On Reading Bibles, Again

A little update on this post.

In a Bible study the other night–in Chinese by the way–a woman asked me to read a passage again in English, since I was the one with the English Bible and needed it because written Chinese is impossible difficult. And after I did, she decided to explain herself: she felt that only in the English translation could we accurately interpret what was being said; it was more direct, more concise, and the words were very clear.

I suppose good thing most everyone in Taiwan has some grasp of English.

In other words, here was this lady that went out a limb to declare to everyone, the Bible in our own language isn’t capable of giving us the full, complate 100%  picture, so let’s use another language to help fill in the blanks.

Let’s assume this is true. Is it then possible, that the Bible in English is equally incapable of transmitting certain ideas, therefore causing us to lose bits and pieces of “the big picture?” Naturally, this leads us to the next question.

What about the other hundreds of languages on this planet?