Biblical instructions for translation?

Sir: You speak as if your God is dead!Wouldn't a living God revise the damned thing himself?This silly conflict makes 'His people' look like quarrelsome idiots.P.S. Do you really believe we are saved through faith in the Bible?db

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Adult Sunday School

Excellent point. I like your suggestion re: a translation guide but why not go all the way with it? Why not simply stay in touch with his people and give timely advice, to every culture and language, in wartime and peacetime, until everyone sees the wisdom of his words? They aren't his words in the Bible, are they now? They are John's words and David's words, etc. Once translated - they are someone else's words again, and eventually your words and mine.The only solution I see for this self imposed (by believers) dilemma is for the deity to stay in touch. After all, how difficult could it be for him to make a simple phone call or send us an email?db

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Adult Sunday School

It might, if the channel were clear and the messages unequivocal. But prayer is one of those 'slippery' things which is difficult to practice and even more difficult to describe.And there's the dilemma pointed out by a Greek philosopher who said something to the effect that: If the gods truly answered mens prayers then mankind would soon cease to exist, for men are always praying that some sort of evil might befall their enemies.Indeed, the deity's failure to communicate clearly and effectively is one of the greatest 'evidences' in favor of his absence.db