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1 | What does "Edens Dawn Light Mean?" | Heb 2:9 | humbledbyhisgrace | 200944 | ||
Brother Hank, Couldn't agree with you more on the "Message". If you look at some of the comparisons done between actual translations and the message your left wondering who's message it is??? It certainly is not the message of God! Peterson's so called motivation for even doing the message was because he believed the congregation had become "bored with the Biblical text" so he set out to make it interesting to them. Once again mankind finds himself better equipped and capable of doing a better job then God? Go figure! What concerns me at this point is so many are buying into this nonsense. Even the publisher of the message (NavPress) "advertised it as a "translation from the original languages" that "accurately communicates the original Hebrew and Greek" and brings out "the subtleties and nuances of the Hebrew and Greek languages," This couldn't be farther from the truth! The scary part is watching the church buy into and push it. It just goes to show how so many of the so called Christian churches today fail to even know what the actual message is! This is another good example of how the church is so willing to compromise. Instead of speaking out against evil we passively sit by and concern ourselves with being politicaly correct and buy into the notion it is unchristian like to confront evil when in fact we should be confronting it in all it's manifestations as it continues to seek and harm us and our beloved brothers and sisters in Christ. The more I see the better I understand just how narrow the gate that few will find and enter in! Matthew 7:13-14 (NASB) 7:13 "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 7:14 "For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it. Steve |
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2 | What does "Edens Dawn Light Mean?" | Heb 2:9 | Hank | 200956 | ||
Brother Steve :: Everything you said about "The Message" is perfectly true. The publisher's blurb about this free and loose paraphrase being an accurate communication of the original languages is pure hogwash. And if Peterson sensed that his congregants became so "bored with the biblical text" that he felt constrained to write them a Bible that is roughly on the same linguistic level as a nursery rhyme, one wonders at the median age of his congregation. Surely it must not be more four years old. ...... How, I ask, how could any regenerate believer in the Lord grow bored by His precious word? The answer to this kind of boredom is to be found deep in the human heart, not in any re-written "message." How many times have I read Psalm 23 in the King James Bible? The number is legion, but never, never, never have I become bored with it! How many times did the old divines read Scripture over and over and yet over again? George Muller read the Bible through some 200 times. Many of them committed huge portions of God's word to memory. Were these men of God bored with God's word? There is no evidence that they were. On the contrary, George Muller described himself as a "happy, happy man." ...... So what's behind all this dumbing down of Scripture? Is it a hew and cry from the reading public, or is it something else? Something else like money for example. Most publishers of Bibles and religious books are in the business to make a profit (The Lockman Foundation, sponsers of this Forum, is a notable exception). --Hank | ||||||