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hvn_nbr_2

(6,606 posts) Tue Jul 8, 2014, 09:04 PM Jul 2014

Anyone familiar with the "Recovery Version" of the Bible?

I got a card in the mail to get a free copy of the "Recovery Version" of the New Testament. I had never even heard of this one. Anyone know anything about it? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with "recovery" in the sense of "being in recovery from (whatever)". These free copies are distributed by a group called "Bibles for America" (www.bfa.org), which seems to be not the publishers/translators but a separate group.

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Anyone familiar with the "Recovery Version" of the Bible? (Original Post) hvn_nbr_2 Jul 2014 OP

Two reviews... TreasonousBastard Jul 2014 #1

Thanks for that. hvn_nbr_2 Jul 2014 #2

TreasonousBastard

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1. Two reviews...

Reply to hvn_nbr_2 (Original post)

Tue Jul 8, 2014, 09:20 PM

Jul 2014

http://www.bible-researcher.com/recovery-version.html

Basically says it's not such a bad translation

But...

http://www.apologeticsindex.org/r22.html

The Recovery Version of the Bible is published the Living Stream Ministry, the publishing arm of the Local Church which, theologically, is a cult of Christianity.

The Recovery Version is controversial in large part because of its extensive footnotes, which promote Local Church theology.

The Bible that the Local Church offers in the United States is called the Recovery Version [4] of the New Testament and is unique, both for its theology and for its massive doctrinal commentary, which exceeds the actual biblical text on many pages. Study note #5 for Revelation 2: 9 reads: "Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, as well as Judaism, fall into this category [opposing God], having become an organization of Satan as his tool to damage God's economy."
Source: Apologia Report, Volume 7: Number 3, January 28, 2002

hvn_nbr_2

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2. Thanks for that.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 9, 2014, 10:04 AM

Jul 2014

When somebody thinks that Catholics, Protestants, and Jews are all part of the "synagogue of Satan", well, I just think I'll pass. Reading between the lines of the mail I received and of their website, I was suspecting that something weird was up.

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