Opus 2024-354: Click bait: Suckered Again

I was caught by the headline that gave any indication that Douglas Murray was going to share something about the problem at the heart of Islam.  Douglas Murray has good insights.  I’ve read a couple of his books.  I thought it was worth a try.

The podcaster started off with some comments which didn’t take too long and then he went to a clip with Douglas Murray speaking.  What Murray had to say was well put and worth hearing, but we were only a third of the way through the video when the host came back on and started giving his opinions.  At that point, I paused and went on with life.

I noticed that there is a parallel here between podcasters who want to go viral thinking that they can expressed the thoughts of good thinkers better than the good thinkers and some Bible translators and Bible teachers.  We have Bibles translated with what is called dynamic equivalence.  They take the literal Hebrew and Greek and then try to find modern parallels of thinking that they can express it in.  In my opinion, they seem to know what God wants to say better than God did.

If you have a clip for your podcast from a deep thinker, don’t try to go deeper than the thinker.  I’m sure that your opinions are valuable.  But they aren’t valuable to me.  If you are a Bible translator don’t try to go deeper than God’s original word to tell me what He would’ve said if He had  been around today.  God is outside time.  He knows how we think today.  He gave it to us in a form that would last through the ages.

I don’t think you can improve on that.

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