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NASB | John 17:17 "Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 17:17 "Sanctify them in the truth [set them apart for Your purposes, make them holy]; Your word is truth. |
Bible Question:
Oh my goodness... I've never seen anything as utterly dumb as this. Zondervan has a new paraphrase. And I thought all the other paraphrases were dumb! It is called "The Word on the Street." Look how Genesis 2:23-24 is "paraphrased" “Whoa! Now we’re talking!” says Adam. “She’s like me . . . only not. Same bones, same skin, same shape . . . only not. She’s . . . uh . . . sexy. If I’m ‘man’, she’s . . . uh . . . ‘woman’.” (eyes cast heavenward) |
Bible Answer: How about the Message? Sometimes the religious language of the Bible stunts our ability to aprehend for our whole lives. I think the Message is very good, even taking into account the original languages. My respect for the message jumped up a few notches when studying Isaiah. The traditional rendering of Isaiah 28:10 goes like this: "For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little." But the commentary I was reading acknowledged that we really don't know what this passage means, and that the traditional rendering is on loose ground. The commentary then mentioned that many scholars think the text is not actually a sentence at all, but an immitation of baby sounds..... OK, now look at the message: "Da, da, da, da, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's a good little girl, that's a good little boy.'" So, Eugene Peterson is not only sassy, he's done his research. Paraphrases, done well, have an important but subserviant relation to the Real Thing. JRM |