To me what is EVERY bit as important as the technical arguments in this great debate is Dr. Pickerings commitment to a God who is every bit as concerned AND involved in PROTECTING what he had inspired to be written as He was in originally CAUSING it to be written! To allow so many subjective foundations for evaluating God’s literature – such as the TRANSLATOR’S opinion that a more “difficult” phrase is to be preferred over a less “difficult” one – is greatly inferior to a method in which you determine – on objective evidence – which are the superior family of texts and then just translate what IT says.
To me what is EVERY bit as important as the technical arguments in this great debate is Dr. Pickerings commitment to a God who is every bit as concerned AND involved in PROTECTING what he had inspired to be written as He was in originally CAUSING it to be written! To allow so many subjective foundations for evaluating God’s literature – such as the TRANSLATOR’S opinion that a more “difficult” phrase is to be preferred over a less “difficult” one – is greatly inferior to a method in which you determine – on objective evidence – which are the superior family of texts and then just translate what IT says.