solafide (https://solafide.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Aquila Report - The Loss of the Historical Adam an...":
Translation issues aside, just the business end of things should make people NOT want to use the NIV 2011. To be told that you must update to the new translation for copyright reasons is telling enough. If you owned a restaurant and used a cookbook from 1984 to prepare your meals, would you allow the publisher to come in and tell you that you can no longer use that cookbook and must buy the new one (that has the added bonus of changing your best recipes)? No.
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As has been pointed out here and elsewhere, the NIV 2011 is nothing more than a cash cow for the rights holders, worse, it is simply a rebranded and lightly revised TNIV (the "fixed" version that was heralded to us in 2005). If the Bible translation you had produced was as accurate and as to the mark as originally claimed, why in God’s name would you bow to popular pressure within less than a decade of announcing your work to the sound of glory and trumpets, and go off and fix the bits you had already fixed? Especially if the fixes you had brought in to fix had fixed the problem that you had thought was there in the first place. If you take my meaning. “I’m terribly sorry sir, this new improved Cadillac that we sold you has proven to be so unpopular, we are going to rename the older Cadillac as a newer, improved Cadillac and junk the one we sold you.”
They have also called the NIV 2011 a minor revision. If a minor revision can cause this much strife, what is going to happen when more changes get shoved in our direction? For example: What happens 10 years down the road when we start seeing the "50th Anniversary Edition" and are told we can't use the 2011 anymore?
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GJ - Nothing reveals the radicalism of WELS more than this push for the New NIV paraphrase. The LCMS and the Little Sect on the Prairie won't have it.
The business end means WELS will lock into the NNIV franchise and be stuck with all the revisions that will continue to flow from this idiotic, obscene, apostate paraphrase.
The Southern Babtists, considered by WELS to be the gold standard in doctrine, voted against the NNIV and did not even want it displayed in their book stores.
This also shows how the tide turns with an election or two. DP Glaeske hated the NNIV so much that he spoke against it at the last convention. He retired and Kudu Don Patterson replaced him. No one is more Church and Changey than Patterson, in spite of his denials.
Patterson attended the "final" Church and Change conference, which was a big joke, because they manage and lead every WELS gathering now, from Martin Luther College Evangelism Day to the Mequon faculty.
America is a democracy where we elect tyrants. Only 16% wanted the NNIV in a carefully crafted and manipulated survey. So WELS did a "study" where the mouthpieces were hand-picked to sing for their supper. And they did.
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