The Message Bible

[lisaann]

Ok, we have a youth leader who thinks this Bible is the best thing since sliced bread. :rolleyes He is also tripping merrily down the Emergent path. As a fellow youth leader I am in a position to hopefully help direct him differently.

I need solid, concrete problems with "The Message" to bring to his attention. I am not that familiar with it personally but I know it is widely accepted in emergent circles.

[broken]

lisaann, please check this site:

http://www.crossroad.to/Bible_studies/Message.html

It offers very clear, concrete material for you to study.

[FaithContender]

It makes Jesus sound like a Hippie.:tsk

[Ironguild]

Haha back in 1995 when I was young 18yr old, I was working at a Campus Crusade for Christ conference hotel here in SoCal. Well, the bookstore carried "The Message". I requested a meeting with the director of the Center, and when we met I showed him the terrible and verging on blasphemous transliterations in that book, and a week later he pulled it from the conference center book store!:thumb

That book is such a deception of distorted words, that whenever I come across it, it literally makes me ill and my stomach knots up at how horribly that book has changed the Word of God. Also, it sounds like the author is speaking to 4 year olds, I don't know why any adult would even consider opening that bilge.

[susanb]

It befuddles me why any pastor or Christian uses The Message as if it was the Bible. It is clearly marked by Eugene Peterson in the front of the book. How ever could anyone accidentally believe that the book is anything but man's twisted wisdom?

[lisaann]

lisaann, please check this site:

http://www.crossroad.to/Bible_studies/Message.html

It offers very clear, concrete material for you to study.

:thumb that's just the sort of thing I was looking for. :hat

[Tom in TN]

Just go read Ephesians chapter 6 from any "real" translation and then read the message...why would any reference to the Whole Armour of God be left out, I wonder???

Possibly because the devil wants us to be defenseless???

[fsdinc]

Hello Everyone,

Here's a link to a good article exposing the Message:


The Message Bible: Mystic Mess Eugene Peterson's Bible The Message contains the most blatant New Age mysticism ever published in a Bible......

http://www.av1611.org/kjv/mess_bible.html

[KBKMNN]

It befuddles me why any pastor or Christian uses The Message as if it was the Bible. It is clearly marked by Eugene Peterson in the front of the book. How ever could anyone accidentally believe that the book is anything but man's twisted wisdom?

That's because some of us (like myself) didn't know just how wrong Peterson is. Now that I've read about the message and so forth, I get ill thinking about how I read it. Before I studied up on him, I didn't know who Eugene Peterson was and I was fooled into believing that I was reading an easier to comprehend version of the bible. I was really wanting to read my bible more and understand it more. Now I know better, but your comment still hurts a bit. I feel like I am being talked down to because I didn't know. :ohno

[saint-in-training]

No, I felt the same way when I found out some information about the NIV. I was thrilled that there was a bible that was easier to read. But then I found out there is a whole verse missing. And not to mention there was a homosexual who was helping with something. She said she read and made notations, etc. and gave it back. How much was changed just because of that?! Also, someone explained to me that the NIV was adapted in 1973. Right after the sexual revolution 1969. It just begs to be heard that the book is not going to be the same when people who are editing are people affected by the changes that have come about in the world at that time. And I would like to also say get a copy of the KJV and read the letter they publish in it that they gave to King James when they presented him the finished product. Very interesting. Things were a lot different back then.