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    Re: New Stories from the New Testament —Frank Filz
   (...) Well, you can probably always find someone to find something offensive. (...) I haven't looked at these in too much detail, but what I see is someone combining two life passions. Is it wrong for people to look for ways to express things which (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: New Stories from the New Testament —Bruce Schlickbernd
     (...) It looked like a simplified children's Bible to me, and not one meant to be taken as complete. Perhaps reading through the "Young Person's Bible" I gave to my son prepared me to accept this kind of thing. I read through the Last Supper, with (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: New Stories from the New Testament —Bruce Hietbrink
     (...) Obviously the only valid Bible is in the original KJV. :) Okay, I know, only Christians got that joke. Anyway, on to the main topic of the debate here. Three things. 1. The tone is definitely mocking, self-admittedly so.* 2. I'm a pretty (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: New Stories from the New Testament —Lindsay Frederick Braun
      (...) Depends. I get the joke, but I'm not sure it's the joke you were intending. :) (I presume you're making fun of the highly suspect circumstances of the KJV's translation?) (...) And the strength of Christianity and Christians should be in the (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
     
          Re: New Stories from the New Testament —Bruce Hietbrink
      (...) There are those Christians who think that the KJV is the only valid translation, and that all more recent translations (NIV, NASB, RSV, etc) are suspect. Some of them elevate the KJV so much that it seems they even find the original Hebrew, (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
     
          Re: New Stories from the New Testament —John Neal
       (...) Well, if it was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me;-) -John (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
     
          Re: New Stories from the New Testament —Lindsay Frederick Braun
      (...) Ah. Okay. Well, I found it funny for a related reason--mostly that James had the translation slanted in a way to extol monarchy and, some suggest, Catholicism (James having been a closet Catholic as he was). That's ironic for a lot of the (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
     
          Re: New Stories from the New Testament —Dave Schuler
      (...) That was going to be my point as well. I would argue that every translation including the first one (ie, from the "mind of God" to the "hand of man") automatically (though not necessarily intentionally) reflects some of the biases of the (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: New Stories from the New Testament —Ben Roller
     (...) As my dad likes to say "and Jesus wrote with a red pen." Ben Roller (23 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: New Stories from the New Testament —John Neal
   (...) I never questioned whether it was right or wrong, but rather its appropriateness (if that's a word). As Ian Malcolm once stated: "Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should..." Is the _ONLY_ way to express (...) That's an (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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