Difference between revisions of "The Message"
(sometimes refreshing, but on balance liberal; examples provided) |
(better than NIV with respect to unborn children) |
||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
For example, the famous line from Psalm 23 "The Lord is shepherd, there is nothing I shall want" is translated in ''The Message'' as "God, my shepherd! I don't need a thing."<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/index.php?action=getVersionInfo&vid=65</ref> | For example, the famous line from Psalm 23 "The Lord is shepherd, there is nothing I shall want" is translated in ''The Message'' as "God, my shepherd! I don't need a thing."<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/index.php?action=getVersionInfo&vid=65</ref> | ||
| − | Some of its translated verses can be refreshing, but on balance it is a [[liberal]] rendition. On the refreshing side, it translates silent aftermath of the Apostles' argument about which of them was the greatest as "the silence was deafening." But an illustration of its liberal bias can be found in the all-important John 3:16: "... by believing in him anyone can have a whole and lasting life" (rather than "eternal life"). | + | Some of its translated verses can be refreshing, but on balance it is a [[liberal]] rendition. On the refreshing side, it translates silent aftermath of the Apostles' argument about which of them was the greatest as "the silence was deafening." The Message is more [[conservative]] than the [[NIV]] with respect to describing the unborn child, as in Romans 9:10.<ref>See [[Disputed Bible Translations]].</ref> But an illustration of its liberal bias can be found in the all-important John 3:16: "... by believing in him anyone can have a whole and lasting life" (rather than "eternal life"). |
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 00:20, October 21, 2009
The Message is a modern translation of the Holy Bible created by Pastor Eugene Peterson. The purpose of the translation was to capture what Peterson calls the "vitality and directness that I sensed as I read and studied the New Testament in its original Greek." Seeking to translate the Bible in a way that would read to English speakers as it would have read to Greek speakers, he wrote much of it in an informal fashion.[1]
For example, the famous line from Psalm 23 "The Lord is shepherd, there is nothing I shall want" is translated in The Message as "God, my shepherd! I don't need a thing."[2]
Some of its translated verses can be refreshing, but on balance it is a liberal rendition. On the refreshing side, it translates silent aftermath of the Apostles' argument about which of them was the greatest as "the silence was deafening." The Message is more conservative than the NIV with respect to describing the unborn child, as in Romans 9:10.[3] But an illustration of its liberal bias can be found in the all-important John 3:16: "... by believing in him anyone can have a whole and lasting life" (rather than "eternal life").
References
| |||||||||||||||||