At an hour you do not expect
The story is sad more than anything else, even though the headline is “World NOT Wracked by Cataclysmic Earthquakes.” As doomsday cultists go, the believers in the May 21st Rapture and Judgment Day prediction always seemed to come across as nice people. I’ll leave out Harold Camping — the instigator of it all — because I don’t know enough to say how nice he may be, and he certainly has caused a lot of damage to some people’s material well-being with his preaching, and has likely damaged their faith as well. [Read more →]
William Tyndale was the first to translate the Bible directly from Hebrew and Greek texts into English, in the name of making Scripture available to the common folk. It was he who first looked at the Greek and rendered such ageless phrases as, “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Matthew 26); at the Hebrew and rendered, “And God said, Let there be light, and there was light” (Genesis 1). And likewise with so many other familiar and beloved phrases beyond listing. His translations of the Old and New Testaments are now estimated as forming the basis of about 80% of the later and greatly revered King James Bible. His work also formed the basis of the earlier Geneva Bible, which was the Bible in English that a fellow named William Shakespeare would have read. 
