Great podcast, guys – can’t wait to hear more!

This question bothered me a LOT as a pre-teen sporadically attending church with my grandmother. All the transcriptions through history, and the many translations of the Bible upset me – if this was the exact, transcribed word of God, then what does it become if even a single word is changed by mistake or translation? As a word-focused kind of person, the difference between “set you free” and “make you free” in two different translations made me crazy! Those are two different concepts – which at that time was super huge to me. The church preaching absolute, no mistakes, divine word was actually a hindrance to my belief, which I was surely struggling with. I wanted to believe, in my heart I believed, but my mind was doubtful.

Coming to true faith as an adult I feel a lot differently. There are still the questions of the child in me, but these questions don’t bother me in the all-encompassing way they once did. I have faith that the Bible will tell me what God wants me to know, and that is enough for me. I don’t believe it’s the only way God speaks to me. I also view the Bible as rather fluid and malleable in a way – God will use a single verse to tell me what I need to hear and someone else what they need to hear – and those messages may be completely different to each of us. And it might teach me something else the next time I read it. It’s a pretty cool book.