https://jdavidstark.com/tags/amplified-bible/ Recent content in Amplified-Bible on J. David Stark https://jdavidstark.com/images/papermod-cover.png https://jdavidstark.com/images/papermod-cover.png Hugo -- 0.162.1 en J. David Stark Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:17:04 +0000 https://jdavidstark.com/reamplifying-the-amplified-bible/ Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:17:04 +0000 http://jdavidstark.com/?p=14903 <p><img src="https://cmrc1.logoscdn.com/www.logos.com/images/products/4118.jpg?663622888992" alt="Amplified Bible image" />At <a href="https://blog.logos.com/">LogosTalk</a>, Mark Ward has a helpful discussion of <a href="https://blog.logos.com/2017/03/use-not-use-amplified-bible/">“how to use—and not to use—the Amplified Bible”</a> for English-only Bible readers.  Mark comments, in part:</p> <blockquote> <p>The Amplified, when used according to its stated design, invites readers to deny this interpretive truism. It makes them think, “Ah, now I know what the Greek word here really means”—and then to Choose Their Own Adventure, picking the meaning they like most.</p> </blockquote> <p>On the other hand, Mark suggests a more helpful approach to the Amplified Bible would be to understand it as</p>