Top-Selling Bible to Be Issued in Gender-Neutral Version

Associated Press ^ | Monday, January 28, 2002 | Associated Press

[the_doc]

What, no "Sofia"? Isn't that the feminists' preferred name for God?

Thanks for the laugh. (Psalm 2:4).

[DallasMike]

I don't even know who texe marrs is. Sorry, you will have to find some other way to attack my position without addressing or quoting anything I've actually said.

I was responding to someone else and copied you. Sorry, I thought you could figure that out.

[DallasMike]

For anyone that really wants to study the issue, there have been a number of links posted with whole lists of differences between the bibles.

I have seen those and I have heard all the KJV-only arguments before. They are mostly baseless and, in many cases, laughable. If you really wanted to study the issue, you could use the concordance link that I provided you.

[dirtbiker]

Also, terms referring to God and Jesus Christ have not been altered.

Not yet, anyway! There is still time for the PC Nazis to work their language into the next "translation" of the Bible.

[StopGlobalWhining]

I lived in Oman, and the Canadian wife of one of my colleagues got a job at the University there as a research assistant. She was the curious type and asked a lot of questions about Islam.

One was about why women were not allowed inside the mosque during the time of the month they were considered unclean. Her male faculty boss told her that Allah didn't want to hear her prayers during that time? Why she asked? Because he doesn't.

Eventually she was "laid off". We were convinced that it was because she asked too many questions for which there were no logical answers.

[RnMomof7]

Look when the Father is female you will stop laughing and wash the dishes for Her *****grin****

[DallasMike]

Pray tell how is giving someone a list of differences between bibles so they can quickly see themselves the differences an argument of anything?

So are you saying you're not arguing in support of the KJV against other translations.

Don't get me wrong -- I like the King James Bible. It's a great translation. But the notion that it is somehow the only uncorrupted translation and the others are just tools of the devil is simply unsupportable. In fact, it's downright weird. The fact is that no translation is 100% perfect and we will never catch all of the subtle nuances unless we are completely fluent in ancient Hebrew, first-century Aramaic, and first-century Greek.

[Jean Chauvin]

Sorry, Faith.

I honestly didn't catch the sarcasm.

Jean

[Gamecock]

All,

"The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever."

Isaiah 40:8

[DallasMike]

I think two of the oddiest ones is translating wise men as magi, when magi isn't even a word in english...

Really? Better tell that to the folks at Dictionary.com -- they say that it's in both the American Heritage Dictionary and Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. I've known the meaning of the word since I was a small child, having learned it in the conservative Southern Baptist Church that I grew up in.

[Jean Chauvin]

I see the light of KJVonlyism!!

Does your Bible teach 'Recompence in the Same'?

Jean

[Sci Fi Guy]

2 Comments

1. Most of the Changes will be in changing the gender netural "he" to "They or "Them". Even it the change alters the meaning of the text.

2. This is what happens when Christians built a religious based business, then SELL OUT to non-Christians. I am so sick and tired of short-sighted Christians selling out for a quick profit. Someday we are going to have the "non-judgemental Bible" or the"Gay-Friendly Bible". And Non-Christians will be selling it under a label that Christians labored to build. I don't blame the non-Christians. I don't expect them to understand or care. But Christians should care about what is done in Christ's name. This happens when bureaucrats run the Church instead of disciples.

[nonliberal]

And people wonder why church memberships are declining.