After Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, he saw ‘‘the Spirit descending upon him like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, ‘Thou art my beloved Son; with thee I am well pleased”’ (Mark 1:10-11, Revised Standard Version).
Compare that with this new translation:
‘‘A pigeon flew down and perched on him. Jesus took this as a sign that God’s Spirit was with him. A voice from overhead was heard saying, ‘That’s my boy!”’
There are many such chatty or doctrinally denuded passages in ‘‘Good as New: A Radical Retelling of the Scriptures” (O Books), an exceedingly loose New Testament paraphrase by Britain’s John Henson, a fundamentalist-hating Baptist. [Source]
I have covered the "Good as New" Bible in the past but I didn’t see the above quote before and that is pretty whacked.
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A fundamentalist-hating Baptist? Isn’t that like blasphemy or something?
A bird pooped on my shoulder once. Was that a sign from God? Or was God with Jesus but not me because the bird didn’t leave a mark on Him? Maybe bird droppings are the ‘Good Snooze’ symbol of God smiting me down! To which (in keeping with the spirit of the translation) I lament, ‘Bummer!’
I just might buy that new bible just to get a kick out of it 🙂
That would be Walter Pidgeon, right?