Posted by PS on November 18, 2002 at 23:30:20:
In Reply to: Re: About Translations posted by kat on November 18, 2002 at 21:57:13:
: Oh, I almost missed this, yes i understand what you're saying here, it's helpful and I wouldn't ever read The Message bible with an intent to study in a scholarly fashion. I can see you wouldn't waste your time with it and that's fine, but I get a kick out of some of the contemporary coloquialiams, they crack me up. Usually I don't read it alone, I have a KJV and an NIV packed with footnotes. Actually you are being too nice, I suspect you are protecting my feelings, but really, you owe it to me to tellme what you really think. If you said, "The Message Bible and any other Paraphrase is a bunch of steadily simmered horse manure and I wouldn't give it to my worst enemy if he were starving for the word of God." I probably would not read it so much anymore.
: : )
: -kat
Well, actually I wasn't being euphemistic at all; I was giving it to you straight. :-)
Message Bible is cool to read, just not for study or theology or doctrine.