Kalled said:
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But it does help to get one man's interpretation of the Bible.

Yep that's a big problem with the Message right there. The Message is from just ONE man's interpretation alone. My understanding is that Eugene Petersen did not work with a committee or any other people in putting it together. That was a big red flag when I started hearing things about the Message.
Then I ran into it at my church. Oh I've probably told you this story somewhere, can't remember, but a couple of years ago at my church they had Psalm 8 up on the screen that the congregation was to read together out loud. This is what we were to read from the Message:

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Psalm 8
A David psalm
1GOD, brilliant Lord, yours is a household name.
2Nursing infants gurgle choruses about you;
toddlers shout the songs
That drown out enemy talk,
and silence atheist babble.

3I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous,
your handmade sky-jewelry,
Moon and stars mounted in their settings.
4Then I look at my micro-self and wonder,
Why do you bother with us?
Why take a second look our way?
5Yet we've so narrowly missed being gods,
bright with Eden's dawn light.
6You put us in charge of your handcrafted world,
repeated to us your Genesis-charge,
7Made us lords of sheep and cattle,
even animals out in the wild,
8Birds flying and fish swimming,
whales singing in the ocean deeps.
9GOD, brilliant Lord,
your name echoes around the world.

Here it is in the NASB
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1O LORD, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!
2 From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.
3When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;
4What is man that You take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him?
5Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You crown him with glory and majesty!
6You make him to rule over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
7All sheep and oxen,
And also the beasts of the field,
8The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
9O LORD, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth!

That was my first introduction to the Message. I emailed the pastor about it and I have never seen or heard the Message used again up front, so that was good.

The sad thing is that this might be "entertaining" like you say to someone like us who knows the difference, but there are too many out there I'm afraid who don't see the differences at all.

I've pretty much used NIV for most of my Christian life. In InterVarsity I was told NIV was the best translation.
I didn't understand about dynamic equivalence until coming here to this site. How come they didn't tell me that or anyone else?? That really has been eye-opening to me.
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Last edited by janean; Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:13 PM.