While taking a break from finishing tonight’s message for Twivotion, I was catching up on some websites I follow. I found something I thought worth sharing since it really is about turning dead words into something active, and well, that’s what this site is all about, right?

I’ve been a long-time fan of Operation 513’s blog, a contemporary apologetic approach to issues today’s Christians face. A post from today (or tomorrow in their opinion since they are in Australia) caught my attention. Have you been ever been questioned by skeptics

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Communication is an amazing thing regardless of the perspective you look at it from. From the beginning of time, God has been communicating, be it with angels, demons, the Creation, and mankind. The Bible clearly shows that God is communication (John 1:1), and “the ability to express oneself remains God’s gift to humanity.”

I see two questions which beg to be answered.

1. Are we, as humans, meant to be communicators?
2. If we are, is it important how we go about it?

Interesting triad of words, huh? Microsoft Word’s spell check thinks so. As does the spell check built into Firefox and Google Chrome (what? You think I’d use Internet Explorer?). While there may not be a single spell check known to the common man that would recognize that triad up there, still I chose to use it as the title to this blog. And in case you were wondering, yes, they are real words…technically…just not in the English language.

So what is Acta, non Verba? In its simplest form,

Since this website will have plenty of Biblical references in it, it makes sense to take a second to discuss Bible translations, and which ones I prefer to use. This is not meant to be the definitive authority on the subject of translating the Bible from its original languages, it is intended to give you, the reader, a little insight into the what’s and why’s I use specific translations of the Bible when studying and teaching.

Bible translations basically (remember: the operative word is basically, this is not a Biblical studies class!) come in three flavors: Formal Equivalence (word-for-word), Dynamic Equivalence (thought-by-though) and