The Translators intent??

I have looked at them personally, but I will admit only a couple of times in the bookstore.
While the content maybe OK (some of the examples here are and some of what I read I thought was good) the philosophy behind the production is contrary to what God desires. As Christians we never look to what the world wants and then formulate our strategy around it. What I sense, based on an interview I heard once of Whaley, the woman behind the idea.

This philosophy of ministry opens the door to all sorts of possibilities. Why not have a men´s version in the style of Playboy minus the nude pics. After all you will be getting men to read the Bible right? The idea is disgusting I sure to all here, but the ideology is the same.

Lowell Livezey is a profesor at Harvard Divinity School- hardly what we would call an evangelical insitution, he say regarding Revolve: "Even though it tells you not to do the revealing clothing, it still is part of that market culture that promotes Victoria’s Secret."

And Laurie Whaley herself explains how she came up with the idea to make a biblezine in this CT article. She says that they conducted a survey of teen girls and got this response: They don't read the Bible." They say, "It's too big; it's too freaky; it doesn't make sense." When asked about what they do read, the teens said they read "magazines, magazines, magazines," Whaley reports. Examples: Cosmo, Glamour, Teen People, YM, and seventeen.

We need to remember that just because the end result is fine, the means to achieving it or the philosophy behind it are not always right. To me, this trivializes the Gospel. The "freakiness" of the Bible is what gives the Gospel power. Its foolishness to them that don´t believe.

 

I ain't real sure about the "bundled" part, but I'll go for a few points of "Extra Credit".

"Y" - Young's Literal Translation

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0801099102/?tag=baptis04-20

"U" - UBS - Novum Testamentum Graece

UBS Greek New Testament



And a really tough one was the "K", but I did manage to find a couple -

Klingon Bible -

Klingon Language Version of the World English Bible

And one I ain't real shore I ever hear-ed of before!



This here'n must be one o' them thar' new-fangled Modern Versions I keep hearin' about! :laugh: :laugh:

Ed

P.S. The Army motto is "The Difficult we do immediately; The Impossible takes a little longer!"

The "X" may take a little longer!

 

Amen and amen. But Christ did not ask the woman first why she never worshiped in Jerusalem, or why she was adulterous. He simply gave her His Gospel. He did not use pop culture to "market" His truth. Again it comes down to the ideology behind it all.

 

He didn't offer her the world with the Word, now did He?

 

Because they have photos of kids on them? Because they're in color?

I seriously don't get the "fleshly" thing.

Was the girl not wearing coulottes(sp)? :laugh:

 

He offered her heaven with His word.

Jesus also taught using the world as examples... the things that were said and done in the world around Him and His listeners. He didn't shove the truth down their throats, but instead He met them where they were and couched the truth in stories and parables.

Jesus didn't dress in a suit and tie, nor did He dress like the priests or the Pharisees (never saw a mantion about Him wearing a phylactery).

If He didn't put His message in a stiff formal cover, why should we DEMAND that others do so now?

 

No, I'm not going to deliberately break the rules. That is sin..."worldly". You are not making any sense with your "all the information" lingo.

Only one problem...it's not a magazine. It's a Bible whose cover resembles a magazine. You still are clueless about the connotation of "worldly".

 

The Bible does not teach us to dress the Bible up to look like the world and then read it. As a matter of fact, it teaches just the opposite.

We are to come out from amongst the worldly way and be separate, not join them together with the Word. God states until we come to Him on His terms, He will not receive us. His terms do not include dumbing down His Word or trying to appease the flesh by changing His Word to look like the world.

 

What is a Bible supposed to look like?

 

In this case, that is apples to oranges. There is no wolf to be found, it's a Bible.

 

If you are referring to the Word of God as a wolf...I feel for you.

 

I wonder why this question is not being answered...

 

If you are referring to Revolve or Refuel as the Bible, I feel for you.

 

If you feel the New Testament is not the Bible...I feel for you.

 

One thing it is not supposed to look like is worldly trash.