Should We Use Eugene Peterson's, 'The Message' Bible?

Christian Post ^ | Michael Brown

[Texas Eagle]

Okay, okay.

[amihow]

Anyone have info on Power of Now by Tolle?

[Qout]

Eugene Peterson did not attempt to translate the Bible word for word, but idiom for idiom. We can say in our culture, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.” Translated word for word, the statement is true, but not particularly useful unless you have a horse suffering from dehydration. As an idiom, it is full of rich meaning and applicability. There are instances of sarcasm in the scriptures that the King James version fails to convey to the average reader and idioms from ancient culture that don’t hit us between the eyes the way that God intended.
The Message should not be our source of theology or study, but sometimes we need for God to smack us on the head and say, “Well, think again, you idiots, fools—how long before you get smart? ...”

[Norski]

Possibly there is some research you may wish to do regarding Bible versions. Many, if not most, of the Bible versions created and published since 1871, have been steadily removing or altering verses. Acts 8:37 is just one of many.

Here is a spreadsheet listing many such. It predates The Message, but it is worth checking.

http://www.av1611.org/biblevs.html

[Texas Eagle]

Thanks for the conversation just the same. That's the most Bible reading I've done in a long time.

Just kidding. I start every day with a passage from BibleGateway.com.

I read several versions to make sure I get the full context Holy Spirit wants me to get.

[Norski]

I apologize. Please forgive me. Norski.

[thesearethetimes...]

BookMark

[Texas Eagle]

No apology necessary. Have a great day in The Lord.

[Just mythoughts]

This is what the Heavenly Father declared would come to pass...

Amos 8: 1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

****9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:*******

12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

[lurk]

The message is like a mullet haircut. The back side of the mullet.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

The Message is one guy’s take on the Word of the Lord. It is personally biased to say what the author believes the Scripture says to him. It has its uses but should not be read as Scripture - more like study notes.

His version of Leviticus 18:22: 22 “Don’t have sex with a man as one does with a woman. That is abhorrent.”

So, when he wrote The Message he understood the sinfulness of homosexuality.

[circlecity]

“The Message”, as are most dynamic equivalent bibles, is more of a commentary than a translation.

[Cronos]

In short, you shouldn’t. You should only use the Douay-Rheims