Which translation do you enjoy? - Page 7

CC1 · #61 03-30-2019, 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Praxeas

Heretic

LOL!!!

navygoat1998 · #62 03-30-2019, 05:22 AM

NKJV, NASB and ESV.

Godsdrummer · #63 03-30-2019, 08:50 AM

Message

Evang.Benincasa · #64 03-30-2019, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Godsdrummer

Message

How are you doing? Let me start off with giving you a welcome back.

What do you like about the Message translation? What verses do you like above other translations?

diakonos · #65 03-30-2019, 01:57 PM

I don’t consider The Message a legitimate translation.

Evang.Benincasa · #66 03-30-2019, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by diakonos

I don’t consider The Message a legitimate translation.

I don't use it, it is like the J.B. Phillips New Testament or the The New Living Translation. But what verses do you see that are a problem?

diakonos · #67 03-30-2019, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

I don't use it, it is like the J.B. Phillips New Testament or the The New Living Translation. But what verses do you see that are a problem?

I don’t recall which verses. I began reading one of the gospels. I don’t know how far I got before I set it down.

diakonos · #68 03-30-2019, 04:43 PM

I found it very distasteful. Now I think I know why.
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The Message – Translation Method
The Message is not a translation, nor can it strictly be said to be a paraphrase of the original languages of the Bible. Peterson’s goal in creating The Message, in his own words, was to “bring the New Testament to life for two different types of people: those who hadn't read the Bible because it seemed too distant and irrelevant and those who had read the Bible so much that it had become ‘old hat’.”

https://www.gotquestions.org/The-Message-MSG.html

coksiw · #69 03-31-2019, 08:21 AM

Just to give an example:

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The reader who mistakes this cavalier treatment of the text for a reliable translation is in danger of being misled at many points. This danger is well illustrated by the following paragraph from a review of The Message which recently appeared on a religious homosexual website:
What about the passages against homosexuals, you might ask? Well, although we found his translation of Romans 1:26-27 a bit off, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and 1 Timothy 1:9-10 have been liberated from their heterosexual bias and are translated in ways that are much more inclusive and truer to their original intent. The text of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 reads as follows:
"Don't you realize that this is not the way to live? Unjust people who don't care about God will not be joining his kingdom. Those who use and abuse each other, use and abuse sex, use and abuse the earth and everything in it, don't qualify as citizens in God's kingdom"
The text of 1 Timothy 1:9-10 reads as follows:
"It's obvious, isn't it, that the law code isn't primarily for people who live responsibly, but for the irresponsible, who defy all authority, riding roughshod over God, life, sex, truth, whatever!"
We at Spirit & Flesh say, nicely done!

But these passages really do condemn homosexuality, as may be seen in any reasonably accurate translation:

Full analysis here: http://www.bible-researcher.com/themessage.html

Godsdrummer · #70 03-31-2019, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

How are you doing? Let me start off with giving you a welcome back.

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Thank you. Doing well, some days are better than others. Worked the last two day quite late, although I was tired I don't feel bad now. But for someone that has not taken much medication, all his life, I am on six pills a day. Blood pressure, cholesterol, and two or three blood thinners.

What do you like about the Message translation? What verses do you like above other translations?

The Message? I really don't have any opinion, lol just thought I would say the "message" because it is to controversial. Personally I don't find any thing wrong with any translation. (pretty out there for someone that was a King James only person for over half my life lol.)