The Message: Completely Unacceptable
Let's consider the New Testament portion of "The Message," by Eugene Peterson. And let's get real: the publishers of "The Message" treat it like a Bible translation. It is sold in the "Bibles"...
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The rendering of Mt. 6:10b in "The Message" merits a closer look. Where most translations have something like, "On earth as it is in heaven" -- involving no words more than six letters long, all...
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Waterrock wrote:The rendering of Mt. 6:10b in "The Message" merits a closer look. Where most translations have something like, "On earth as it is in heaven" -- involving no words more than six...
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Actually, "out with the trash to be burned" is an interesting turn of phrase. Gehenna was a trash dump.
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Like the sign in my favorite Chinese restaurant says, "We use no MSG."
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Further information on the weak paraphrase. The Message
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Waterrock wrote:To all the individuals who have endorsed "The Message" in one way or another (and a list, with some disputable descriptions of some endorsers, is at...
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77: I don't care for paraphrases in general, and I certainly don't care for the Message; but there is a big difference between Peterson's intent, and the liberties Peterson's publisher took with his...
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gconan wrote:Further information on the weak paraphrase. The Messagei think most would complain that it's TOO STRONG a paraphrase!
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amarillo wrote:i think most would complain that it's TOO STRONG a paraphrase! Not at all a laughing matter, a worse offense than any given for Message unacceptability is that KJVese is too impersonal...
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Before I resume the analysis of "The Message" and the ways in which Eugene Peterson has taken unjustifiable liberties with the text, I think it may be interesting to some readers -- especially in...
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Gruv,I don't intend to get side-tracked by this, but I don't see how anyone could possibly consider the archaic language used in the KJV as a worse offense than any offenses committed via the...
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77: Waterrock, I'd tend to agree with you here; the KJV is five centuries in the tooth; of course much of its language is now archaic, but, like Chaucer, or Shakespeare, it is still readable - and...
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Here I am resuming the critique of The Message from where I left off, near the beginning of Matthew chapter 7. Bear in mind that I have skipped over a lot of "flavoring" that Peterson added (such as...
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