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Originally Posted by notofworks
The following is from the NLT website. I bolded several things:
The translators of the New Living Translation set out to render the message of the original texts of Scripture into clear, contemporary English. As they did so, they kept the concerns of both formal-equivalence and dynamic-equivalence in mind. On the one hand, they translated as simply and literally as possible when that approach yielded an accurate, clear, and natural English text. Many words and phrases were rendered literally and consistently into English, preserving essential literary and rhetorical devices, ancient metaphors, and word choices that give structure to the text and provide echoes of meaning from one passage to the next.
On the other hand, the NLT translators rendered the message more dynamically when the literal rendering was hard to understand, was misleading, or yielded archaic or foreign wording. They clarified difficult metaphors and terms to aid in the reader's understanding. The translators first struggled with the meaning of the words and phrases in the ancient context; then they rendered the message into clear, natural English. Their goal was to be both faithful to the ancient texts and eminently readable. The result is a translation that is both exegetically accurate and idiomatically powerful.
More than 90 Bible scholars, along with a group of accomplished English stylists, worked toward that goal. In the end, the NLT is the result of precise scholarship conveyed in living language.
If you can't understand that, you're looking at a blue wall and calling it red. You need to call the elevator repairman.
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Oh looky, you bolded the word "translation," "translators," and "translated." Wow. I'm such an idiot! I should've just looked at the title of their Bible.
It's hilarious that you bolded the "translation" in the "New Living Translation" as though that's proof enough.
One thing though, you complete IGNORED ... yet again ... the link from the site and what I posted where they stated their philosophy and methodology with the NLT. It includes Paraphrase. You continue to be willfully ignorant of that.
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Originally Posted by notofworks
Here's the prayer:
Heavenly Father,
I pray for our president Obama. I know that he supports equal representation and rights under the law that allows gays to marry. I pray that his intentions are pure and in favor of freedom, even if it be freedoms I disagree with. I pray that those who take this freedom find happiness, but ultimately I pray they find you.
Father, I know Obama believes that a woman's body isn't property of the United States Government and that a woman should have a right to choose. I pray that his motives are pure and truly are concerned with the rights and welfare of women. I also pray that those who he empowers choose life.
I ask oh Lord that you lead and guide him as he leads our nation in the days ahead.
In Jesus name.
Amen.
For you to call this perverted is perverse. You're no fun to talk to. There isn't a fact in this world you pay attention to, in favor of your own preconceived ideas. "Don't confuse the issue with the facts, please."
I think I'll check out of this discussion with you. I'm completely wasting time trying to include intellect with idiocy.
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Nah, you're not wasting your time trying to include intellect ... not when you have none to begin with. Your willfull ignorance overrides any intellect you may possess.
I've already broken down the prayer line by line and posted responses to it ... which you must have ignored as well.
I'll state again, the prayer is ambiguous, politically-correct, contains nothing about what is biblically right or wrong, and because of that is one of the most perverted prayers I've seen/heard.
You could take a poll and most would agree that right to choose is more synonymous with abortion than with pro-life. Argue that all you want, but it's true.
Check out, cop out, whatever. Makes no difference to me.
Perhaps you and your intellect would be better matched against, hmmm, Nancy Pelosi? She likes being willfully ignorant, you two would hit it off.