To: Alex Murphy
I knew this had to be parody....
but on a serious note: why the ESV???
WORLD magazine just named it the book of the year?
Why?
Because it’s sold a million copies?
Why?
Why?
Doesn’t the English language world have enough translations?
What about the two or three Christian missions agencies that do Bible translations?
I think their work is FAR FAR more important than just another new English translation.
13 posted on
06/26/2009 12:27:58 PM PDT by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: fishtank
The ESV is a very good, often rather literal, translation. I like it. And I’m not even a Protestant.
14 posted on
06/26/2009 12:37:24 PM PDT by
vladimir998
(Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
To: fishtank
I knew this had to be parody....but on a serious note: why the ESV??? TBNN is known for it's Reformed-flavored humor. I suspect the ESV was chosen because the ESV is hugely popular among "New Calvinist" types, in no small part to Sproul's Reformation Study Bible.
16 posted on
06/26/2009 12:49:11 PM PDT by
Alex Murphy
(Theology is the Queen Of The Sciences)
To: fishtank
I think most of the new translations are crap. NRSV, NAS, they all got rid of the poetry and wit. In Matt 4:29, Jesus said, "I will make you fishers OF men" which became "I will make you fish for people". The pun completely lost for the sake of PC. If ESV restores some of that, as it promises, I could be for it.
20 posted on
06/26/2009 1:07:06 PM PDT by
ichabod1
(I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet (GOP Poet))
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