Comments on: The Conservative Bible Project

By: Cathi-Lyn Dyck

Cathi-Lyn Dyck — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:07:56 +0000

My word, this is hilarious if it weren’t rather sad…as you said at CT, hard to believe this is for real. Wow.

By: Crimson Wife

Crimson Wife — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:18:51 +0000

Where is the evidence that the deleted verses are inauthentic? Is it because the Gospels of St. Luke and St. John were written down after the other two Gospels? By that logic, we should eliminate EVERY story mentioned by St. Luke and/or St. John and not by the other two Evangelists. Idiotic…

By: JJ Ross

JJ Ross — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:50:58 +0000

We were just talking about the Jefferson Bible the other day! No supernatural events, including miracles, the virgin birth and the resurrection. So I doubt conservative dominionists will be going for that, don’t you?

By: Summer

Summer — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:54:52 +0000

As many times as this has already happened in history, I’m really not surprised. After all, the bible we have today is the biased translation of the people who edited it before.

By: Sisterlisa

Sisterlisa — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:11:42 +0000

I have mixed feelings about this. I wonder what they mean about studying the history of the KJBible. Do they mean how King James added a homosexual reference to it (two men shall be in one bed…) or perhaps a pagan holiday where it should say “passover”? I wonder if they plan to study what kind of life King James lived as well. When I study the Greek it sure sheds light on a lot. We really need to trust His Holy Spirit to speak his truth to us, he never lies. When he said His Word shall never pass away, HE is the Word and He will never pass away. The written word just keeps getting more and more corrupted. I wonder what they think of the Complete Jewish Bible and how it took out several key verses about grace and replaced them with living by the Torah.

By: Dana Hanley

Dana Hanley — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:42:28 +0000

Yeah, Conservapedia had the same general effect on me when it went up. But it was started by Andrew Schlafly of Eagle Forum. And I don’t mind those bibles…they don’t fundamentally change the text. We have the Patriot Bible, which I felt a little strange about when I got it but it was on clearance and I needed something that could be marked heavily while I teach my son to read. The little stories they’ve included actually are interesting, but they don’t modify the text itself to fit their interpretation.

By: CircleReader

CircleReader — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:31:49 +0000

Y'know, I was chuckling at first glance on this. A site called "Conservapedia" does Bible translation? Looks like some staffers from The Onion have been reading Orwell again... But I'm starting to suspect that this is not, in fact, actually a parody (or rather, not an intentional one). Which is disturbing. "Specialty" Bibles, though, have been a staple of American culture for nearly as long as we've been a nation. If conservatives want a Bible of their own, they could try the Jefferson Bible. The Patriot Bible, Green Bible, Scofield Study Bible, The Message - there are a lot of options. Maybe Scot McKnight could help us find an appropriate translation tribe.

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:15:00 +0000

But Mrs. C, didn't you know that all that stood between teens and a deep, renewing faith was the packaging of the New Testament? And my thoughts exactly, Julie. The thing I thought funny is that they are going into it announcing their bias and intent to change everything to fit their bias. Translation bias isn't generally so overt and intentional. Like Shane on Caffeinated Thoughts said it's "like the Jesus Seminar except run by conservatives who know nothing about Biblical translation & interpretation."

By: T F Stern

T F Stern — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:52:57 +0000

I’ll stick to my King James Version in English. I was given given a Living Bible and had to put it down when Abraham mad a deal with God; sorry, that just was a little to much for me.

Interesting topic, thanks for posting.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:14:47 +0000

Talk about your translation bias! This makes me think that we should all be noble searchers of the Scriptures… examining every translation to see if what is said is true. If I had more time, I would love to learn Hebrew and read the Old Testament in its original language and not worry about translating ancient ideas into English at all. After all, this is the book the Bereans were studying.

Mrs. C, I didn’t know anything about a magazine Bible… Weird!