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Archive for March, 2010
Lessons Learned in Sunday School
When it comes to teaching children about the Christian faith, parents have a great opportunity if their church offers Sunday school. Sunday school provides an opportunity for children to learn about God’s teachings in a stress free environment with their peers. In addition, Sunday school lessons will often focus on the basics of the Christian faith, allowing children to understand Christianity before more formal bible study as a teenager or adult. It’s also important for children to learn that learning about Christianity can be fun, because this will foster future interest in faith.
Some of the most valuable life lessons can be learned in Sunday school. Even just one or two lines from the Septuagint bible like “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” can be amongst the most meaningful and powerful. When children learn these lessons early in life, they will have a much brighter future!
The New International Version
When Evangelical Protestants received the Revised Standard Version, certain texts regarding the virginity of Mary and other Old Testament passages whose Christian interpretation referred to Jesus did not follow traditional Evangelical translation. The New International Version project was started after a meeting in 1965 in Palos Heights, Illinois between the Christian Reformed Church, National Association of Evangelicals, and a group of international scholars. The New York Bible Society (now the Colorado Springs-based International Bible Society) was selected to do the translation. The New Testament was released in 1973 and the full Bible in 1978. It underwent minor revision in 1984.
The NIV Bible is an explicitly Protestant translation. The deuterocanonical books are not included in the translation. It preserved traditional Evangelical theology on many contested points for which the Revised Standard Version has been criticized. Apart from these theological issues, the manuscript base of the NIV is similar to the RSV, using older Greek New Testament texts rather than the later Textus Receptus.