The Voice™ is the product of the best minds in this emerging generation of Christian leaders. Together they are helping young people fall in love with the Scriptures. Instead of confining God’s Word in the framework of biblical criticism, The Voice™ highlights the beauty of God’s communication to His people. In The Voice™, the voice of God is heard as clearly as when He first revealed His truth. This is the first-ever complete New Testament in The Voice™ translation. Writers include Chris Seay, Lauren Winner, Brian McLaren, Greg Garrett, David B. Capes, and others.
Features include:
Bronze, highlighted text
Screenplay-like format, ideal for public readings and group studies
Personally, I find this quite funny. It’s funny because if one takes this argument seriously, that a different scriptural interpretation is bad ju-ju, then we should all be theologically aligned with the Roman Catholic Church, if not 1st Century Judaism.
Closing the comments on this one, so as to direct you to Christian’s blog.
I’m not emergent by an stretch of the imagination. I think.
I do, however, like what he has said – if we simply rely upon what our parents in the faith told us without investigating it, shouldn’t we all head back to 16th century Rome?
Oh, and he said some other things you should really read as well with a few useful links too.
For some, words such as baptism, justification/justified, and even Christ are words which are sacrosanct to a biblical translation. Part of the criticism leveled at other translations, such as the NLT and God’s Word is that they remove these words. If you are needing these words, The Voice may not be the translation for you.
Note, that since the translation style of The Voice is different from others, I felt it unfair to compare it with others; however, you can use the hyperlinked Scripture references to do you own comparison.
The Voice™ is the product of the best minds in this emerging generation of Christian leaders. Together they are helping young people fall in love with the Scriptures. Instead of confining God’s Word in the framework of biblical criticism, The Voice™ highlights the beauty of God’s communication to His people. In The Voice™, the voice of God is heard as clearly as when He first revealed His truth. This is the first-ever complete New Testament in The Voice™ translation. Writers include Chris Seay, Lauren Winner, Brian McLaren, Greg Garrett, David B. Capes, and others.
The purpose of the translation s the key to understanding the translation itself. I have found that many who disagree with the translation fail to understand the purpose of the translation itself. We should judge first the purpose of the translation and then the merits of the translation based on that purpose.
When Dan Kimball began writing his book, The Emerging Church some eight years ago, the term “emerging” had a meaning completely different from how many would define it today.
The first to use the term in writing in the United States, Kimball “got into the whole emerging church world” because he wanted to see “lost” people come to a saving knowledge of Jesus.
Thanks to Fr. Stephen for this tip, which has helped to provide fodder for a few other posts this week. Blame him if you don’t like them.
Nathan Busenitz has posted on the growing trend among some in the Emergent Church to ‘get back to the roots of Christianity.’ I have to wonder if they would feel the same way if they read either Justin or Pliny the Younger’s account of the early Christian worship service:
Mark Driscoll is the co-founder and preaching pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington, he co-founded the Acts 29 Network, and has contributed to the “Faith and Values” section of the Seattle Times. He helped start The Resurgence, a repository of missional theology resources. For some good insight on Mark, here and here. The best that I can figure is that Mark is an emergent with doctrine (Calvinism of sorts) but could care less about the life of the person (wiki).
Below is the current article making the rounds, but I warn you, it does have some rough language at the start:
I guess Ray Comfort (is Kirk soon to follow?) is finding comfort at the Word of Faithers.
Something I didn’t know about Luther. One has to remember that Luther and others were reformers, meaning that essentially they saw nothing wrong with Rome. Shame that. From the same site, here.
A sick thought indeed, but it happens more than you think. What a shame that some political leaders in this country have called it a religion of peace. Muslims care more about postcards then children, it seems.
He’s right, you know, I have never heard it like that! When you begin to put the pieces together concerning Iran’s leader, you understand who he thinks he is. And when you do, you have to realize what he thinks he has to do.
Ben Witherington is attacking a book that attacks, among other things, Catholics and show us several things. First, bad scholarship will undermine even the strongest truth, and second, that just because you attack Catholics, it does not make your weapons right. It is going to be a multi-part series, so stay tuned to it.
How nice it is to be reminded that we (Americans) don’t know everything, but at I know what rotates around the Earth.
Obviously Obama didn’t read my post before he did this.
I have been following this developing story for a long time. It has taken a while to get this far, but then again… they have waited about 2000 years since the last temple.
