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Originally Posted by Leslie  Please show me where my logic is wrong. If translations and paraphrases are not inspired/infallible, then it follows that paraphrases of translations are also not inspired/infallible. The psalms that are sung in English are paraphrases (to correlate with the musical beat) of English translations. Therefore they are not inspired/infallible. So people who insist on singing only "inspired" songs, either EP or scripture-only, seem to be making a false distinction. Neither what they sing nor "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" is inspired/infallible--or am I missing something? |
You seem to be leaving out of view the fact that the original autographs are described as being
immediately inspired by God. When the sense of the original is accurately translated into another language it retains its quality as the inspired Word of God, or what may be called
mediate inspiration. Hence, in Heb. 3:7ff, we read that the Holy Ghost says the words of Ps 95 in Greek (or English in our version), which was originally written in Hebrew. The fact has not been altered that this is the inspired word of God even though it has been translated into another language.