Comments on: Indecent Bible? http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/05/21/indecent-bible Contagious Thoughts, Mutating as Needed Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:07:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Scooper http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/05/21/indecent-bible/comment-page-1#comment-74931 Scooper Thu, 24 May 2007 04:01:55 +0000 http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/05/21/indecent-bible/#comment-74931 The Bible is so old that declaring parts of it indecent by somebody's modern standards is ridiculous (and anachronistic). Even more ridiculous is trying to redact out the "bad" parts. One of the things I love about the Bible is that it faithfully records a people's struggle to be The People of God - so faithfully that not only are their mistakes and misunderstandings left in, so are their attempts to cover them up. I'm particularly thinking of the history in Chronicles which is repeated in a cleaned-up version in Kings. Of course, some things get covered up by translation: Most of the New Testament was written in koine (i.e., "pidgin") Greek. We read, "What am I to you?" where a literal rendering would be "What me you?" Our Bible is not perfect. But neither our we. Therefore the Bible's imperfection suits us perfectly. It is a piece of God's Truth, and makes us look foolish when we lie about how perfect it is. The Bible is so old that declaring parts of it indecent by somebody’s modern standards is ridiculous (and anachronistic). Even more ridiculous is trying to redact out the “bad” parts. One of the things I love about the Bible is that it faithfully records a people’s struggle to be The People of God – so faithfully that not only are their mistakes and misunderstandings left in, so are their attempts to cover them up. I’m particularly thinking of the history in Chronicles which is repeated in a cleaned-up version in Kings.

Of course, some things get covered up by translation: Most of the New Testament was written in koine (i.e., “pidgin”) Greek. We read, “What am I to you?” where a literal rendering would be “What me you?”

Our Bible is not perfect. But neither our we. Therefore the Bible’s imperfection suits us perfectly. It is a piece of God’s Truth, and makes us look foolish when we lie about how perfect it is.

]]> By: Gerald http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/05/21/indecent-bible/comment-page-1#comment-74880 Gerald Tue, 22 May 2007 17:52:34 +0000 http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/05/21/indecent-bible/#comment-74880 What with the long history of editing behind the current Bible, I'd say lets just go for that Gideon's version with Psalms, Proverbs, and the New Testament books. Much more humane. What with the long history of editing behind the current Bible, I’d say lets just go for that Gideon’s version with Psalms, Proverbs, and the New Testament books. Much more humane.

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