Should pastors be required to know original Biblical languages?

Seems that is the example you were using them for.

 

Pastors should be teachers of God's word. Trainging believers in the word. And all that may entail.

 

Many pastors dont seem to know the difference between teacher and Seminary professor.

 

Yes. But merely doing just that, one can be on the wrong side of the fence, regarding the actual words from God.

 

PROVE WITH VERSES.

 

The Bible gives qualifications for pastors. Your idea is not in God's list.

 

You have a disconnect in understanding plain English. You need to start at the ground level, and that would be the NIrV.

 

Cite your sources. Oops, that's an impossibility for you. Anyway, I don't believe that students of the past at Yale or Harvard were required to teach Latin and Greek.

 

What? No Aramaic?

 

I know a ton of pastors who do not need to be pastoring and are so totally inept theologically that they have nothing to teach anyone

 

When Harvard started you had to know them

 

There were good reasons why to take Greek and Hebrew in seminary, one of which is to "thoroughly equip" the pastor to be able to combat outsiders or even those inside the church (as I have experienced!) who might claim certain false doctrines based on a supposed "exegesis" of the original languages.

Case in point: the JW's misinterpretation of Jn 1:1 and how to refute their claim that no definite article in the final clause makes Jesus only "a god". How does the unequipped pastor really reply to such in a convincing manner?

 

The current NIV has been published for nine years. Your pastor could not possibly be unaware of its inclusive language. I doubt it caught him by surprise. If so, he isn't as educated as you claim. Is it, or is it not, his primary translation in the pulpit? Another question, does your church have a pew Bible? If so, what is it?

 

You're not following along. I told Y-1 that students back then of those two institutions were not required to teach those two languages. He made the claim and I asked for proof.

 

All copies of documents come from originals. So are you arguing 0% of God's orginal words is left? You seem to think it makes no difference if any of it was changed.

 

Oh, really?