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New Conservative Bible will eliminate 'liberal' text
Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | October 18, 2009 | Bob Smietana

Posted on 10/18/2009 6:06:12 PM PDT by HogsBreath

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — If Andy Schlafly has his way, there will be no socialists or snake handlers in the Bible. No woman caught in adultery. And, definitely, no Stephen Colbert.

Schlafly, founder of Conservapedia.com, wants to save the Scriptures from liberals with his latest venture, the Conservative Bible Project. He says translations like the New International Version have added socialist ideals to the Good Book. But his rewrite of the Bible has drawn criticism from biblical scholars, liberals and conservatives.

(Excerpt) Read more at knoxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bible; conservapedia; niv; religiousleft; schlafly; scholars
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1 posted on 10/18/2009 6:06:12 PM PDT by HogsBreath
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To: HogsBreath

Gotta be a joke.


2 posted on 10/18/2009 6:08:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
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To: HogsBreath

Well, Jefferson did it, removed all references to miracles. Anyone can redact, it doesn’t change the truth.


3 posted on 10/18/2009 6:14:51 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Obamanos!)
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To: HogsBreath
Do they know what a conservative is?
4 posted on 10/18/2009 6:16:11 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (It always easier to find spelling errors after you post.)
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To: BenLurkin

Another sign of the age of shopping for religion. He wants a Bible that agrees with him not one that tells God’s Word.

Boobs like this give conservatism a bad name.


5 posted on 10/18/2009 6:16:25 PM PDT by Patrick1 (I'm not calling in sick; I'm calling in gone!)
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To: HerrBlucher

What the truth is depends on the translation.


6 posted on 10/18/2009 6:16:31 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: HogsBreath

What a bunch of you-know-what. I am a Conservative but I believe there is only one Bible. FYI, there is also a “Green Bible” in the Sunday Schools of the ELCA I’m told. Imagine what that’s all about.


7 posted on 10/18/2009 6:17:59 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: antiRepublicrat

No, Truth is Truth and does not change with tranlation. Whether or not the particular translation fits the Truth, that is a different story.


8 posted on 10/18/2009 6:20:01 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Obamanos!)
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To: HogsBreath
only one conservative bible

Bible translations developed for Catholic use are complete Bibles. This means that they contain the entire canonical text identified by Pope Damasus and the Synod of Rome (382) and the local Councils of Hippo (393) and Carthage (397), contained in St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate translation (420), and decreed infallibly by the Ecumenical Council of Trent (1570). This canonical text contains the same 27 NT Testament books which Protestant versions contain, but 46 Old Testament books, instead of 39. These 7 books, and parts of 2 others, are called Deuterocanonical by Catholics (2nd canon) and Apocrypha (false writings) by Protestants, who dropped them at the time of the Reformation. The Deuterocanonical texts are Tobias (Tobit), Judith, Baruch, Ecclesiasticus (Sirach), Wisdom, First and Second Maccabees and parts of Esther and Daniel. Some Protestant Bibles include the "Apocrypha" as pious reading.

9 posted on 10/18/2009 6:20:06 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: HogsBreath
only one conservative bible

Bible translations developed for Catholic use are complete Bibles. This means that they contain the entire canonical text identified by Pope Damasus and the Synod of Rome (382) and the local Councils of Hippo (393) and Carthage (397), contained in St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate translation (420), and decreed infallibly by the Ecumenical Council of Trent (1570). This canonical text contains the same 27 NT Testament books which Protestant versions contain, but 46 Old Testament books, instead of 39. These 7 books, and parts of 2 others, are called Deuterocanonical by Catholics (2nd canon) and Apocrypha (false writings) by Protestants, who dropped them at the time of the Reformation. The Deuterocanonical texts are Tobias (Tobit), Judith, Baruch, Ecclesiasticus (Sirach), Wisdom, First and Second Maccabees and parts of Esther and Daniel. Some Protestant Bibles include the "Apocrypha" as pious reading.

