My general instinct is to say, "We need more 'heretics' like this cat." Am I missing something here? I still haven't heard any proponent of "The Message" say that it replaces any other Bible, or the traditional tools and methods of exegesis.
[Omitted paragraph stating that Sola Scriptura is wrong anyway, Holy Mother Church, yadda, yadda...]
He has always seemed like my kind of Reformed. The thing is probably a master-work of pastoral theology, for all I know. Now I have to read the blessed thing, to find out whether this is another irrational vendetta (which it likely is, with all due respect).
Anybody read "The Message," and want to comment?
Please Note: I use the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition, 1st edition, for study. In devotion (my feeble attempts at "lectio divina") I use the lectionary of the United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops, which is from the New American Bible. I figure that since it is supposed to be a time of Scripture-guided prayer, numerous gripes with that translation can wait. I can always look up the text in the Greek/Hebrew/Latin if it's really bad. I digress.
[Omitted paragraph stating that Sola Scriptura is wrong anyway, Holy Mother Church, yadda, yadda...]
He has always seemed like my kind of Reformed. The thing is probably a master-work of pastoral theology, for all I know. Now I have to read the blessed thing, to find out whether this is another irrational vendetta (which it likely is, with all due respect).
Anybody read "The Message," and want to comment?
Please Note: I use the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition, 1st edition, for study. In devotion (my feeble attempts at "lectio divina") I use the lectionary of the United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops, which is from the New American Bible. I figure that since it is supposed to be a time of Scripture-guided prayer, numerous gripes with that translation can wait. I can always look up the text in the Greek/Hebrew/Latin if it's really bad. I digress.
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