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NASB | Hebrews 2:9 But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 2:9 But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while [by taking on the limitations of humanity], crowned with glory and honor because of His suffering of death, so that by the grace of God [extended to sinners] He might experience death for [the sins of] everyone. |
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Bible Note: 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 |