What do Christians think of this project to rewrite the Bible to reflect "conservative" values?

I read about this in Yahoo News and had to chuckle. There have been several attempts to "modernize" the Bible to be more appealing to the new generation. All have fallen flat, though they enjoyed a brief popularity thanks to the publicity surrounding the attempt. People are naturally curious.

As it is, there are a lot of differing interpretations and no matter how one looks at it, any translation reflects the thinking of those who are doing the translation. After all, a translation isn't as simple as translating each word from one language to another and that has problems of its own. A translation takes the concepts (interpretation) in one language and conveys that same concept in the target language. The problem is that in order to understand the concept, one must be the original author and they're all long dead. Not only that, but we are working from manuscripts and in many cases, translations themselves - certainly copies and not originals, so we don't know what was originally written or if something was added to complete a thought or help others understand what the reviser was thinking.

People will look at it, and likely reject it for what it is -- an interpretation, and not a serious translation, which would hold to the original ideals as the translators understood them.

The Bible already reflects Conservative values. Rewriting it would be a waste of time. There is also someone trying to come out with a "genderless" more "politically correct" Bible. That too is stupid. Politically Correct and Bible in the same statement is an oxymoron.

People have been "rewriting" scripture and reinterpreting it for centuries.

People ALWAYS pick and choose what they want from scripture to validate the beliefs they ALREADY have.

Christianity, for more than 16 centuries, sanctioned the institution of slavery. They used the following verses (in part) to validate this belief:

"Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ. (Ephesians 6:5)

"Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed. If your master is a Christian, that is no excuse for being disrespectful. You should work all the harder because you are helping another believer by your efforts. Teach these truths, Timothy, and encourage everyone to obey them. (1 Timothy 6:1-2)

"Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only while being watched in order to please them, but with a sincere heart, fearing the Lord." (Colossians 3:22)

Anyone who states they "follow the entire Bible" are either totally deluded or lying.

I think it is wrong because future generations will think that those words are the original words. Also in maybe a hundred years they will make a new version based on this new biased Bible and give one thousand years of this process repeated and you have a completely different message. An example of the telephone game.

It's been done many times before. You think the Bible now isn't edited? It's the original word for word text from 2009 years ago? Same **** different Millenium.

The NT has been rewritten many times throughout its history, most of them were within the first 400 years. That is how the current Jesus myth developed. Today, some think these are the actual words of Jesus and actual witnesses wrote them. A study of the socio-political conditions of those times reveals what really happened.

Rev. Neil

An intentional political bias applied to bible translation. I agree with "abomination".

It's one thing for someone like King James - who had political motives - to have the bible translated by experts, demanding that they add no commentary. It's another to ***translate*** with the intention of supporting a political agenda. As far as I know, this is a first.

Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/

Abomination. The only thing the Bible should reflect is the Word of God. If one idea is changed, it is no longer God's Word. All Satan did in the garden with Eve was add 1 word to what God said, and that got us in the mess we are in today.

I think it is brain dead, like the people undertaking it. Even conservative evangelicals are going to have trouble taking it seriously.

It's idiotic! Whose "conservative" values? There are various degrees of conservatism, too! Conservative, ultra conservative, etc.