observation of some contemporary scholars challenging the reliability and accuracy of the Testament. The initial work was started during the blitz of London in a bomb shelter. Letter to Young g Churches was published in 1947.

Discussion

In the last century, during the war, New Testament was translated by J.B. Phillips in the English of modern era. Phillip also express his understanding of translation of New Testament and outrageous imminent he achieved when working with the Greek text.

Evidence of the inspiration of the Bible are numerous and convincing. The Bible is the Word of God directly inspired. The inspiration of the Bible can be defined as a direct intervention of God in the lives of human authors of the Bible. These, without giving up their personality or their personal style of writing, have composed and transcribed without error God's revelation to men, on the documents which constitute the original manuscripts autographs. Inspiration means that the Holy Spirit of God guided the human authors in the writing of Scripture so that what they wrote was precisely what God wanted them to write.

Although there are different views in considering the extent to which the Bible is inspired, there can be no doubt that the Bible itself claims that every word in every part of the Bible is inspired of God (1 Corinthians 2:12-13, 2 Timothy 3:16-17). Often we refer to this conception of Scripture as being "verbal plenary inspiration." This means that inspiration extends to the words themselves (verbal inspiration); not only to the concepts and ideas, and that the inspiration extends to all parties and all the contents of Scripture (plenary inspiration). There are some who believe that only some parts of the Bible are inspired, or that are only inspired the thoughts and concepts related to religion, but these ...