Here's another one.........

[Beth O]

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THE GREEN BIBLE (Friday Church News Notes, February 29, 2008,
www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The Green
Bible, the first environmentally-themed Bible, is scheduled for
publication by HarperOne in the fall of this year. Based on the New
Revised Standard Version, The Green Bible will use green ink to
highlight passages that deal with the environment (which won't
require much green ink!) and will feature commentaries by
environmentalists and a "green trail guide" of
environmentalist-thinking Christian leaders through history. Mark
Tauber, vice president of HarperOne, says: "Going green has become a
top concern among many Christians as they begin to see protecting all
of creation as a biblical obligation. Our Green Bible offers them a
new lens to identify how caring for creation comes right out of the
Scriptures" (Christian Retailing Newsletter, Dec. 3, 2007). At the
New Baptist Covenant Celebration in Atlanta in January former
Vice-President Al Gore was presented with a Green Bible, but it only
had a green cover and even Al will have to wait until the fall to get
a "real" Green Bible. The Bible does not support the modern
environmentalist movement and its frenzy over "global warming."
Bible-believing Christians are not the polluters of the earth and we
appreciate clean water and healthy air as much as anyone, but we also
know that the earth is under God's curse because of man's fall and is
destined to be burned up and replaced. That is the "global warming"
we need to be most concerned about. We are not going to save the
earth, but by God's grace we can seek to save souls before it is too
late. "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men
count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that
any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the
day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the
heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall
melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein
shall be burned up" (2 Peter 3:9-10).

[medbiller777]

I prefer my Bible with the words of Christ in red...since he was the one that shed his blood for me.:thumb

[blitzkreig]

I prefer my Bible with the words of Christ in red...since he was the one that shed his blood for me.:thumbI am piqued recently about the way that the "red letter" versions have mislead people. And now even GREEN ... ?

Sorry ...

FWIW there is nothing more "special" about the earth bound ... old testament things Jesus might have said (anything before the cross of course is of the "old" covenant) ... even if they are words of Jesus in the flesh ... than something He might have said later on.

(Because Jesus said that the 12 couldn't bear to hear it at the time) to His Church (us ... you and me not Israel who rejected Him) ... even long after His ascension into Glory ... either by direct revelation by appearing to Paul ... or even by way of the Holy Spirit.

The red letters are very very misleading ... Lord Jesus Christ said it all. Not just pieces parts some printer has chosen to make in different letter colors.

:preach

[seekingtruth1]

Actually many Christaisn and really many people hav enot always had any thoughts for teh environment. I think that the environmental movemnet is becoming a religion and that is unacceptable. i think this Bibles green letters are silly and not THE essential messag eof the bible, but I would buy a Bible I knew had been recycled and produced resposibly over those that had not.....not everything about the movement is bad...its made me more aware of my impact etc....I think there is a balance....I do not like companies that pollute and dump chemicals into our water and I think thsi movement has helped raise awareness. I do think this movement is being USED to control people - ex. carbon based taxes etc....and offsetting and therefore is has radical and unbiblical elemenst to it.

[Tom in TN]

I'm reminded of Romans 1:
"21": Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

"22": Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

"23": And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

"24": Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

"25": Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.