Tag: Bibles

“It has to be the King James version, of course. Modern translations break the spell as surely as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.” – Richard Dawkins

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…early editions [of the King James Bible] were vast tomes, to be placed on a lectern – unlike the tiny Tyndale Bible, made pocket-sized because it was contraband, banned by the church. When it comes to Bibles, size matters.

If you are using the new NIV this year you may want to adjust the script slightly. The translators have done away with the word ‘inn’ in Luke 2:7 and replaced it with ‘guest room.’ Perhaps other translators will decide to follow.

Christianity is paying an enormous price for its numbers who fixate on the few scriptural passages that address sexual behavior in an ancient, oppressively patriarchal culture. This fixation diminishes Christ’s life. It erodes the moral authority of Christianity, and that in turn, does harm to a wider society that needs all the moral authority it can get.

Ethel Ware Carter is tweeting the Bible 140 characters at a time

Designer Michael Paukner has created a

Homosexuality is abomination. The Christian Right says so all the time, and non-religious LGBT activists say it too, to relegate religion to humanity’s dustheap. After all, isn’t that what it says in the Bible? . . . No.

If one thing seems clear from all the scholarship, though, it’s that Paul’s divine Christ came first, and Jesus the wise rabbi came later. This fixed, steady twoness at the heart of the Christian story can’t be wished away by liberal hope any more than it could be resolved by theological hair-splitting. Its intractability is part of the intoxication of belief.

According to Jesus Seminar has moved its headquarters to

…for many Christians, whether liberal or conservative, Bible study is primarily about reinforcing beliefs already held for reasons other than biblical authority. If it turns out that the Bible appears to teach something that runs against the grain of our convictions, we find ways to reject its message or its messenger.