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(Sept. 2) - The top-selling Bible in North America will undergo its first revision in 25 years, modernizing the language in some sections and promising to reopen a contentious debate about changing gender terms in the sacred text. The New International Version, the Bible of choice for conservative evangelicals, will be revised to reflect changes in English usage and advances in Biblical scholarship, it was announced Tuesday. The revision is scheduled to be completed late next year and published in 2011.
That kind of surprises me because this particular sect of Christianity is so conservative and I wouldn't have expected that they would even consider any changes in gender terms since they seem to want their women to be barefoot and pregnant. There's one problem when you do a revision and that is the fact that you've moved one step further away from the very original and have increased the probability for errors and misunderstandings of particular passages whose meanings are rather vague to begin with. It doesn't bother me personally because I'm not going to run out and buy one, it's just not something that I thought they would have done.
That kind of surprises me because this particular sect of Christianity is so conservative and I wouldn't have expected that they would even consider any changes in gender terms since they seem to want their women to be barefoot and pregnant. There's one problem when you do a revision and that is the fact that you've moved one step further away from the very original and have increased the probability for errors and misunderstandings of particular passages whose meanings are rather vague to begin with. It doesn't bother me personally because I'm not going to run out and buy one, it's just not something that I thought they would have done.
Then again, wasn't the King James Version pretty much the same thing? It was a new and politically correct translation of earlier Scripture at the time of publication. So why would anyone be surprised at an effort to do that again?
(Sept. 2) - The top-selling Bible in North America will undergo its first revision in 25 years, modernizing the language in some sections and promising to reopen a contentious debate about changing gender terms in the sacred text. The New International Version, the Bible of choice for conservative evangelicals, will be revised to reflect changes in English usage and advances in Biblical scholarship, it was announced Tuesday. The revision is scheduled to be completed late next year and published in 2011.
You mean the ones that refer to "hell" but actually name a smoking garbage dump found outside Jerusalem.
Yup that would be it, and now a grassed park. I guess them eternal fire went out eventually
The other references to the hades and sheol bits.
Maybe they should use color coding, red for negative connotations and blue for positive connotations, maybe colors will illustrate to the illiterate that Jesus was more about positive stuff than gay bashing and consigning sinners to the xian fictitious hell.
If this is supposed to be the "Word of God", then why should it need revision?
Also, are prophets revising it, or just normal everyday preists? Are they Gods words, or are they just human fixing of what they think God wants.
As someone put earlier, it amazes me that people put so much faith in a book, that was written by people.
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