When I was younger, my parents would speak in Dutch to keep secrets from my brothers and me, or would tell each other on the opposite side of the meal table something like give him a clip over the ear.

One day my extended family went to a quaint mountain restaurant near Melbourne, and they described the atmosphere there as “gezellig”. I asked them what this word meant, they said it was untranslatable.

I thought to myself that this was not true at all, it was not untranslatable. My uncle, who was Pentecostal Bible college lecturer, should have known better.

Recently, a Dutch-born language expert told me that no word is untranslatable.

I remember around 2000 researching Old English, and finding “gesǽllíc”, which gives rise to the modern word, “seelie”.

So much for being “untranslatable”, the Dutch word, which has no doubt common origin with the old Anglo-Saxon language, had essentially the same word and cognate concept in English.

Thus, not only was the word translatable, the word had a common origin in both languages.

Thus, what was homely and cozy in modern Dutch was blessed, fortunate, felix into modern English without translation, so how much easier would it be to be able to express in English words what was thought of as allegedly special in Dutch, when English is a superior language for many reasons.

When it comes to Bible translation, all the myths and misleading emphasis that is put onto Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Greek, and all the errors taught under the banner of “hermeneutics”, as though linguistic cultural nuance is uncommunicable in English, should be exploded.

“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.” (Romans 15:4).

Thus, we are able to have an accurate translation in English of what was written of old.

“But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:” (Romans 16:26).

The teachings and truth of Scripture is being made readily known. The Holy Ghost is leading people into truth, and we have an accurate presentation of the Scripture with the King James Bible which is made common around the world.