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My molasses-paced photo-digitizing project really should be completed by now; I am digitizing our old family photos so as not to be burdened with boxes of prints. I think I started nearly two years ago, but alas it\u2019s still not done. I have hit pause on this project more times than I can count.<\/p>\n
I am not the only person with unfinished projects.<\/p>\n
Gaby, a native Wolof speaker in Senegal, let us know that he has only the New Testament in his language. I can\u2019t imagine waiting that long to have God\u2019s Word in my hands. In 1988, the Wolof were presented with the New Testament, which was probably a glorious day\u2026but it took 115 years to get it. And let\u2019s not forget, they don\u2019t have any of the Old Testament. How could that be? Gaby explained\u2026<\/p>\n “The Bible we have is too ‘pure’ for us to understand.” Language changes. As time passes, the language you started with doesn\u2019t match the language being used by the speaker. Think Shakespeare, a great literary work but not easily read by most people. I guess that\u2019s a danger of taking 115 years to complete a project. Isn\u2019t that agonizing? All that arduous work invested by translators, but because of how long it took, not even the portions completed speak to the heart of the reader any longer.<\/p>\n Happily dancing on the table. *2,251 people groups\u2026 or 193,000,000 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My molasses-paced photo-digitizing project really should be completed by now; I am digitizing our old family photos so as not to be burdened with boxes of prints. I think I started nearly two years ago, but alas it\u2019s still not done. I have hit pause on this project more times than I can count. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dan-falls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dan-falls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dan-falls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dan-falls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dan-falls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dan-falls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dan-falls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dan-falls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dan-falls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhat?!?
\nThere are 10 million Wolof speakers<\/strong>, how could they not have a complete Bible in their language?
\nSad Fact: This project was started 146 years ago<\/strong>. (In 1873)<\/p>\n
\nAs an elder in his church, Gaby lamented over the fact that many young people in his church don\u2019t actually read their Bible.<\/p>\n
\nHuh? (Is that confusing?)
\nThat is a sentence fragment, it leaves you wondering \u2018who is dancing on the table?\u2019 or \u2018what does that have to do with anything?\u2019 All you know is that someone, somewhere is dancing on the table, but you have no idea why.
\nHaving the New Testament without the foundation of the Old Testament leaves you with a book of answers to questions never asked.\u00a0 The Wolof must have so many un-questioned answers\u2026if only there was the Old Testament.
\nSo English speakers, you have over 500 versions of the Bible available to you. Beyond being thankful, let it serve as a reminder to pray for those who don\u2019t have one word of it available to them*, or versions that are incomplete at best. Surely there must be something we can do about this.<\/p>\n