kiwimac

mine:

 

http://www.wayfarers-church.012webpages.com

Kiwimac

Slight change, now: www.wayfarers-church.co.nr

 

My purely lay opinion accords with your assessment of the New International Version. I think that it has a deliberate evangelical bias. It seems to be the favorite translation of many people in my church. At least, many of them seem to use it. However, they also use other popular translations such as the New Living Translation, which is quite easy to read, and various translations from the American Bible Society. I think that I am the only member of my congregation who uses the Revised English Version, though I most often read the New Revised Standard Version at church. Some members use the New American Bible. I was surprised in a class I attended at the local Unitarian-Universalist congregation that many students in the group I attended used the old Living Translation and the King James Version. The students seemed to have used these in their past church experiences. The pastor used an Oxford Study Bible Revised Study Version. The English Standard Version is an evangelical version based upon the Revised Standard Version but it is a modified version of that translation. I am not certain how closely it follows the RSV. I have not made a verse by verse comparison. It is a good version to use when you talk with evangelicals. Some very conservative folks endorse it. I think that the differences have to do with reading the Old Testament backwards from the New Testament. The Complete Gospels edited by Robert Miller from the Westar Institute is an excellent resource that I am not certain anyone here has mentioned. There are several study editions of the Revised Standard Version. One recent one is the New Intepreter's Study Bible. A new edition of The Harper Collins Study Bible is due for release in August. The Oxford Study Bible New Revised Standard Version remains an excellent choice for lay readers (in my humble lay opinion).

I also find the New English Bible and the 20th Century NT excellent translations even given their age.

An excellent supposition! Kahless was known for much wisdom and some miracles of his own. Did not he throw his hair into the ocean to form a bacleth?

He also had a sort of second coming? :-)

Gee, a trekker after my own heart. Welcome.

--des

Qapla!

Kiwimac:

 

I agree with you on the Kushner book. It really helped me through a bad time also, but that was a long time ago.

 

I'm really hip to your signature, but I would really like to know what it means. Is it Maori? Is it some kind of war chant? Do you know anyone in NZ with spirals on their cheeks? Just wondering.....flow....

Sorry to take SO VERY LONG to reply.

The Maori text asks us an important question,

"He aha te mei nui" What is it that is the most important (thing)

"He tangata" It is people

"He tangata" It is people

"He tangata" It is people.

His book and Rabbi Kushner's " When Bad things happen to Good people" were a Godsend to me during a very difficult time in my life.

Kiwimac

I use the NASB study Bible but not exclusively, I have 20 or so translations which I use. My favourites, New English Bible; NRSV; NASB; Good News etc.

Kiwimac

Surely the Saviour of the Klingons is Kahless?

Kiwimac

mine:

http://www.wayfarers-church.012webpages.com

Kiwimac

Rabbi Heschel is indeed Jewish

To your list may I add anything at all by Matthew Fox who writes on 'Creation Spirituality; and Gustavo Guttierrez who wrote about 'Liberation Theology'.

Pax

Kiwimac

I am

"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."

 

You are Desiderius Erasmus!

 

You have great love for others and will do just about anything to show it to them. You are tolerant and avoid confrontations, so people generally are drawn to you. You are more quiet and reserved in front of strangers, but around some people you open up. When things get tough, you like to meditate alone. Unfortunately you often get things like "what a pansy," or "you're such a liberal."

Kiwimac

The Gospel of Thomas is a 'Sayings Gospel" made up of short pithy statements with almost no link between them other than the person saying them. Some of its is Gnosticism (IMO) while in other portions the voice of the Spirit can be heard.

The Infancy Gospel is a different kettle o' theological piscines! Once again, IMO, the Infancy Gospel is almost entirely gnostic.

Kiwimac