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Jerry Hwang – Contextualization and the Old Testament

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The Same God Question Versus the Terms Question

The next chapter, I do try to address what has been traditionally known as the term question. What do we call God? When Christian faith in the Jewish Christian Bible will arrive in a new culture, one of the challenges that every missionary or translator will face is what to call the deity. The words in European languages like God or French, Fredduh and other languages, these words are not intrinsically sacred. They were taken over from other cultures.

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