How Your Bible May Be Ruining the Gospel

My wife is a good cook. She does a Danish roast with crackling pork and all the trimmings that is second-to-none. In fact, she is preparing a sumptuous roast dinner as I write. I’m practically drooling on the keyboard. Knowing that my wife is a good cook, which of these two sentences do you prefer? 1. Camilla can prepare a great meal for you. 2. Camilla will prepare a great meal for you. One word is the only difference between these two sentences, but it is a huge difference. Camilla can or Camilla will. The word can speaks of Camilla’s abilities. She can cook. So what, you say. What good is that to me? But the word will speaks to a promise. She will cook for me? Wonderful! When do we eat? Can or will Can is potential, but will is promise. This matters because of something Jesus said in Mark 3:28. See if you can spot the difference: Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins. (Mark 3:28, NIV) Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man (Mark 3:28, ESV) One Bible says your sins can be forgiven, the other [...]Image may be NSFW.
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