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James Poole retweeted
Pointed out to my 13-year-old today that a Joseph, son of Jacob brings his family to Egypt for survival in the Old Testament, and a Joseph, son of Jacob brings his family to Egypt for survival in the New Testament. Her open-mouthed expression was a priceless parenting win.
James Poole retweeted
How does God feel toward His children when they sin?
1. His posture toward them does not change.
2. He feels fatherly compassion, not disgust.
3. He is grieved because sin wounds His beloved, not because His patience is drained.
4. He moves toward sinners, not away.
5. He disciplines, but never to destroy, only to restore.
6. His love remains as full on your worst day as on your best.
In persecuted contexts, church leaders say their people need the Bible in the language they cry in
"Bible translation is not about producing books on shelves. It is about unlocking eternal hope. It is about giving people the opportunity to hear God speak to them in the language they dream in, laugh in, and cry in."
What a stunning, striking quote from @1JamesPoole @wycliffeuk
If you haven't seen this, it's worth reading. In the last year, Bibles have been translated for almost 200 million people – equivalent to the population of Western Europe! 👇
📖Wycliffe Bible Translators' 'State of the Bible' report celebrates a year of remarkable progress in Bible translation.
"The vision of a world where everyone can know Jesus through the Bible is no longer a distant dream, but a rapidly approaching reality." @wycliffeuk 🙌✝️ e-n.org.uk/world-news/2025-1…
The biggest obstacle to world mission is being dismantled faster than ever:
“the number of Christians and churches has grown hugely because people can understand the word of God”
James Poole retweeted
It is with some personal surprise that, after 30 years as an atheist, I’ve come to say:
I believe in one God,
the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.
I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.
…
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son
Your reminder that Jesus was multilingual, and would have switched languages depending on the context 👇
This is all over the place in Matthew. I personally am convinced that Matthew recorded many verbatim teachings of Jesus that he originally spoke in Greek and reveal Jesus’s wit in said language.
Just look at the alliteration in the opening or the sermon on the mount:
”Blessed are the poor (πτωχοὶ);”
”…those who mourn (πενθοῦντες);”
”…the meek (πραεῖς);”
”…those who hunger (πεινῶντες).”
Matthew 5:6: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.” Thirst is “διψῶντες” and righteousness is “δικαιοσύνην.”
Matthew 5:8: “Blessed are the pure in heart.” “Pure” is “καθαροὶ,” “heart” is the “καρδίᾳ,” both kappa alpha (κα) repeats.
The beatitudes have eight initial terms, of which the third declension plurals are all grouped in beatitudes two to five. Beatitudes two and four to seven end with the rhyming sound “ontai,” which ends a verb. The final position of these verbs isn’t grammatically obligatory and appears to be purposeful .
Matthew 4:25 states that “Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him.” Broad Galilean Aramaic would not have helped the folks from the notoriously Greek Decapolis. It is far more likely that those from “Jerusalem, Judea…. and the region across the Jordan” would have spoken Greek as opposed to those from the Decapolis speaking Aramaic / Hebrew. Jesus then appeals to the broader audience and, I believe, preached the sermon in Greek.
@DrPJWilliams and Stanley Porter both have some good further content on this if you’re curious.
James Poole retweeted
"Now, splendidly, everything had become clear. The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off. It was the Modern Age in arms."
After this week I feel like Evelyn Waugh at the time of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939. The politics of 'progress' has found its fulfilment in the union of two total malignancies: the campaigns to abort babies at full term and to kill old people before their time. Here is our enemy, all disguise cast off. 1/7
James Poole retweeted
How should the church respond to today's vote? This quote helps:
“I say in a hundred years, if Christians are known as a strange group of people who don’t kill their children and don’t kill the elderly, we will have done a great thing.”
Stanley Hauerwas
James Poole retweeted
The 9th Commandment (do not make false testimony) is widely misunderstood. Many people believe it forbids lying. I think that's clearly wrong. Not because I say lying is sometimes OK - Kant & others offer interesting arguments against ever lying. But that's not what the 9th is.
James Poole retweeted
✝️‘He is not here; he has risen!’ – Luke 24:6
This Easter, the Bakweri people in Cameroon are reading the New Testament in their own language for the first time.
That’s resurrection hope — freshly unlocked.🔓
#HappyEaster #BibleTranslation
I’ve been using the internet since 1991, yet somehow never knew this
Flying saucers, invented by communion wafer manufacturers and containing a product brought back from the Crusades (sherbet), are surely the most intensely Tradcath sweets in existence #DeusVult
Season 1 was brilliant, so this is what I'll be listening to 👇
SEASON 2 of The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God podcast begins TODAY! 🥳
And we're kicking off with a big question... is the rebirth RIGHT WING?
A 'vibe shift' is underway. Trump's re-election and the gains of populist parties internationally have reinvigorated the right wing. So is the 'surprising rebirth' in religious circles just the manifestation of the new political vibe? I respond to a key objection to my thesis (first posed by @CosmicSkeptic) as I examine the rise of popular right wing politics in secular and religious circles.
Journalist @HeatherTomli explains her own spiritual and political conversion. Academic researcher @DrChrisWatkin argues that the Bible transcends politics. And Carolyn Morris-Collier tells of a rebirth among Oxford students that may yet be co-opted by a political agenda. Many more thinkers and influencers contribute in the first of a special two part show on whether the rebirth is right wing!
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James Poole retweeted
Let no man think himself to be holy because he is not tempted, for the holiest and highest in life have the most temptations. How much higher the hill, so much is the wind greater; so how much higher the life is, so much the stronger is the temptation of the enemy.
John Wycliffe
A very thoughtful – and tremendously helpful – insight into the most popular Christian books today
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This doesn't work at all. How were the translations rated? And who decided that optimal is along the diagonal?
CSV is more similar to NIV than to ESV than this shows.
ESV is more readable than NASB.
NLT is much readable for the average person
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‘Optimal’ depends very much upon the reader and their purpose in reading.
Children's Bibles can be optimal in some situations (eg in crèche)!
Hmm... realised this post would have been more optimally readable with correct grammar
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