Bible for femanists

WND ^ | September 29, 2003 | WND

[joesnuffy]

TESTING THE FAITH Bible for feminists Translators rewriting passages seen as 'biased'

Posted: September 29, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

You've come a long way, Virgin Mary?

To demonstrate there's no glass ceiling in heaven, the German Evangelical Church has undertaken the ambitious project of retranslating the Bible in gender-neutral terms.

Ananova reports more than 50 translators are hard at work on a new edition of the holy book. They're rewriting passages seen to discriminate against women, using "unbiased and unjust" language.

Specifically, the term disciple is to be changed to "disciples and disciplesses."

Translators will also remove references to "Lord" and "Our Father."

The project is expected to take up to a year. Gueterslohe publishing house is expected to print 10,000 copies of the revised Scriptures.

[Revelation 911]

uh - joe - lemme know when you spot one of them there fe-manists

In the meanwhile, I'll be on guard for the feminists

It makes me wonder about the correct spelling of your name too

...is it really joesniffy? LOL

have a good day snuff

[50sDad]

"In the interests of diversity, tonight the part of Jesus Christ will be played by a black lesbian woman. Judas, of course, will be played by a striaght, middle-aged white man."

[CatoRenasci]

This sort of thing has been going on in the mainline Protestant churches in the US for years. I think the New Revised Standard translation has gone a long way towards political correctness and there are other translations that are even worse. And many Protestant hymnals have been rewritten to be politically correct. Possibly the worst is the UCC's New Century Hymnal which not only adds dozens , if not hundreds, of politically correct new concoctions (I wouldn't call them hymns), but rewrites all of the old standards to remove all references to God as male.

While it is undoubtedly true that some of the more modern translations of the Bible, e.g. the Jerusalem Bible for Roman Catholics and the New English Bible for Protestants, are more accurate translations because they draw on older manuscripts and better scholarship, for the sheer power of language, nothing compares to the Authorized Version (King James) in English, Luther's German Bible, or St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate Bible.

Most familiar to Americans of these older translations is King James, which has fallen out of favor primarily because it is hard not because it is so very wrong. There were late 19th century translations in English (an English Standard and American Standard version with slight variations) that kept most of the language of King James, but fixed some of the mistakes which 19th century scholarship found. They weren't bad at all.

I never understood how, in high school we could read Shakespeare in the original Elizabethan English, and Chaucer in middle english, but King James was too hard to understand.

[Bennett46]

I would think this endeavor amounts to quite a bit of work and expense. I doubt these "revisers" have read the Bible through to the end, though.

What a suprise they have in store for themselves.

Revelation 22:18-19

Rev. 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.

Rev. 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Perhaps they will decide to leave the book of Revelation out of their Feminest Bible?

[Just mythoughts]

".... but the King James is too hard to understand."

Paul the writer of most of the New Testament does an outstanding job of passing on instruction. Paul was taught and knew the Old probably better than any of the other New Testament writers. Paul continually directs us to the Old which through-out it gives the prophecies, whom is whom, what is what, etc. Most Christians don't have a clue that it is their own best interest to learn what is given to them from the Old. They don't even know what their duty is, all most do is preach salvation over and over and over again.

However, it is our Heavenly Father that gives wisdom and understanding, reason why Christ said "those who have eyes to see and ears to hear", not given that all will understand, many are called but few chosen.

So it is not a bit surprising that in this so-called "modern" age that "flesh man" seeks to clean up the WORD so as not to offend, that is what most "Christians" already do.

[poet]

"Translators will also remove references to "Lord" and "Our Father.""

Hmm, probably change them to "Mom & Lover". These people are truly wackos.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Mother Teresa - the ultimate feminist.

[Arthur McGowan]

This could be called the IOGHBBI Version: If Only God Had Been Better Informed.

[DonQ]

Some Reform Jews adopted a "gender neutral" prayerbook about ten years ago. It no longer refers to "Lord" - ostensibly because that is a male noun in contrast to Lady - but it still uses "God" (having forgotten that is also male in contrast to Goddess). No longer "King" of the Universe but Ruler or Sovereign. So some familiar lines from old liturgy are now changed.

The real complaint is that, in order to avoid masculine/feminine pronouns (such as him/her, or his/hers), many sentences have been twisted so they no longer are good English ... nor faithful translations of the original Hebrew.

Do not, however, suppose this is very new. For about a century the Christian Scientists have been praying to "Father-Mother" God.

[horse_doc]

The new Bible goes along with the new wing of Hell that they are working on.

[Cicero]

Another church down the tubes, evidently.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[exmarine]

This is no surprise. It's from Germany - the mother country of liberal empty theology. Modern day Europe is apost-Christian, cold and dead socialist society. They have sewn the seeds of their own destruction. Thanks to their unrelenting attack on Christianity (that began in earnest with the French revolution) and their postmodern ideas of society, they all have negative populations growths and within 50 years, they will be dominated by muslim immigrants. And we all know what happens in countries where muslims have large populations...

[Stone Mountain]

Specifically, the term disciple is to be changed to "disciples and disciplesses."

This has got to be a joke. "Disciple" isn't gender-specific, is it?