Featured Sheer Hypocrisy

About a decade ago I had a conversation with the owner of a local Christian bookstore. I had asked him why he wasn't selling any TNIVs. He gave me the usual drivel about a feminist plot, emasculating men and that the translation was advancing the position that women should be leaders in the home and church --all nonsense of course.

He maintained that as long as he owned the store NO NIV product (except for the 1984 edition would be sold.

Well, after all these years I returned and was surprised to find several shelves with NIVs --the 2011 edition. There were NLTs too. Of course there were mostly ESV on the remaining shelves of Bible translation racks.

Even those who do not like the NIV would say that the 2011 and TNIV are very much alike. I agree.

I saw the owner but decided not to engage him on the issue. I just shook my head.

Isn't it odd that someone could insist that something was terrible for church ten years ago could sell an almost identical product now? If he considered it an evil then --why the big turnaround?

Sheer hypocrisy.

It reminds me of that WORLD magazine's inconsistency twenty years ago. The mag spewed lies all over the place in issue after issue demeaning the TNIV and it translators.

Have they denounced its kissing cousin --the CSB? Of course not. Such hypocrites. They even displayed ads for God's Word Bible translation that uses about as much inclusive language as does the TNIV.

 

"We"? Who exactly does that refer to? Your assembly at that time? Or are you making a sweeping generalization that every English speaking person was KJVO? If the latter, you are seriously mistaken.

In your nation J.B. Phillips introduced his translation around 70 years ago (I prefer his 1972 edition). People had choices.

By the way, yesterday I picked up four JBP books for a total price of 80 cents.

 

He might very well have changed his mind.

But this speaks to the kind of mindset many Christians have. They hear bad reports from "experts" like James Dobson ;-) and then speak adamantly against it without personally verifying anything. A decade down the line after all the garbage has been spewed they then quietly have no qualms about it. No remorse, no repentance --just moving along forgetting all the trouble they caused in the first place.

 

I went to the bookstore yesterday and still couldn't work up the nerve to discuss the matter.

I was indeed looking for other books. But I went to the shelves with Bible translations and noticed not only 2011 NIVs but TNIVs!

What a turnaround!

 

From Merriam Webster

Drivel intransitive verb meaning: To talk stupidly and carelessly.

 

Today's New International Version

 

LOL!! "Gender renderings" --what a laugh.

The inclusive language used in the NET, CSB and 2011 NIV are just about the same. Wake up and tell the truth.