No need to re-write NT for the Christians

paarsurrey · #1 by **paarsurrey** » Jan 24, 2012 12:27 am

No need to re-write NT for the Christians, in my opinion.

One can renovate the ancient writings or purify them to make them real from the mythical; people could as much benefit from it or even a lot more than from the re-written ones.

Animavore · #2 by **Animavore** » Jan 24, 2012 12:30 am

Ok. Thanks for that.

HomerJay · #3 by **HomerJay** » Jan 24, 2012 9:12 am

paarsurrey wrote:No need to re-write NT for the Christians, in my opinion.

One can renovate the ancient writings or purify them to make them real from the mythical; people could as much benefit from it or even a lot more than from the re-written ones.

That's because you're a muslim, you think you've got the updated OT.

In fact part of the reason Islam is such an ugly ideology is because it married the strict convenants of the OT with Paul's NT universalism. Paul realised the OT could not be universal.

So whereas the jews thought they suffered more than most because they were Chosen, Islam makes us all Chosen and therefore all suffering this hideous OT god.

Any religion based on the vicious, unreasonable OT god is going to be shit, Islam is by far the shitiest.

Scot Dutchy · #4 by **Scot Dutchy** » Jan 24, 2012 9:17 am

If they renovated the koran they would end up with this: "". In other words F all because that is how much sence is in it.

Mind you that goes for NT and any other mythical books.

Ihavenofingerprints · #5 by **Ihavenofingerprints** » Jan 24, 2012 9:26 am

paarsurrey wrote:No need to re-write NT for the Christians, in my opinion.

One can renovate the ancient writings or purify them to make them real from the mythical; people could as much benefit from it or even a lot more than from the re-written ones.

Point well made. I'd go as far to say that anyone who attempts to re-write the NT is an idiot for trying.

Scot Dutchy · #6 by **Scot Dutchy** » Jan 24, 2012 9:31 am

Ihavenofingerprints wrote:
paarsurrey wrote:No need to re-write NT for the Christians, in my opinion.

One can renovate the ancient writings or purify them to make them real from the mythical; people could as much benefit from it or even a lot more than from the re-written ones.

Point well made. I'd go as far to say that anyone who attempts to re-write the NT is an idiot for trying.

A waste of time. Why rewrite fairy stories?

Ihavenofingerprints · #7 by **Ihavenofingerprints** » Jan 24, 2012 9:47 am

Scot Dutchy wrote:
Ihavenofingerprints wrote:
paarsurrey wrote:No need to re-write NT for the Christians, in my opinion.

One can renovate the ancient writings or purify them to make them real from the mythical; people could as much benefit from it or even a lot more than from the re-written ones.

Point well made. I'd go as far to say that anyone who attempts to re-write the NT is an idiot for trying.

A waste of time. Why rewrite fairy stories?

Change them to suit your political agenda. Attempt to enforce the holy-book's rules on the entire population. Theocracy ftw!

Xeno · #8 by **Xeno** » Jan 24, 2012 9:48 am

No need to clean the spark plugs in your goldfish, in my opinion.

Fenrir · #9 by **Fenrir** » Jan 24, 2012 10:04 am

It's already been done and renamed The Lord Of The Rings.

Will always be a work of fiction regardless.

Fallible · **#10** by **Fallible** » Jan 24, 2012 10:17 am

Xeno wrote:No need to clean the spark plugs in your goldfish, in my opinion.

Carton of orange juice. :nod:

Zwaarddijk · **#11** by **Zwaarddijk** » Jan 24, 2012 11:57 am

Ihavenofingerprints wrote:
paarsurrey wrote:No need to re-write NT for the Christians, in my opinion.

One can renovate the ancient writings or purify them to make them real from the mythical; people could as much benefit from it or even a lot more than from the re-written ones.

Point well made. I'd go as far to say that anyone who attempts to re-write the NT is an idiot for trying.

Alternatively, if you attempt to re-write the NT, you can get rich trying. (E.g. afaict, Kenneth N Taylor made a fair share of money from The Living Bible, a Bible translation that not only introduces an evangelical slant into the Bible. It was one of the best selling books of the 70s, and was pretty much a travesty as far as representing what the Bible says)

Truth in Translation: Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament (Jason BeDuhn) has this to say of the Living Bible:
"The Living Bible (LB), completed in 1967, is not a Bible translation at all, and it would not even be considered in this book were it not for its great popularity and widespread use among people who have no idea that they are not dealing with a legitimate Bible translation. ... It includes passages known to be not in the original parts of the books of the Bible. These additions have a theological slant that Taylor favors, and so he includes them despite the best textual evidence. He also freely omits from the Bible material he does not like, and adds interpolations of his own, theological statements that have no basis in the biblical text...

Taylor claims that his goal in the LB is "to say as exactly as possible what the writers of the Scriptures meant, and to say it simply, expanding where necessary for a clear understanding by the modern reader". "