Posted on 06/24/2004 7:21:03 AM PDT by take
That Anglican's are praising this "translation" in spite of this symbolic-only understanding of baptism speaks volumes about where their church is at. The need to update concepts about marriage overrides everything else.
Time for another Armada, another Inquisition. The Angliccans (notice the change in spelling to fit in with Wiccans) are paganists, worse, they're the canker of Christianity -- post Christians
Dan
Finally someone has succeeded in making the Good News Bible look conservative.
I teach parts of the Bible in a college course. I would like to use the King James Version, since it is by far the most familiar to most people in the English world and was used by most of our great writers. But I settled for the Revised Standard Version (RSV) as the best for students who are put off by the antique language. It's accurate and it has most of the dignity of the KJV.
I usually have a few Jewish students in the class who know the Hebrew well, and they are not happy with some of the more modern versions, which depart widely from the original Hebrew. They seem happy with the RSV, which was produced by a committee of Protestant and Catholic scholars who were not fortunately committed to the watered-down, least common denominator version of ecumenism.
Most of the translations published since the RSV are less, not more accurate, because the agenda is usually feminist and political. "Man" is out. "He" is out. "Father" is out. And so forth.
Yes, Peter means "rock" in both Greek and Latin. His name was Simon, and Jesus changed it to Peter because he said he was the Rock on which he would build his Church. But the thing to do is to tell people that, in a note or a sermon, not change his name to Rocky.
Changing of names goes back to Genesis and Exodus, where God changes Abram to Abraham, Sarai to Sarah, Jacob to Israel, and so forth, to indicated that they were being brought into His covenant and beginning a new life of faithfulness under a new name.
Are there any Anglican/Episcopalian Freepers out there? What do you guys think about what's going on in your organisation? And what are you doing about it? Is there any help you would need from us, your fellow Christians (because in the end that's all that matters) and fellow freepers?
Is it _really_ that hard to read the KJV? I'm reading it now and if I happen to not understand a word I look it up. If I don't understand a passage, I'll read the same passage in an NIV and/or RSV and work through it. But I can count the times I've had to do that on one hand.
If this is real, and not a parody, then it looks to me far worse that the "inclusive language" of "Today's NIV" that Zondervan started hawking a few years ago.
This has to be a joke. A very bad joke.
When I read that sentence, I pictured the faceless guy who follows Tiger Woods around standing on the bank shouting, "You the Man, Jesus!"
"You da man, Jesus!" (Arsenio Hall-type barks and hand gestures here.)
Unfortunately, this is not satire.
I had someone at work look up John Henson on a news service. (She printed the articles for me) There is an article yesterday from the London Times and the Vancouver Sun today. These are both pay-me-money sites, so I can't link to the story.
Yes, we think it's absolutely horrendous. I've been on several Anglican/Episcopal conservative messageboards and both clergy and non-clergy are VERY upset. We think it might be the final straw that could split off the conservatives within the western world from the liberal establishment in ECUSA/Canada/Church of England. There's a dying hope that ++Rowan was possibly duped into writing the book comments without reading the contents and may apologize. Otherwise he has just revealed himself to be the worse kind of liberal.
As for this trash which claims to be a Bible, it's not worth the paper it is printed on. Among its numerous faults:
- they remove the Book of Revelation and replace it with a book from the Apocrypha
- the Holy Spirit at the Baptism is a female pigeon
- they take out the Bible verses against homosexuality
- they change the words of St Paul to recommend sex with a 'partner' rather than with a spouse in marriage
- no angels, only God's 'helpers'
- no Satan. Jesus is tempted by thoughts popping into His head
- Rocky? Maggie?
It's simple heresy. Drivel and garbage. End of story.
I forgot that Jesus goes around preaching that the New World is coming. I think they mean the New World Order. The spirit of antichrist is truly found in this garbage.
For your review.....
WHAAAAAAAT???
ok... where's the Onion byline?
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