"The use of the word “recovery” does not refer to a person’s recovery from alcoholism or other substance abuse. Rather, it refers to the regaining of matters of biblical truth, Christian experience, and church practice that have been lost over time because of misunderstanding, mistranslation, or misinterpretation under the influences of history, tradition, and even religion.
Particularly since Martin Luther’s time, God has been working to recover these truths, such as Luther’s revelation that justification is by faith (Rom. 1:16-17). Now for the first time, these recovered truths are brought together in a unique study Bible-the New Testament Recovery Version."
That pretty much tells me all I need to know. The standard "God’s original Church went apostate, and His originally revealed Truth became lost and corrupted until God made revelation to Martin Luther and the Reformers to reestablish His “true church”.
Basically, Christ was crucified, and the “true church” had to lay dormant for about 70 years waiting for God to finish revealing his Truth through the authors of the various books of Sacred Scripture. This “true church” then had the gates of hell prevail against it by almost immediately falling into apostacy and distorting God’s revealed Truth. God waited well over a millenia (about 1300 years) before the second savior of the world (Martin Luther) received God’s revelation, which is a little problematic since “the Bible is God’s only revelation…”, and I am certain included something about 7 extra books.
Oh well…I’m sure it makes sense to them.
These guys were wacko cult leaders in Taiwan and the US in the early 1900’s. The website says that the Recovery Bible incorporates ideas, footnotes and comments from Witness Lee.