(Source: Daily Times and TLC.com)
Australia - Give me strength. From the two sources;
"In the Aussie Bible the Virgin Mary is "a pretty special sheila" who gets knocked up with the Big Boss' son wraps him in a bunny rug and tucks him up in a feed trough in the back shed because the local pub is full to bursting."I don't even know where to start here. This idea that the Word of God isn't right and needs a new slant to make it 'Hip' and 'Marketable' is a growing problem in Christian publishing markets. The claim is, 'We just have to reach the world in their lingo.' Balderdash! The lingo of the world is pain, suffering, guilt, loneliness, and hopelessness. And the Word of God and a life in Christ, in action and word, is what the world needs. Not another watered down, confusing, laughable, paraphrase of the Bible designed just to fill someone's pockets with cash.
Gary Petersen over at Country Keepers notes a similar repackaging of the Bible for young teenage girls that looks more like a hip magazine with a cover that features a trio of hip looking girls and typical magazine style teasers on "beauty tips and dating advice." Swing over there for a good read.
The problem I see over all this is that we are taking God's Holy Word in vain. Just like so many today use His name and His Son's name in vain in the Christian world, let alone the secular, the Church is now taking His entire word in vain. We are reducing its impact, its holiness, in the world.
If you want evidence of this, look at the Anglican church that just passes over the rules for calling a Bishop in their choosing of a man that left his wife and two children to live in the sin of homosexuality with another man. Incidentally, this particular Bible paraphrase, NOT translation, has the endorsement of Peter Jensen, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney.
The Great Separation continues.
