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On CNN's 'Newsroom' this morning, host Carol Costello interviewed Professor David Capes, who has spent the last seven years working on 'The Voice,' a new translation of The Bible, which does not contain the words “Christ,” “angels,” or “apostle”.
Capes explained that the idea was “to translate everything, to give them the meaning of the text and to give them a sense of where the story, this great story of love and redemption is going.”
Capes said: “We wanted to give people a copy of the Bible they would not only want to own, but would want to read. Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones made the statement ‘I read the Bible sometimes, but I find it deadly boring.’ We wanted to give Keith a copy of the Bible, and others like Keith because there are a lot like him, give him a copy of the Bible that frankly he would want to read and he would not want to put down.”
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Keith Richards obviously doesn't understand 1 Corinthians 2:14:But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
This new translation will likely not inspire him with a desire to read the Bible any more than the King James did unless he turns to God and asks for God's Spirit to show him truth in God's word and reads it with a desire to follow it. Didn't the Good News Bible already put the Bible into simple, everyday man's language?
In the meantime, the increasing numbers of translations are only adding to the confusion, and it seems that anyone can make a new translation and modernize the Bible for today's reader. Is the Bible really that old-fashioned and out-dated that we need to keep doing this or is it more about changing the Bible to suit our tastes?
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