Perspicuity Puns

Online on Twitter, there are currently some fiery 'conversations' between egalitarian and complementarian theologians, pastors, writers and bloggers. The debate on what women can or can't do is spilling over into a debate about inerrancy, as some complementarians accuse egalitarians of ignoring the authority of Scripture which, in their opinion, undoubtedly and clearly aligns with their beliefs.

That got me thinking about the doctrine of perspicuity of Scripture, which says (quoting gotquestions here) "that the central message of the Bible is clear and understandable and that the Bible itself can be properly interpreted in a normal, literal sense." From the Reformers' perspective it makes sense to claim this, as they put the Bible in everyone's hands, in their own language. Take it and read!

I think it's fairly obvious that this doctrine has its limits. Through the Spirit, anyone reading Scripture can come to faith! But not everything is obvious to everyone when reading Scripture in a 'normal, literal sense'. No one will deny that, I think.

Even so, do we remember that we are reading translations of Scripture, when we cite this or that prooftext?Are we sure that verse is correctly translated? Some words have concepts or notions behind them, in their source language, that are very difficult to correctly translate into other languages; sometimes these are even completely absent in the receiving language. And do we have enough of a grasp of the context (Biblical, cultural, historical) to understand what it meant to the original readers?

As the work of scholars continues, we have ever more papyri or manuscripts to work with, more source material to determine how certain words functioned in koine Greek or how they were understood in other early languages and translations. A good reason to give our translations a 'booster shot' every now and then, I think: they need to be refreshed in the light of current scholarship.

And then there is ideological bias in translation work. That can go in all sorts of directions. The translators of a new and important Dutch translation (NBV2021) were accused by conservative Reformed people of having removed gendered language where they shouldn't have, an accusation fairly easily repudiated by the scholars involved I think. Across the pond, in the egalitarian-complementarian debate raging in the Anglosphere, the ESV is said to have a strong complementarian bent.

Let's not confuse the authority of Scripture with the

perspicuity: the quality or state of being transparent or translucent

See tree for perspicuity: http://treegle.xyz/define/perspicuity

Words you might not have heard of -

• perspicuous: Clearly expressed or presented; easy to understand.
• ultracrepidate: to go beyond one's scope or province, esp to criticize beyond your sphere of knowledge.
• colposinquanonia: Estimating a woman's beauty based on her chest.
• satori: Sudden enlightenment (Buddhist).
• anneal: To strengthen or harden.

These words are taken from vocabulary app - Vocab Assistant

adjective

1. plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation

Popularity: Bottom 50% of words

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Words that readers of this subreddit may like -

• somniloquence: the act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism.
• anancasm: Any form of repetitious stereotyped behavior that, if prevented, results in anxiety; An obsolete term for ritualistic act or sequence of acts performed by a person with obsessive-compulsive neurosis. [G. 'anankasma', compulsion].
• babbitt: A narrow-minded, self-satisfied person with an unthinking attachment to middle-class values and materialism.
• perspicuous: Clearly expressed or presented; easy to understand.
• eigengrau: The dark grey colour seen by the eyes in perfect darkness, as a result of signals from the optic nerves.

These words are taken from vocabulary app - Vocab Assistant

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Words that readers of this subreddit may like -

• mewl: To cry weakly; whimper.
• voluptuary: a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit and enjoyment of luxury and sensual pleasure.
• mumpsimus: Adherence to a traditional custom or notion although it is shown to be unreasonable.
• perspicuous: Clearly expressed or presented; easy to understand.
• raisonneur: a character in a play, novel, or the like who voices the central theme, philosophy, or point of view of the work.

These interesting words are taken from Vocab Assistant which is a vocabulary building chatbot.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

The doctor says it terminal.

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

perspicuity: the quality or state of being transparent or translucent

See tree for perspicuity: http://treegle.xyz/define/perspicuity

perspicuity: the quality or state of being transparent or translucent

See tree for perspicuity: http://treegle.xyz/define/perspicuity

perspicuity: the quality or state of being transparent or translucent

See tree for perspicuity: http://treegle.xyz/define/perspicuity