[BBC List] anybody for a new translation? Peter is now called "Rocky!"

Thu Apr 20 09:28:11 EAST 2006

It never ends…

>From Jack Hughes:

“The foreword of this new version (the Good as New: A Radical Retelling of
the Scriptures version) is by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams,
the highest-ranking person in the Anglican Church. The editor/author of this
version, John Henson, is a former Baptist minister, who refers to himself as
a member of “a network of radical Christians.” (Redoing, emerging from the
stale Christianity, and rewriting.) He has created this new perversion of
the Bible in which all the key characters of the Bible are renamed to have
more modern names people can relate to. Peter is called “Rocky.” Mary
Magdalene is “Maggie.” Aaron is “Ron.” Barabbas is “Barry.”

Here are a couple of examples from this new version of the Bible: Mark
1:10-11, Mark’s account of Jesus’ baptism, "As he was climbing up the bank
again, the sun shone through a gap in the clouds. At the same time a pigeon
flew down and perched on him. Jesus took this as a sign that God's spirit
was with him. A voice from overhead was heard saying, 'That's my boy! You're
doing fine!' "

In 1 Corinthians 7:1-2, the New American Standard Bible reads, “Now
concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to
touch a woman. But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own
wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.” The King James translates
it, “to avoid fornication.” The word “immoralities” there is any sort of
sexual perversion. Henson renders it this way in his new version, "Some of
you think the best way to cope with sex is for men and women to keep right
away from each other. That is more likely to lead to sexual offences. My
advice is for everyone to have a regular partner."

Later in verse nine of that same chapter, 1 Corinthians 7, Henson’s version
reads, "If you know you have strong needs, get yourself a partner—better
than being frustrated." This Bible is advertised as “women-, gay-, and
sinner-friendly,” and a version of the Bible where readers can “hear for the
first time what the Christian Scriptures are really saying.”HYPERLINK
"http://www.calvarybiblechurch.org/sermons.aspx/text/20060108.htm#sdfootnote
8sym"8

So beware of that. I hope that you notice that every one of these
aberrations is an attack on the Bible. All of them are attacks on the Bible.

Fifth, there is the total collapse of the Anglican Church. We’ve already
mentioned N.T. Wright, a bishop in the Anglican Church, and Archbishop
Williams endorsing the above-mentioned “Bible.” The Anglican Church supports
homosexuality, sexual immorality, lesbianism, and fornication—all sorts of
things—but more recently, even the worship of pagan deities.

Bishops in the Anglican Church like Jack Spong and Charles Bennison even
deny the Resurrection, yet they’re still bishops—Anglican bishops. The
worship of pagan deities was found in an article titled “A Woman’s
Eucharist: A Celebration of the Divine Feminine,” which was listed on the
Episcopal Church’s official women’s ministry website.HYPERLINK
"http://www.calvarybiblechurch.org/sermons.aspx/text/20060108.htm#sdfootnote
9sym"9 There we read of women who gather around a little table [on which
there is] sweet wine, milk mixed with honey, a bowl filled with salted
water, and raisin cakes. [During the ceremony,] one of the women says,

“Mother God, our ancient sisters called you Queen of Heaven and baked these
cakes in your honor in defiance of their brothers and husbands who would not
see your feminine face. We offer you these cakes, made with our own hands;
filled with the grain of life—scattered and gathered into one loaf, then
broken and shared among many. We offer these cakes and enjoy them too. They
are rich with the sweetness of fruit, fertile with the ripeness of grain,
sweetened with the power of love. May we also be signs of your love and
abundance.”

They’re worshiping the “Queen of Heaven” in “defiance of their brothers and
husbands.” Where do they get this? They get it from two texts in the Old
Testament, primarily Hosea 3:1 where the Lord says to Hosea, “Go again, love
a woman who is loved by her husband, yet an adulteress, even as the Lord
loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin
cakes."

So what these Episcopalian women are saying is, “We want to do what God
prevented Gomer from doing, because God was anti-feminine.” But, most of
this comes from Jeremiah 44:15-19 where the Lord, through Jeremiah, is
rebuking the women who have worshiped the “queen of heaven.” This is what
the text says:

Then all the men who were aware that their wives were burning sacrifices to
other gods, along with all the women who were standing by, as a large
assembly, including all the people who were living in Pathros in the land of
Egypt, responded to Jeremiah, saying, "As for the message that you have
spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not going to listen to you! But
rather we will certainly carry out every word that has proceeded from our
mouths, by burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink
offerings to her, just as we ourselves, our forefathers, our kings and our
princes did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then
we had plenty of food and were well off and saw no misfortune. But since we
stopped burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink
offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have met our end by the
sword and by famine." 

"And," said the women, "when we were burning sacrifices to the queen of
heaven and were pouring out drink offerings to her, was it without our
husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out
drink offerings to her?"

In other words, these women [in Jeremiah’s time] were saying, “We aren’t
going to submit to our husbands, we aren’t going to submit to God’s Word, we
aren’t going to submit to God’s prophet. We’re going to keep worshiping the
‘queen of heaven’ because when we did that before, we were blessed, and when
we stopped, we weren’t, and we’re going to do it without our husbands’
consent. We’re going to rebel against them.” And now these [Episcopalian]
women have made a Eucharist to worship the “queen of heaven.” It was on the
official Episcopal site for women’s ministry. Is that unbelievable or what?
That is enough to give somebody an aneurism.”

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Charis, 

Mike Abendroth 

"Make us choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to
be contented with half truth when whole truth can be won.  Endow us with
courage that is born of loyalty to all that is noble and worthy, that scorns
to compromise with vice and injustice and knows no fear when right and truth
are in jeopardy."

 - West Point Military Academy Cadet Prayer 

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