How does God convey that communication? He chooses to utilize hearing and reading. A person can neither believe nor understand what he or she has not heard or read.18 In addition, merely hearing or reading without understanding cannot produce full obedience. God’s Word in an understandable language stimulates the proper response. A seminary professor wrote, “In Bible translation, faithfulness to the original meaning of a text is important, but it is not enough. The other critical test is what it