Lost in Translation

This is to me most fascinating: “Translation is the interpreting of the meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an equivalent text, likewise called a "translation," that communicates the same message in another language. The text to be translated is called the "source text," and the language that it is to be translated into is called the "target language"; the final product is sometimes called the "target text."
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Although the word ‘translation’ may not be used in the Scriptures, the word ‘translated’ is. (Colossians 1:13)
It seems though there are numerous translations of the Bible-Scriptures, it remains at best a very fuzzy, fogged up picture to those who can’t read or can’t read our lives. Where is He, this God you profess?

Is it possible that in being translated out of darkness and into Him who is light-love, our forward progression, continued transformation is only happening in do proportion to our letting go of who we still think we are? A mere sinner saved by grace!
How was the Word himself lost in becoming flesh and blood, the fulfillment of the Torah/Scriptures, standing right before those learned men who knew the Torah forward and back again?
How was the life of the Father integrated into those who could not read or did not have access to the Torah and having it broken down in bite size pieces? But it was, wasn’t it.

Maybe the Father was saying, listen to my Son, not Moses or Elijah or anyone else, he is my living translation of who I AM! “in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.”

What did the Father mean in what he said through our brother Paul? Take a look.
I’m not sure where I read this but its stuck in my mind, that He has made us to be ‘living bill-boards’ easily read of all men.

This is fantastic from Robertson’s Word Pictures of the New Testament: “First aorist middle indicative of ruomai, old verb, to rescue. This appositional relative clause further describes God the Father's redemptive work and marks the transition to the wonderful picture of the person and work of Christ in nature and grace in verses 14-20, a full and final answer to the Gnostic depreciation of Jesus Christ by speculative philosophy and to all modern efforts after a "reduced" picture of Christ.”
I long with my whole being to Be a living picture of Christ read of all men having nothing lost in the translation. How about you?

Rich

Losing My Religion

I apologize for the small print in this cartoon, so here is a link to it.

After reading the following article, it greatly helped in moving me forward today with some thoughts I started off with.

Truth, is it some kind of encrypted hieroglyphic codification still waiting for some higher form of being, intelligence, maybe even celestial personality that will be able to crack the code for us?

I wonder if the best and most correct answer, the best translation and interpretation of the bible and all that it contains (was accomplished) is what God the Father did in sending His son, 'The Word becoming flesh and dwelling amongst us'.
And just maybe the best translation (transformational work) of that reality is not simply to be re-birthed as glorious as that is, but to have Christ FULLY formed within us, to BE as it were Christ (Love-Life) to our world where ever we might live?

Maybe even with the best and sharpest minds of the time back 2000 years ago, those claiming to know the Torah forwards and backwards, were by and large incapable of somehow recognizing the Word who had been made flesh right before them and living amongst them?

From my perspective, none of us know what true love is; yes we all talk about and long to be loved, why? Because the best we know and call love to be is a performance based acceptance. In my opinion everything we see, feel, do, flows out from that innate imprinting that I will only be loved and accepted if I do what is right and good. Sounds pretty fearful at best to me, but then again apart from the Truth of His love, what would one really expect?
How can I not inflict this upon my fellow man when at our core that’s what we believe about ourselves?

How is it ever going to be possible to love my neighbor as myself, if the only working definition of love I’ve ever known is rooted in trying harder, performing, trying to measure up?

Getting back to having the correct-right answers, the best translation-interpretation issue, maybe it all boils down to KNOWING the total unconditional loving acceptance of God the Father first and foremost, and in growing in that reality, we are going to be able to experience Him being FULLY formed in me a whole lot easier don't you think?

As the Word became flesh, is that same Word now being fleshed out in us, the flesh and blood people who use religion even the religion of Christianity to talk about what is right and wrong, but never even coming close to displaying openly that what He came primarily for was that we might have life and it in abundance?

Isn't it sad how we all at best have 'interpreted' life to be synonymous with religion, when in fact the Word that became flesh and pitched his tent here with us as a man, was in fact born into a world ruled by nothing but religion?

The heart beat of all religion has its roots in a performance based approval-acceptance, no matter the flavor or packaging it might come in. Judaism was simply imo one of the religions of the time.
His love-life was going to become available to whomsoever, based upon what the Father alone did perfectly through a man, the son of man, the Man-Christ Jesus, and that perfect work would be the basis of perfectly loving and accepting us with no performances needed or required on our behalf to have His approval.

Apart from truly experiencing an ever growing increasing knowing of the Father's love for us, how will we not be caught up in just another expression of religion that has nothing to do whatsoever with LIFE!

Rich