New NIV “was written, it seems, by cowards for cowards” says Voice of the Martyrs Director
In the May 2011 print edition of Voice of the Martyrs, Director Tom White states, “I do not need to be shielded by a miserably comfortable religion, existing in what I call a numbed down Christianity. One current example of this dangerous numbing down of the Christian faith is the 2011 NIV Bible. It was written, it seems, by cowards for cowards. In Job, Amos, Psalms, Isaiah and Jeremiah, the translators have removed all 16 references to our greatest motive for evangelizing–the “shadow of death”–and replaced the phrase with “darkness.” [1]
Mr. White continues, “The words ‘shadow of death’ in the Old Testament are from the Hebrew word ’Tsalmaveth,’ which literally means the ‘grave’ or figuratively, ‘calamity.’ The grave has been artfully removed. Now Job in his struggles never has to face death. He only faces some kind of internal ‘darkness.’ Today he could simply get a prescription to avoid this challenge.” [2]
Reading Mr. White’s comments, two missionaries back from Africa referred to this verse from Revelation: But the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
Is the famine here? The famine not of bread and water but of the very Word of God? (Amos 8:11) It is not just The Message, or the new (?) NIV. This will continue. Here you can read yet another example of what is being done: APPRISING.ORG
Here, too, is Eric Barger warning what the new (?) NIV is all about: READ
And there is always The Message, with its omission of Scriptures concerning homosexuality as sin and its God of green hope: READ
Endnotes:
1. Voice of the Martyrs May 2011, From The Director, pg. 2, “Taking the Bull by the Horns,” by Tom White
2. Ibid., pg. 2
Mr. White continues, “The words ‘shadow of death’ in the Old Testament are from the Hebrew word ’Tsalmaveth,’ which literally means the ‘grave’ or figuratively, ‘calamity.’ The grave has been artfully removed. Now Job in his struggles never has to face death. He only faces some kind of internal ‘darkness.’ Today he could simply get a prescription to avoid this challenge.” [2]
Reading Mr. White’s comments, two missionaries back from Africa referred to this verse from Revelation: But the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
Is the famine here? The famine not of bread and water but of the very Word of God? (Amos 8:11) It is not just The Message, or the new (?) NIV. This will continue. Here you can read yet another example of what is being done: APPRISING.ORG
Here, too, is Eric Barger warning what the new (?) NIV is all about: READ
And there is always The Message, with its omission of Scriptures concerning homosexuality as sin and its God of green hope: READ
Endnotes:
1. Voice of the Martyrs May 2011, From The Director, pg. 2, “Taking the Bull by the Horns,” by Tom White
2. Ibid., pg. 2
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