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Yes it does.
John 3:16-18 The Message
"This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.
Wow, so The Message can do a better job than the KJV, even though it distorts the TRUTH.
Well, now that you posted this:Anyone care to dispute that?
KJV:You are right. Adversaries of The Message are discouragers.
The truth is there, but because the language is modern, it generates fears in those who feel secure in the language of the Bibles we grew up with containing archaic language.
Paraphrased versions of the Word of God are only doing what we do every day as believers--we paraphrase the truth of God with our lips and our lives before a starving, thirsting world.
But they miss that truth being pharisaic about the whole thing.
Anyone care to dispute that?
Well, now that you posted this:
"God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was."
The problem I would have with this is that this is supposed to be the paraphrased version of Jesus saying that He did not come to condemn the world, period, end of discussion. "merely to point an accusing finger" doesn't quite do the job of that and one could easily get the impression that as Jesus is saving the world, He is also condemning it as well, and that simply isn't true.
This is the reason why I don't like paraphrased versions anymore. I however wont condemn anyone for reading them either.
Jesus died for those who are not as 'learned' as others too. Why can't they have a bible that can be clearly understood?
Many of the paraphrased versions are reasonable to a degree. But, The Message isn’t in the same league as them, because of the extreme deletions, changing words, and complete lose of sin and repentance.
For just an example, the word "Lord" appears over 7,970 times in the KJV and is the 14th ranked word used in the KJV. But, in The Message the word "Lord" appears ONLY 71 times and is 1087th rank word used in The Message.
The phrases “Lord Jesus” and “Lord Jesus Christ” occur 118 times and 84 times respectively in the KJV. The phrases DON’T appear in The Message whatsoever, which is an outright denial of our “Lord Jesus Christ”, and
has NEVER occurred in ANY other translation.
Now, let’s be honest and clarify one of the most important issues of this watered-down book that couldn’t be labelled as a paraphrase of His Inspired Word, because of distortions, misrepresentation, deletions and additions that have no similar context of the Greek or Hebrew, and to completely delete all references to our Lord Jesus Christ is no accident.
The issues that is on the altar, is that it is referred to as “the Bible” by Rick Warren in his “Purpose Driven Life”, when in fact The Message isn’t “the Bible”, it’s only a book, because it is a deliberate and intentional “doctrinal” decision by Eugene Peterson to remove our Lord Jesus Christ.
For those who claim that The Message is a good teaching book, then please explain why those anomalies that I have exposed above are so?
Be blessed in Jesus’ Name.
He nor I said anything about which version does a better job Elijah2, please stop with putting words into peoples mouths so just to win an arguement. It is what it is, If redwood found Jesus through reading the Message Bible then God used it as a tool just as he uses the KJV as a tool if someone finds Jesus through reading it.
For me, God used The Good News Bible to tug on my heart strings to the point that I fell to my knees and repented and was born again.
You want to talk about milk and meat, I would be inclined to agree with you out of personal preference that literal translations are the way to go for meat, but the milk can come from other sources, like the Message or Good News bibles.
I thought HE died for our sins.
it a desecration of HIS INSPIRED WORD, that has distorted, minconceived, deleted from, ommitted, and added to TRUE words of His Message.
Yes he did die for sins...he died for the sins of the unlearned too.
That may be your experience but it's not ours. I've always read both the KJV and the message and found that they complimented each other quite well. If you don't then you don't have to read the message if you don't want to, that is fine. Many people have come to the truth through the message and as they have grown in Christ have graduated onto other versions.
Does that mean that when you are explaining or teaching the Word of God in your own words, rather than spouting Scripture verbatim that you are desecrating it, too?
She didn't say that He didn't. I think what she's trying to tell you is to step out of the box you have placed yourself in and try and look at the whole picture.
We all need to eventually be fed meat, but before we get to having meat on our plate every day, milk should be the standard diet.
People who aren't as learned as you may reject the meat because the milk hasn't had time to digest. And you shouldn't look down on people who are trying to digest the milk.
Romans 14:1-3, Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. the man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him.
Romans 14:13, Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way.
I hope my use of the NIV doesn't cause anyone to judge and condemn me.
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