I like the NIV for its readability, the NASB for its accuracy and the KJV, though seldom read, because that is the Bible I memorized out of when I was younger. Personally do NOT care for THE MESSAGE. It sounds too little like a Bible. ;)
You know from the cult of the World Church of God or a branch thereof. The "theology" you are espousing in your posts. Mr. (gone-but-he-doesn't-know-where-because-he-thinks's-he-is-God) Herbert W. Armstrong.