Weakness in Greek and Hebrew also gives rise to exegetical imprecision and carelessness. And exegetical imprecision is the mother of liberal theology.
Where pastors by and large can no longer articulate and defend doctrine by a reasonable and careful appeal to the original meaning of biblical texts, they will tend to become close-minded traditionalists who clutch their inherited ideas, or open-ended relativists who don't put much stock in doctrinal formulations. In both cases the succeeding generations will be theologically impoverished and susceptible to error.
Further, when we fail to stress the use of Greek and Hebrew as crucial in the pastoral office we create an eldership of professional academicians. We surrender to the seminaries and universities essential dimensions of our responsibility as elders and overseers of the churches.
- John Piper
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I know that there is an abundance of error out there. I ate lunch with a local artist who told me that he liked first-century Christianity, but didn't care much for modern Christianity. His art was an expression of his "faith," which was influenced by some of the eastern religions. I asked him if he believed that Jesus died on the cross for his sin, and he said, "absolutely not!" He believed that Christ died somewhere in the south of France, and Jesus was married with two children. (This was before the movie, "The DaVinci Code" came out too. He said that you have to go to the original Aramaic version to read this. My pastor told me there is no Aramaic text, even though that is the language Jesus spoke. Go with the Greek, young man. It is sad that so many are decieved to believe a lie. As some pastors say, "That's a lie from hell, and its got smoke all over it."
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