[reaganaut]

//My goal is to encourage people to let the Bible interpret itself. I//

The two are not mutually exclusive, but if you think of the bible as being only in English with an English understanding, your interpretation can be and often in flawed.

Again, is it necessary, not entirely but it helps a great deal. This is not arrogance but simple fact. There is a reason that seminaries require it.

[LearsFool]

if you think of the bible as being only in English with an English understanding, your interpretation can be and often in flawed.

Are you familiar with UBS's handbooks for translators? I've been appalled at some of their translation recommendations. But thinking through some of the more egregious ones recently made me realize that even such errors as they suggest cannot defeat the correctives of the Scriptures.

Ya just can't beat God. :-)