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Originally Posted by TheLegalist
It's not a TRANSLATION! It's a personal opinion piece with added meaning per his theology. "The Shack" is about as heretical as it gets with it's antinomian doctrine and Universalism slant.
REVELATION.... ROFL yeah uh huh!
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Of course it's a translation. On the continuum of literal word-for-word, and thought-for-thought, it obviously swings wide to the thought-for-thought field. The Message uses the same scholarship for interpretation, but rather than approach the text in a literal way, the intent of The Message was to capture "the message," that thought, convey the bottom-line on the passages in a context that makes sense to today's audience. No one I know claims The Message as an exclusive translation of the Bible. The exegesis EP does with TM is wonderful -- despite an occassional disagreement about how the passage should be read.
Anyone who has spent time in Exegetical Commentaries recognizes the refreshing flow of The Message. EP does a wonderful job.
To say it's "personal opinion" is quite misleading.
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