Comments on: A Bible for those who cannot hear /blog/index.php/2010/05/20/a-bible-for-those-who-cannot-hear/ News and happenings from around Gospel.com Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:17:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 By: Paulette /blog/index.php/2010/05/20/a-bible-for-those-who-cannot-hear/comment-page-1/#comment-44326 Sun, 23 May 2010 21:09:08 +0000 /blog/?p=4722#comment-44326 From your comments on the article about Wycliffe translating the Bible into various sign languages:
“I had ignorantly assumed that the deaf would be able to read…”
Do you know anyone who is deaf or hard of hearing? How does the lack of a complete sign language Bible affect them?
This question also shows ingnorance about the hard of hearing. Most hard of hearing do NOT use sign language! It is wonderful that Wycliffe is doing this work for the deaf. Now can you do an article about why churches should provide assistive listening devices so that the hard of hearing (most of whom wear hearing aids and communicate orally) could better understand sermons, Sunday School classes, and Bible studies?
Thanks.

]]> By: Russell Rentler, M.D. /blog/index.php/2010/05/20/a-bible-for-those-who-cannot-hear/comment-page-1/#comment-44197 Fri, 21 May 2010 23:55:35 +0000 /blog/?p=4722#comment-44197 Do you know anyone who is deaf or hard of hearing? How does the lack of a complete sign language Bible affect them?

An even better question is “How does illiteracy, (even among the non-deaf)affect people? IF the Bible is the sole source for truth but many people can’t read how do they come to the truth?
Jesus gave us a Church, and the word Church is mentioned over 100 times in the Bible. But strangely, enough, he never said, “I will give you a Bible and will build my Church based on your ability to gain access to one, and then once have access, be able to read it, and once able to read it, be able to understand it.”
That’s an awful lot of propositions to consider for the sola scriptura theory. In the 1890’s Harvard medical school did not require literacy as a requirement for admission. So clearly illiteracy was pretty common in this “developed” country. How could all those folks get saved if they didn’t have the ability to read the bible? Jesus never required literacy to be saved but instead He told us He would lead us in all truth through His Holy Spirit’s operation in the Church, which is the pillar and foundation of Truth, as Scripture says.

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