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OK I know that this is not a Catholic tranlation but is “The Living Bible” trustable? It used to be my great-great-grandma’s and I inherited it. I will keep it eaither way, but I want to know if I could still use it for study. Thanks!
 
I use to use the Living Bible at times, when I was a Baptist. It is a paraphrase Bible, not actually a translation. It is biased, which any paraphrase or dynamic equivilent is baised to the editor. I would not “study” from it as a reliable version, but you could use it to give you another option to help clarify. But as a Catholic be descerning.
 
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is “The Living Bible” trustable?
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It is a paraphrase. The translator did not intend for it to be a Study Bible. (My understanding is that he was very upset when it was published as a Study Bible.)
It used to be my great-great-grandma’s
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Great-Great-Grandmother?

Are we talking about the same translation here?
Copyright 1971 Tyndale House in the US, and Coverdale House in the UK. Translator: Kenneth Taylor.
but I want to know if I could still use it for study.
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Does 1 Samuel 20: 30 read:
"Saul boiled with rage. “You son of a *****!” he yelled at him. “Do you think I don’t know that you want this son of a nobody to be king in your place, shaming yourself and your mother? As long as that fellow is alive, you’ll never be king. Now go and get him so I can kill him!”

Verses like that can shock people, during a group Bible Study. Use it conjunction with several translations.

It isn’t meant as one’s only Bible, much less to use for deep Bible study. It is designed to get people familiar with the Bible, prior to using a real translation.

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jblake said:
It is a paraphrase. The translator did not intend for it to be a Study Bible. (My understanding is that he was very upset when it was published as a Study Bible.)

Great-Great-Grandmother?

Are we talking about the same translation here?
Copyright 1971 Tyndale House in the US, and Coverdale House in the UK. Translator: Kenneth Taylor.

Does 1 Samuel 20: 30 read:
"Saul boiled with rage. “You son of a *****!” he yelled at him. “Do you think I don’t know that you want this son of a nobody to be king in your place, shaming yourself and your mother? As long as that fellow is alive, you’ll never be king. Now go and get him so I can kill him!”

Verses like that can shock people, during a group Bible Study. Use it conjunction with several translations.

It isn’t meant as one’s only Bible, much less to use for deep Bible study. It is designed to get people familiar with the Bible, prior to using a real translation.

xan

jonathon
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The LB is good at reminding us that the people in the Bible were living human beings, & not “sacred personages” - I think it is good for us to be shocked into realising that.​

As a translation, it distorts the meaning of much of the NT by making the Apostles sound like Us Evangelical salvationist preachers. They thought in very different concepts from us - & the LB is apt to disguise this. And if we don’t can’t find out how they thought, we won’t be able to understand what they thought, let alone re-state their teaching in a way our contemporaries can understand.
 
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Great-Great-Grandmother?

Are we talking about the same translation here?
Copyright 1971 Tyndale House in the US, and Coverdale House in the UK. Translator: Kenneth Taylor.
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Sorry, my great-grandmother
 
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