Jefferson Vann talks about the meaning of the phrase “eternal judgment” as it appears in Hebrews 6:2.
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In “the best Christmas gift” Jefferson Vann shares some thoughts about the gift of Jesus Christ, based on his translation of Hebrews 1:1-4.
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In "Some thoughts on interpreting the epistles" Jefferson Vann warns Advent Christians about the danger of obsessing over the details in the New Testament epistles.
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In “why I am not pro-choice” Jefferson Vann explains why his conditionalist faith rejects the pro-choice position on abortion.
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For this month's ACV post, Jefferson Vann shares his recent Labor Day sermon, which (he was told) had a really good message.
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Jefferson Vann describes his Summer vacation of 2021, and notes some refreshing and encouraging conversations he had with Dr. John Roller while they dined together at Lakeside Advent Christian Campground.
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In “Daniel’s BAR ENASH in the New Testament” Jefferson Vann explains how the vision recorded in Daniel 7:13-14 is alluded to over 80 times in the New Testament.
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In “εὐαγγέλιον in Matthew” Jefferson Vann investigates how Matthew uses the word we usually translate “gospel.” In his translation, Jeff substitutes the word “excellent message” for εὐαγγέλιον. Jeff explains why Matthew thought the message was so excellent.
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In “The name” Jefferson Vann explains his reasoning behind how he treats the tetragrammaton – the four letter name of God (יהוה) in the Hebrew Bible.
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Jefferson Vann suggests a better translation for the phrase “cloud of witnesses” in Hebrews 12:1. He examines the word in the Greek text, along with several other related Greek words. He offers preferred glosses for all those words.
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Jefferson Vann shares the current introduction to his next book, a new translation and commentary on Matthew’s Gospel entitled “The kingdom from the sky.”
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Jefferson Vann shares the story behind his translation of 1 Corinthians 11:10, and argues that it does not teach that males have authority over females.
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In “the breath of God” Jefferson Vann examines how Moses used the Hebrew word that is most often mistranslated as “spirit” in the Old Testament, and how Matthew uses its Greek equivalent in the New Testament.
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Both heaven and sky are possible meanings of shamayim/ ouranos. But I am convinced that most English versions overuse the gloss “heaven” and rarely use the more basic gloss “sky.” The result is that some of the original intended meaning of certain texts is obscured.
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Jefferson Vann is working on a Bible translation project. But what would really help is having some other eyes to look at his work, ask questions, and give advice. That is where you come in. If you decide to bless him by reading this blog, would you consider being even more of a blessing by becoming a member of his informal translation committee?
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Pastor Corey McLaughlin recently wrote an article which suggested that angels and demons are exceptions to Paul’s statement in 1 Timothy 6:16 that God alone is immortal.1 Much of his argument was particularly focussed on Revelation 20:10. McLaughlin argued that if Satan, the Beast and the False Prophet will be tormented “forever and ever” then at least they must have immortality.
I know, you have been told that human souls are immortal: they can never die. You have been told “you have an immortal soul and are capable of living in immortal glory.”[1] But what if the Bible spoke of souls as dying, and referred to the dead as dead souls. Would that make a difference.? Would you have to re-examine your theology of the soul? I hope you would.
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In a recent Advent Christian Voices article, Corey McLaughlin examines conditionalists’ treatment of Revelation 20:7-10 and concludes that our exegesis of that text has been “poor”, and based on “logic stretched thin.” He suggests that our problem is that we are trying to make Revelation 20 say that the lake of fire will come to an end, but that the text insists that it will not. To accurately reflect what is taught in Revelation 20:10, conditionalism will need to be modified to allow for the eternal conscious torment of the devil and his demonic agents.
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