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NASB | 2 Samuel 7:28 "Now, O Lord GOD, You are God, and Your words are truth, and You have promised this good thing to Your servant. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Samuel 7:28 "And now, O Lord GOD, You are God, and Your words are truth, and You have promised this good thing to Your servant. |
Subject: New Gender-Neutral NIV |
Bible Note: It comes as no real surprise that Zondervan has finally decided to do a "gender neutral" Bible. They have been itching to do this for some time; their efforts were thwarted a year or two ago when the announcement of their intentions raised such a fury of protest by the leadership in certain evangelical circles. One of the strongest voices of dissent belonged to Dr. Paige Patterson, president of the Southern Baptist Convention. What is surprising is that Zondervan has opted to make this move in the face of a definite trend, if my sources are savvy to the voice of the Bible-buying public, toward more literal versions of the Bible. The proposed revision to the NIV would seem to reflect a further movement away from a literal translation. The NIV promoters attempted to sell the reading public on essentially a paraphrased version by calling it dynamic equivalence, a term that sounds terribly more important and scholarly than paraphrase, but paraphrase it is nevertheless. Now they are preparing to dump the gender-neutral bill of goods on the Bible market. I have never been particulary fond of the NIV and will take great care not to spend a penny on the revised gender-neutral version. In fact, it is quite possible that I may have a couple of used NIV's that I'd be willing to sell at a bargain basement price! My advice? Stick by a version that makes every effort possible to give you in English what the Bible actually says in the original languages -- not what some translator thinks it means. --Hank |
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