New Bible draws critics of gender-neutral language - Yahoo! News
AP – Copies of the New International Version Bible is displayed in a book store on Thursday, March 17, 2011, …
– Thu Mar 17, 11:20 pm ET
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In the old translation of the world's most popular Bible, John the Evangelist declares: "If anyone says, 'I love God,' yet hates his brother, he is a liar." Make that "brother or sister" in a new translation that includes more gender-neutral language and is drawing criticism from some conservatives who argue the changes can alter the theological message.
The 2011 translation of the New International Version Bible, or NIV, does not change pronouns referring to God, who remains "He" and "the Father." But it does aim to avoid using "he" or "him" as the default reference to an unspecified person.
The NIV Bible is used by many of the largest Protestant faiths. The translation comes from an independent group of biblical scholars that has been meeting yearly since 1965 to discuss advances in biblical scholarship and changes in English usage.
Before the new translation even hit stores, it drew opposition from the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, an organization that believes women should submit to their husbands in the home and only men can hold some leadership roles in the church.
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GJ - The current FICL, I am told, says WELS is going for the new NIV.
WELS has been hag-ridden ever since they lost Dorothy Sonntag, Richard Stadler, and Iver Johnson.
To make up for this incalculable loss, they created a feminist hymnal with feminist Creeds, plus various lobbying groups to make WELS safe for women's ordination. The Brug monstrosity has once again verified that women's ordination is A-OK. He already published that many years ago, but it is direct from God when such opinions appear in a hard-bound book from NPH.
