“Bible study” had always mean the study of the Bible, and not the study of people’s opinions of the Bible. That has been reversed with this book. This is one of those books that is a project of a philosophical opinion in Standpoint Epistemology. The point of the book is to speak about how someone in the Philippines may read their modern Translated Bible in their own language today. It is not a book about what the Philippians would have thought in reading the letter of Paul to them. The approach of this book and ones like it is basically modern cultural speculation and the product of sociology that has been taken over by Cultural Marxism (this is clearly seen in the economic claims of the book). It is not the written version of the supposed “Bible study” which is just going around the room asking “how do you feel.” Some of the claims about time and relationships is strange and honestly foolish. Some of the claims say to me that the authors are gullible people. Someone calls you “uncle” and there for you send them money as if you take pain giving them away as a blood relationship? If you want to do so, do it, but Filipino people are people like you. Chinese people and Filipino people are not that much apart as to have no sense of time. We talk about “Chinese time” but Mexicans know to not show up to the party on the time listed, unless they know the friend starts on time the food it going to be gone. Come on! The silliness claims of this book makes me laugh at time, and at other times it is frankly insulting.