10 posted on 10/18/2009 6:20:07 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: HogsBreath
only one conservative bible

Bible translations developed for Catholic use are complete Bibles. This means that they contain the entire canonical text identified by Pope Damasus and the Synod of Rome (382) and the local Councils of Hippo (393) and Carthage (397), contained in St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate translation (420), and decreed infallibly by the Ecumenical Council of Trent (1570). This canonical text contains the same 27 NT Testament books which Protestant versions contain, but 46 Old Testament books, instead of 39. These 7 books, and parts of 2 others, are called Deuterocanonical by Catholics (2nd canon) and Apocrypha (false writings) by Protestants, who dropped them at the time of the Reformation. The Deuterocanonical texts are Tobias (Tobit), Judith, Baruch, Ecclesiasticus (Sirach), Wisdom, First and Second Maccabees and parts of Esther and Daniel. Some Protestant Bibles include the "Apocrypha" as pious reading.

11 posted on 10/18/2009 6:20:07 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: HogsBreath
only one conservative bible

Bible translations developed for Catholic use are complete Bibles. This means that they contain the entire canonical text identified by Pope Damasus and the Synod of Rome (382) and the local Councils of Hippo (393) and Carthage (397), contained in St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate translation (420), and decreed infallibly by the Ecumenical Council of Trent (1570). This canonical text contains the same 27 NT Testament books which Protestant versions contain, but 46 Old Testament books, instead of 39. These 7 books, and parts of 2 others, are called Deuterocanonical by Catholics (2nd canon) and Apocrypha (false writings) by Protestants, who dropped them at the time of the Reformation. The Deuterocanonical texts are Tobias (Tobit), Judith, Baruch, Ecclesiasticus (Sirach), Wisdom, First and Second Maccabees and parts of Esther and Daniel. Some Protestant Bibles include the "Apocrypha" as pious reading.

12 posted on 10/18/2009 6:20:08 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: HogsBreath
only one conservative bible

Bible translations developed for Catholic use are complete Bibles. This means that they contain the entire canonical text identified by Pope Damasus and the Synod of Rome (382) and the local Councils of Hippo (393) and Carthage (397), contained in St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate translation (420), and decreed infallibly by the Ecumenical Council of Trent (1570). This canonical text contains the same 27 NT Testament books which Protestant versions contain, but 46 Old Testament books, instead of 39. These 7 books, and parts of 2 others, are called Deuterocanonical by Catholics (2nd canon) and Apocrypha (false writings) by Protestants, who dropped them at the time of the Reformation. The Deuterocanonical texts are Tobias (Tobit), Judith, Baruch, Ecclesiasticus (Sirach), Wisdom, First and Second Maccabees and parts of Esther and Daniel. Some Protestant Bibles include the "Apocrypha" as pious reading.

13 posted on 10/18/2009 6:20:08 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero; HogsBreath

Okay! For the SIXTH time...we heard you. ;o)


14 posted on 10/18/2009 6:23:48 PM PDT by boatbums (Pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life!)
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To: HogsBreath
The Douay Rheims is an excellent text and proven over centuries.

Douay Rheims bible online

15 posted on 10/18/2009 6:26:06 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: boatbums

I didn’t do it....must be divine intervention. LOL


16 posted on 10/18/2009 6:27:38 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: HogsBreath
I suspect the mind of God
is much larger than
Liberal vs Conservative thought

In Christ there is no East or West,
in him no South or North,
but one great fellowship of love
throughout the whole wide earth.

In him shall true hearts everywhere
their high communion find,
his service is the golden cord
close-binding all mankind.

Join hands, disciples of the faith,
whate’er your race may be!
Who serves my Father as a son
is surely kin to me.

In Christ now meet both East and West,
in him meet South and North,
all Christly souls are one in him,
throughout the whole wide earth.

Words: John Oxenham, 1908

17 posted on 10/18/2009 6:27:40 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: vox_freedom

Wasn’t that also the name of a 70s porn star?


18 posted on 10/18/2009 6:28:17 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Vaquero

Vaquero,
The word of the day is “neoplasm”.


19 posted on 10/18/2009 6:28:19 PM PDT by gitmo (History books will read that Lincoln freed the slaves and Obama enslaved the free.)
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To: Vaquero

You can’t go wrong with the original King James Version.

It included the Apochrypha.


20 posted on 10/18/2009 6:35:23 PM PDT by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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