“According to Eugene Nida, Jacob’s struggle with the angel is being interpreted psychoanalytically or mythologically (E. Nida, Message and Mission, pp. 41-42).
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Nida agrees with the modernists who claim that Christ’s blood was not an actual offering for sin but was merely a “figure of the cost” (Nida, Theory and Practice, 1969, p. 53, n. 19).
Now at the outset , let it be known that we
all HONOR those Christians who deny themselves and embrace the hardships,
loneliness, and risk of going to live in a foreign culture to translate
the WORD of GOD for tribal people groups to bring the GOSPEL of
Salvation to them.
