{"id":1697,"date":"2012-03-08T21:27:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T03:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2012-03-08T21:27:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T03:27:03","slug":"march-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/08\/march-8\/","title":{"rendered":"March 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After once telling us in chapel to mail our NIVs back to the publisher, John MacArthur has agreed to an <a href=\"http:\/\/teampyro.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/macarthur-study-bible-niv.html\">NIV version of the MacArthur Study Bible<\/a>. It&#8217;s absolutely not about the millions of dollars to be made, but it&#8217;s about having study notes to help those reading an inferior translation. Sigh :-). But maybe now I &#8216;ll get my kids one :-). Except it&#8217;s the NIV2011, so scratch that.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/betterbibles.com\/2012\/03\/07\/when-summarizing-is-too-hard\/\">this statement<\/a>: &#8220;Many of our English translations make it easy to do word studies; and painfully difficult to grasp the meaning of a paragraph.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/sexual-sin-in-the-ministry\">Sexual Sin in the Ministry<\/a> \u2013 I couldn&#8217;t believe what I read about the statistics on this. They can&#8217;t be true, though even if they are half, we are in big trouble.<\/p>\n<p>I am guessing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1433529998\/713713713-20\">this<\/a> will be a very good (short) introduction to the Bible&#8217;s origin, reliability, and interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>This infographic explains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bizweekdesign\/6477561675\/sizes\/l\/in\/photostream\/\">how spam works\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After once telling us in chapel to mail our NIVs back to the publisher, John MacArthur has agreed to an NIV version of the MacArthur Study Bible. It&#8217;s absolutely not about the millions of dollars to be made, but it&#8217;s about having study notes to help those reading an inferior translation. Sigh :-). But maybe\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/08\/march-8\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}